Bangladesh Economy - 1986

GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES 

GNP: $11.6 billion (FY83, current prices), $130 per capita; 3.8% real growth (FY85)

Natural resources: natural gas, uranium

Agriculture: large-scale subsistence farming, heavily dependent on monsoon rainfall, main crops are jute, tea, and rice; grain, cotton, and oilseed shortages

Fishing: production 751,000 metric tons (1984)

Major industries: jute manufactures, food processing, and cotton textiles

Electric power: 1,118,000 kW capacity (1985); 4.21 billion kWh produced (1985), 42 kWh per capita

Exports · $811 million (f.o.b., FY84); raw and manufactured jute leather, tea

Imports: $2 3 billion (c.i.f., FY84); foodgrains, fuels, raw cotton, fertilizer, manufactured products

Major trade partners: exports—Middle East 29%, US 13%, Italy 8.6%, Japan 7.5%; imports—Middle East 17%, Western Europe 12%, Japan 11%, US 11% (FY84)

Budget: (FY86) current expenditures, $1 2 billion; capital expenditures, $14 billion

Monetary conversion rate: 32.15 takas=US$l (October 1985)

Fiscal year 1 July-30 June

NOTE: The information regarding Bangladesh on this page is re-published from the 1986 World Fact Book of the United States Central Intelligence Agency and other sources. No claims are made regarding the accuracy of Bangladesh 1986 information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Bangladesh 1986 should be addressed to the CIA or the source cited on each page.