cotton textiles, jute, garments, tea processing, paper newsprint,cement, chemical fertilizer, light engineering, sugar
Industrial production growth rate:
6.5% (2004 est.)
Electricity - production:
16.45 billion kWh (2002)
Electricity - production by source: fossil fuel: 93.7% hydro: 6.3% nuclear: 0% other: 0% (2001)
Electricity - consumption:
15.3 billion kWh (2002)
Electricity - exports:
0 kWh (2002)
Electricity - imports:
0 kWh (2002)
Oil - production:
3,581 bbl/day (2001 est.)
Oil - consumption:
71,000 bbl/day (2001 est.)
Oil - exports:
NA
Oil - imports:
NA
Oil - proved reserves:
28.45 million bbl (1 January 2002)
Natural gas - production:
9.9 billion cu m (2001 est.)
Natural gas - consumption:
9.9 billion cu m (2001 est.)
Natural gas - exports:
0 cu m (2001 est.)
Natural gas - imports:
0 cu m (2001 est.)
Natural gas - proved reserves:
150.3 billion cu m (1 January 2002)
Current account balance:
$216.6 million (2004 est.)
Exports:
$7.478 billion (2004 est.)
Exports - commodities:
garments, jute and jute goods, leather, frozen fish and seafood
(2001)
Exports - partners:
US 22.4%, Germany 14.5%, UK 11.2%, France 6.9%, Italy 4% (2004)
Imports:
$10.03 billion (2004 est.)
Imports - commodities:
machinery and equipment, chemicals, iron and steel, textiles,
foodstuffs, petroleum products, cement (2000)
Imports - partners:
India 15.1%, China 12.5%, Singapore 7.5%, Kuwait 5.5%, Japan 5.3%,
Hong Kong 4.5% (2004)
Reserves of foreign exchange and gold:
$3 billion (2004 est.)
Debt - external:
$19.97 billion (2004 est.)
Economic aid - recipient:
$1.575 billion (2000 est.)
Currency (code):
taka (BDT)
Currency code:
BDT
Exchange rates:
taka per US dollar - 59.513 (2004), 58.15 (2003), 57.888 (2002),
55.807 (2001), 52.142 (2000)
Fiscal year:
1 July - 30 June
Communications Bangladesh
Telephones - main lines in use:
740,000 (2003)
Telephones - mobile cellular:
1.365 million (2003)
Telephone system:
general assessment: totally inadequate for a modern country
domestic: modernizing; introducing digital systems; trunk systems
include VHF and UHF microwave radio relay links, and some
fiber-optic cable in cities
international: country code - 880; satellite earth stations - 2
Intelsat (Indian Ocean); international radiotelephone communications
and landline service to neighboring countries (2000)
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 country code:
.bd
Internet hosts:
1 (2003)
Internet Service Providers (ISPs):
10 (2000)
Internet users:
243,000 (2003)
Transportation Bangladesh
Railways:
total: 2,706 km
broad gauge: 884 km 1.676-m gauge
narrow gauge: 1,822 km 1.000-m gauge (2004)
Highways:
total: 207,486 km
paved: 19,773 km
unpaved: 187,713 km (1999)
Waterways: 8,372 km note: includes 2,575 km main cargo
