The 2000 CIA World Factbook, page 629 by US CIA
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of software services. Lower production of some nonfoodgrain crops offset recovery in industrial production. Strong demand for India's high technology exports will bolster growth in 2000.
GDP: purchasing power parity - $1.805 trillion (1999 est.)
GDP - real growth rate: 5.5% (1999 est.)
GDP - per capita: purchasing power parity - $1,800 (1999 est.)
GDP - composition by sector: agriculture: 25% industry: 30% services: 45% (1997)
Population below poverty line: 35% (1994 est.)
Household income or consumption by percentage share: lowest 10%: 4.1% highest 10%: 25% (1994)
Inflation rate (consumer prices): 6.7% (1999 est.)
Labor force: NA
Labor force - by occupation: agriculture 67%, services 18%, industry 15% (1995 est.)
Unemployment rate: NA%
Budget: revenues: $35.8 billion expenditures: $66.3 billion, including capital expenditures of $15.9 billion (FY98/99 est.)
Industries: textiles, chemicals, food processing, steel, transportation equipment, cement, mining, petroleum, machinery
Industrial production growth rate: 6% (1999 est.)
Electricity - production: 448.6 billion kWh (FY98/99 est.)
Electricity - production by source: fossil fuel: 80.34% hydro: 17.08% nuclear: 2.38% other: 0.2% (1998)
Electricity - consumption: 416.346 billion kWh (1998)
Electricity - exports: 130 million kWh (1998)
Electricity - imports: 1.575 billion kWh (1998)
Agriculture - products: rice, wheat, oilseed, cotton, jute, tea, sugarcane, potatoes; cattle, water buffalo, sheep, goats, poultry; fish
Exports: $36.3 billion (f.o.b., 1999 est.)
Exports - commodities: textile goods, gems and jewelry, engineering goods, chemicals, leather manufactures
Exports - partners: US 21%, UK 6%, Germany 6%, Hong Kong 5%, Japan 5%, UAE 4% (1998)
Imports: $50.2 billion (f.o.b., 1999 est.)
Imports - commodities: crude oil and petroleum products, machinery, gems, fertilizer, chemicals
Imports -