uncertain policies in areas like industrial licensing, trade, labor,and finance continue to hamper foreign investment.
GDP (purchasing power parity):
$2.9 billion (2003 est.)
GDP - real growth rate:
5.3% (2003 est.)
GDP - per capita:
purchasing power parity - $1,400 (2003 est.)
GDP - composition by sector: agriculture: 45% industry: 10% services: 45% (2002 est.)
Labor force: NA note: massive lack of skilled labor
Labor force - by occupation:
agriculture 93%, industry and commerce 2%, services 5%
Unemployment rate:
NA
Population below poverty line:
NA
Household income or consumption by percentage share:
lowest 10%: NA
highest 10%: NA
Inflation rate (consumer prices):
3% (2002 est.)
Budget:
revenues: $146 million
expenditures: $152 million, including capital expenditures of NA
note: the government of India finances nearly three-fifths of
Bhutan's budget expenditures (FY95/96 est.)
Agriculture - products:
rice, corn, root crops, citrus, foodgrains; dairy products, eggs
Industries:
cement, wood products, processed fruits, alcoholic beverages,
calcium carbide
Industrial production growth rate:
9.3% (1996 est.)
Electricity - production:
2.001 billion kWh (2002)
Electricity - production by source: fossil fuel: 0.1% hydro: 99.9% nuclear: 0% other: 0% (2001)
Electricity - consumption:
312.9 million kWh (2002)
Electricity - exports:
1.56 billion kWh (2002)
Electricity - imports:
12 million kWh (2002)
Oil - production:
0 bbl/day (2001 est.)
Oil - consumption:
1,020 bbl/day (2001 est.)
Oil - exports:
NA
Oil - imports:
NA
Exports:
$154 million f.o.b. (2000 est.)
Exports - commodities:
electricity (to India), cardamom, gypsum, timber, handicrafts,
cement, fruit, precious stones, spices
Exports - partners:
Bangladesh 47.4%, Japan 30.2%, France 3.4% (2004)
Imports:
$196 million c.i.f. (2000 est.)
Imports - commodities:
fuel and lubricants, grain, machinery and parts, vehicles, fabrics,
rice
Imports - partners:
Germany 65.4%, Japan 14.3%, Austria 6.8%, UK 4.5% (2004)
Debt - external:
$245 million (2000)
Economic aid - recipient:
substantial aid from India and other nations
Currency (code):
ngultrum (BTN); Indian rupee (INR)
Currency code:
BTN; INR
Exchange rates:
ngultrum per US dollar - 45.317 (2004), 46.583 (2003), 48.61
(2002), 47.186 (2001), 44.942 (2000)
Fiscal year:
1 July - 30 June
Communications Bhutan
Telephones - main lines in use:
25,200 (2003)
Telephones - mobile cellular:
22,000 (2005)
Telephone system:
general assessment: telecommunications facilities are poor
domestic: very low tele-density; domestic service is very poor
especially in rural areas; wireless service available since 2003
international: country code - 975; international telephone and
telegraph service via landline and microwave relay through India;
satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean) (2005)
Radio broadcast stations:
AM 0, FM 1, shortwave 1 (2004)
Radios:
37,000 (1997)
Television broadcast stations:
1 (2005)
Televisions:
11,000 (1997)
Internet country code:
.bt
Internet hosts:
985 (2003)
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