Population below poverty line:
42% (1995-96)
Household income or consumption by percentage share: lowest 10%: 3.2% highest 10%: 29.8% (1995-96)
Distribution of family income - Gini index:
36.7 (FY95/96)
Inflation rate (consumer prices):
2.9% (2002 est.)
Budget:
revenues: $665 million
expenditures: $1.1 billion, including capital expenditures of NA
(FY99/00 est.)
Agriculture - products:
rice, corn, wheat, sugarcane, root crops; milk, water buffalo meat
Industries:
tourism, carpet, textile; small rice, jute, sugar, and oilseed
mills; cigarette; cement and brick production
Industrial production growth rate:
8.7% (FY99/00)
Electricity - production:
2.054 billion kWh (2002)
Electricity - production by source: fossil fuel: 8.5% hydro: 91.5% nuclear: 0% other: 0% (2001)