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GDP:
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purchasing power parity - $38.29 billion (2003 est.)
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GDP - real growth rate:
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3% (2003 est.)
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GDP - per capita:
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purchasing power parity - $1,400 (2003 est.)
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GDP - composition by sector:
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agriculture: 40%
industry: 20%
services: 40% (2002 est.)
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Population below poverty line:
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42% (1995-96)
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Household income or consumption by percentage share:
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lowest 10%: 3.2%
highest 10%: 29.8% (1995-96)
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Distribution of family income - Gini index:
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36.7 (FY95/96)
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Inflation rate (consumer prices):
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2.9% (2002 est.)
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Labor force:
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10 million
note: severe lack of skilled labor (1996 est.)
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Labor force - by occupation:
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agriculture 81%, industry 3%, services 16%
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Unemployment rate:
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47% (2001 est.)
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Budget:
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revenues: $665 million
expenditures: $1.1 billion, including capital expenditures of NA (FY99/00 est.)
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Industries:
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tourism, carpet, textile; small rice, jute, sugar, and oilseed mills; cigarette; cement and brick production
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Industrial production growth rate:
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8.7% (FY99/00)
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Electricity - production:
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1.755 billion kWh (2001)
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Electricity - production by source:
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fossil fuel: 8.5%
hydro: 91.5%
other: 0% (2001)
nuclear: 0%
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Electricity - consumption:
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1.764 billion kWh (2001)
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Electricity - exports:
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95 million kWh (2001)
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Electricity - imports:
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227 million kWh (2001)
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Oil - production:
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0 bbl/day (2001 est.)
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Oil - consumption:
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16,000 bbl/day (2001 est.)
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Oil - exports:
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NA (2001)
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Oil - imports:
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NA (2001)
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Agriculture - products:
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rice, corn, wheat, sugarcane, root crops; milk, water buffalo meat
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Exports:
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$568 million f.o.b., but does not include unrecorded border trade with India (2002 est.)
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Exports - commodities:
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carpets, clothing, leather goods, jute goods, grain
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Exports - partners:
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India 50.5%, US 26%, Germany 6.6% (2003 est.)
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Imports:
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$1.419 billion f.o.b. (2002 est.)
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Imports - commodities:
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gold, machinery and equipment, petroleum products, fertilizer
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Imports - partners:
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India 22.9%, China 13.5%, UAE 12.6%, Singapore 7.1%, Saudi Arabia 5.5%, Kuwait 4.6% (2003 est.)
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Debt - external:
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$2.7 billion (2001)
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Economic aid - recipient:
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$424 million (FY00/01)
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Currency code:
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NPR
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Fiscal year:
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16 July - 15 July
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