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| Introduction - Nepal: | | Location - Nepal: | | People - Nepal: | | Government - Nepal: | | Economy - Nepal: | Economy overview | Nepal is among the poorest and least developed countries in the world with almost one-third of its population living below the poverty line. Agriculture is the mainstay of the economy, providing a livelihood for three-fourths of the population and accounting for 38% of GDP. Industrial activity mainly involves the processing of agricultural produce including jute, sugarcane, tobacco, and grain. Security concerns relating to the Maoist conflict have led to a decrease in tourism, a key source of foreign exchange. Nepal has considerable scope for exploiting its potential in hydropower and tourism, areas of recent foreign investment interest. Prospects for foreign trade or investment in other sectors will remain poor, however, because of the small size of the economy, its technological backwardness, its remoteness, its landlocked geographic location, its civil strife, and its susceptibility to natural disaster. | | Gdp purchasing power parity | $41.18 billion (2006 est.) | | Gdp official exchange rate | $6.948 billion (2006 est.) | | Gdp real growth rate | 1.9% (2006 est.) | | Gdp per capita ppp | $1,500 (2006 est.) | | Gdp composition by sector | agriculture: 38%
industry: 20%
services: 42% (FY05/06 est.) | | Labor force | 11.11 million
note: severe lack of skilled labor (2006 est.) | | Labor force by occupation | agriculture: 76%
industry: 6%
services: 18% (2004 est.) | | Unemployment rate | 42% (2004 est.) | | Population below poverty line | 31% (FY03/04) | | Household income or consumption by percentage share | lowest 10%: 2.6%
highest 10%: 39.1% (2003-2004) | | Distribution of family income gini index | 37.7 (FY04/05) | | Inflation rate consumer prices | 8.6% (November 2006 est.) | | Budget | revenues: $1.153 billion
expenditures: $1.927 billion; including capital expenditures of $NA (FY06/07) | | Agriculture products | rice, corn, wheat, sugarcane, jute, root crops; milk, water buffalo meat | | Industries | tourism, carpet, textile; small rice, jute, sugar, and oilseed mills; cigarettes, cement and brick production | | Industrial production growth rate | 2.2% (FY05/06) | | Electricity production | 2.511 billion kWh (2006) | | Electricity consumption | 1.96 billion kWh (2006) | | Electricity exports | 101 million kWh (2006) | | Electricity imports | 266 million kWh (2006) | | Oil production | 0 bbl/day (2005 est.) | | Oil consumption | 11,550 bbl/day (2006 est.) | | Oil exports | NA bbl/day | | Oil imports | 11,530 bbl/day (2006 est.) | | Oil proved reserves | 0 bbl | | Natural gas production | 0 cu m (2006 est.) | | Natural gas consumption | 0 cu m (2006 est.) | | Exports | $822 million f.o.b.; note - does not include unrecorded border trade with India (2005 est.) | | Exports commodities | carpets, clothing, leather goods, jute goods, grain | | Exports partners | India 59.3%, US 14%, Germany 5.9% (2006) | | Imports | $2 billion f.o.b. (2005 est.) | | Imports commodities | gold, machinery and equipment, petroleum products, fertilizer | | Imports partners | India 49%, China 12.4%, UAE 11.7%, Saudi Arabia 5.2%, Kuwait 4.4% (2006) | | Debt external | $3.07 billion (March 2006) | | Economic aid recipient | $533 million (FY04/05) | | Currency code | Nepalese rupee (NPR) | | Exchange rates | Nepalese rupees per US dollar - 72.446 (2006), 72.16 (2005), 73.674 (2004), 76.141 (2003), 77.877 (2002) | |
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