Population below poverty line:
25% (2000 est.)
Household income or consumption by percentage share: lowest 10%: 2.8% highest 10%: 32.4% (1998)
Inflation rate (consumer prices):
17.2% (2004 est.)
Investment (gross fixed):
10.2% of GDP (2004 est.)
Budget:
revenues: $474.9 million
expenditures: $955.5 million, including capital expenditures of $5.7
billion (2004 est.)
Agriculture - products:
rice, pulses, beans, sesame, groundnuts, sugarcane; hardwood; fish
and fish products
Industries:
agricultural processing; knit and woven apparel; wood and wood
products; copper, tin, tungsten, iron; construction materials;
pharmaceuticals; fertilizer; cement
Industrial production growth rate:
NA
Electricity - production:
5.068 billion kWh (2003)
Electricity - production by source: fossil fuel: 44.5% hydro: 43.4% nuclear: 0% other: 12.1% (2002)