Bangladesh/

The economy has grown 5-6% per year since 1996 despite political instability, poor infrastructure, corruption, insufficient power supplies, and slow implementation of economic reforms. Bangladesh remains a poor, overpopulated, and inefficiently-governed nation. Although more than half of GDP is generated through the service sector, 45% of Bangladeshis are employed in the agriculture sector, with rice as the single-most-important product. Bangladesh’s growth was resilient during the 2008-09 global financial crisis and recession. Garment exports, totaling $12.3 billion in FY09 and remittances from overseas Bangladeshis totaling $9.7 billion in FY09 accounted for almost 25% of GDP.

$259.3 billion (2010 est.)

$244.6 billion (2009 est.)

$231.4 billion (2008 est.)

$105.4 billion (2010 est.)

6% (2010 est.)

5.7% (2009 est.)

6% (2008 est.)

$1,700 (2010 est.)

$1,600 (2009 est.)

$1,500 (2008 est.)

73.87 million

5.1% (2010 est.)

5.1% (2009 est.)

36.3% (2008 est.)

33.2 (2005)

33.6 (1996)

23.8% of GDP (2010 est.)

39.3% of GDP (2010 est.)

39.7% of GDP (2009 est.)

8.1% (2010 est.)

5.4% (2009 est.)

5% (31 October 2010)

5% (31 December 2008)

14.6% (31 December 2009 est.)

16.38% (31 December 2008 est.)

$13.98 billion (31 December 2010 est)

$10.92 billion (31 December 2009 est)

$57.21 billion (31 December 2010 est.)

$63.03 billion (31 December 2009)

$62.2 billion (31 December 2010 est.)

$53.77 billion (31 December 2009 est.)

$7.068 billion (31 December 2009)

$6.671 billion (31 December 2008)

$6.793 billion (31 December 2007)

rice, jute, tea, wheat, sugarcane, potatoes, tobacco, pulses, oilseeds, spices, fruit; beef, milk, poultry

cotton textiles, jute, garments, tea processing, paper newsprint, cement, chemical fertilizer, light engineering, sugar

6.4% (2010 est.)

25.62 billion kWh (2007 est.)

23.94 billion kWh (2007 est.)

0 kWh (2008 est.)

0 kWh (2008 est.)

5,733 bbl/day (2009 est.)

96,000 bbl/day (2009 est.)

2,612 bbl/day (2007 est.)

87,660 bbl/day (2007 est.)

28 million bbl (1 January 2010 est.)

19.7 billion cu m (2008 est.)

19.7 billion cu m (2008 est.)

0 cu m (2008 est.)

0 cu m (2008 est.)

195.4 billion cu m (1 January 2010 est.)

$3.734 billion (2010)

$2.416 billion (2009)

$16.24 billion (2010)

$15.58 billion (2009)

garments, frozen fish and seafood, jute and jute goods, leather

US 22.5%, Germany 14.2%, UK 9.6%, France 7%, Netherlands 6.4% (2009)

$21.34 billion (2010)

$20.3 billion (2009)

machinery and equipment, chemicals, iron and steel, textiles, foodstuffs, petroleum products, cement

China 16.16%, India 12.61%, Singapore 7.55%, Japan 4.63%, Malaysia 4.46% (2009)

$10.79 billion (31 December 2010 est.)

$10.34 billion (31 December 2009 est.)

$24.46 billion (31 December 2010 est.)

$24.22 billion (31 December 2009 est.)

$6.72 billion (31 December 2010 est.)

$5.617 billion (31 December 2009 est.)

$82 million (31 December 2010 est.)

$81 million (31 December 2009 est.)

taka (BDT) per US dollar - 70.59 (2010), 69.039 (2009), 68.554 (2008), 69.893 (2007), 69.031 (2006)