Burma Economy - 1986

GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES 

GDP: $6 5 billion (FY84/85, in current prices' $180 per capita· real growth rate 4.5% (FY84/85)

Natural resources oil, copper, asbestos, some marble, limestone; possibly chromium, gypsum

Agriculture: accounts for 64% of total employment and about 29% of GDP; main crops—paddy, pulses, sugarcane, beans, peanuts; almost 100% self-sufficient; most rice grown in deltaic land; an illegal producer of opium poppy and cannabis for the international drug trade

Fishing: catch 585,800 metric tons (1983)

Major industries: agricultural processing; textiles and footwear; wood and wood products; petroleum refining; mining of copper, tin, tungsten, iron

Electric power: 818,000 kW capacity (1985); 1.73 billion kWh produced (1985), 48 kWh per capita

Exports: $349.3 million (f.o.b., FY84/85); teak, rice, pulses, beans, base metals, ores

Imports $672.3 million (f o.b., FY84/85); machinery and transportation equipment, building materials, oil industry equipment

Major trade partners: exports—Singapore, Western Europe, China, UK Japan; imports—Japan, Western Europe, Singapore, UK

Budget: (FY84/85) $826.5 million est. revenue, $954 million est. expenditure

Monetary conversion rate· 8.5586 kyats=US$l(FY84/85)

Fiscal year-1 April-31 March

NOTE: The information regarding Burma 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 Burma 1986 information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Burma 1986 should be addressed to the CIA or the source cited on each page.