 |
Economy |
|
|
| GDP
- Real Growth Rate |
2.6%
(2003) |
| GDP
- Per Capita |
Purchasing
power parity - $1,400 (2003) |
| GDP
- Composition by Sector |
Agriculture:
41%
Iindustry: 22%
Services: 37% (2003) |
| Population
Below Poverty Line |
42%
(2003) |
| Human
poverty index (%) |
41.9
(2003) |
| GDP
per capita US$ |
236
(2003) |
Manufactured
exports
(as % of merchandise exports) |
67
(2003) |
Total
debt service
As % of exports of
goods and services |
6.2
(2003) |
Public
expenditure
on health
(as % of GDP) |
0.9
(2003) |
Electricity
consumption
per capita (kilowatt-hours) |
56
(2003) |
Traditional
fuel
consumption
(as % of total
energy use) |
89.6
(2003) |
| Inflation
Rate (consumer prices) |
2.1%
(2003) |
| Labor
Force |
10
million
Note: severe lack of skilled labor (2003) |
| Labor
Force - by Occupation |
Agriculture
81%, services 16%, industry 3% (2003) |
| Unemployment
Rate |
47%
(2003) |
| Industries |
Tourism,
carpet, textile; small rice, jute, sugar, and oilseed mills;
cigarette; cement and brick production (2003) |
| Industrial
Production Growth Rate |
8.7%
(2003) |
| Electricity
- Production |
1.454
billion kWh (2003) |
| Agriculture
- Products |
Rice,
corn, wheat, sugarcane, root crops; milk, water buffalo meat
(2003) |
| Exports |
$757
million f.o.b., but does not include unrecorded border trade
with India (2003) |
| Exports
- commodities |
Carpets,
clothing, leather goods, jute goods, grain (2003) |
| Exports
- partners |
India
48%, US 26%, Germany 11% (2003) |
| Imports |
$1.6
billion (2003) |
| Imports
- commodities |
Gold,
machinery and equipment, petroleum products, fertilizer |
| Imports
- partners |
India
39%, Singapore 10%, China/Hong Kong 9%, (2003) |
| Debt
- external |
$2.55
billion (2003) |
| Currency |
Nepalese
rupee (NPR) |
| Currency
code |
NPR
|
| Fiscal
year |
16
July - 15 July |
| Source:www.worldbank.org
/www.geographyiq.com |
Brief
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