The 2000 CIA World Factbook, page 129 by US CIA
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ty - production: 12.5 billion kWh (1999 est.)
Electricity - production by source: fossil fuel: 98% hydro: 2% nuclear: 0% other: 0% (1999)
Electricity - consumption: 11.039 billion kWh (1998)
Electricity - exports: 0 kWh (1999)
Electricity - imports: 0 kWh (1999)
Agriculture - products: rice, jute, tea, wheat, sugarcane, potatoes; beef, milk, poultry, tobacco, pulses, oilseeds, spices, fruit
Exports: $5.1 billion (1998)
Exports - commodities: garments, jute and jute goods, leather, frozen fish and seafood
Exports - partners: US 33%, Germany 10%, UK 9%, France 6%, Italy 5% (1997)
Imports: $8.01 billion (1998)
Imports - commodities: machinery and equipment, chemicals, iron and steel, textiles, raw cotton, food, crude oil and petroleum products, cement
Imports - partners: India 12%, China 9%, Japan 7%, Hong Kong 6%, South Korea 6% (1997)
Debt - external: $16.5 billion (1998)
Economic aid - recipient: $1.475 billion (FY96/97)
Currency: 1 taka (Tk) = 100 poisha
Exchange rates: taka (Tk) per US$1 - 51.000 (January 2000), 49.085 (1999), 46.906 (1998), 43.892 (1997), 41.794 (1996), 40.278 (1995)
Fiscal year: 1 July - 30 June
@Bangladesh:Communications
Telephones - main lines in use: 470,000 (1998)
Telephones - mobile cellular: 41,000 (1998)
Telephone system: domestic: modernizing; introducing digital systems; trunk systems include VHF and UHF microwave, and some fiber-optic cable in cities international: satellite earth stations - 2 Intelsat (Indian Ocean); international radiotelephone communications and landline service to neighboring countries
Radio broadcast stations: AM 12, FM 12, shortwave 2 (1999)
Radios: 6.15 million (1997)
Television broadcast stations: 15 (1999)
Televisions: 770,000 (1997)
Internet Service Providers (ISPs): 6 (1999)
@Bangladesh:Transportation
Railways: total: 2,745 km broad gauge: 923 km 1.676-m gauge narrow ga