Macro-economic

This is a chart of trend of gross domestic product of Nepal at market prices estimated by the International Monetary Fund and EconStats with figures in millions of Nepalese Rupees.Year Gross Domestic Product
1960 3,870
1965 5,602
1970 8,768
1975 16,571
1980 23,350
1985 46,586
1990 103,415
1995 219,174
2000 379,488

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Statistics

GDP: purchasing power parity - $31.09 billion (2008 est.)

GDP - real growth rate: 5.6% (2008 est.)

GDP - per capita: purchasing power parity - $1,100 (2008 est.)

GDP - composition by sector:
agriculture: 40%
industry: 20%
services: 40% (2002 est.)

Population below poverty line: 33% (2007)

Household income or consumption by percentage share:
lowest 10%: 3.2%
highest 10%: 29.8% (1995–96)

Inflation rate (consumer prices): 2.9% (2002 est.)

Labour force: 10 million (1996 est.)
note: severe lack of skilled labour

Labor force - by occupation: agriculture 81%, services 16%, industry 3%

Unemployment rate: 47% (2001 est.)

Budget:
revenues: $665 million
expenditures: $1.1 billion, including capital expenditures of $NA (FY 99/00 est.)

Industries: tourism, carpet, textile; small rice, jute, sugar, and oilseed mills; cigarette; cement and brick production

Industrial production growth rate: 8.7% (FY 99/00)

Electricity - production: 1,755 GWh (2001)

Electricity - production by source:
fossil fuel: 8.5%
hydro: 91.5%
nuclear: 0%
other: 0% (2001)

Electricity - consumption: 1,764 GWh (2001)

Electricity - exports: 95 GWh (2001)

Electricity - imports: 227 GWh (2001)

Oil - production: 0 barrels per day (0 m3/d) (2001 est.)

Oil - consumption: 16,000 barrels per day (2,500 m3/d) 2001

Agriculture - products: rice, maize, wheat, sugarcane, root crops; milk, domestic buffalo meat

Exports: $568 million f.o.b., but does not include unrecorded border trade with India (2002 est.)

Exports - commodities: carpets, clothing, leather goods, jute goods, grain

Exports - partners: India 50.5%, US 26%, Germany 6.6% (2003 est.)

Imports: $1.419 billion f.o.b. (2002 est.)

Imports - commodities: gold, machinery and equipment, petroleum products, fertilizer

Imports - partners: India 82.9%, China 13.5%, UAE 2.6%, Singapore 2.1%, Saudi Arabia 1.2%. Debt - external: $2.7 billion (2001)

Economic aid - recipient: $424 million (FY 00/01)

Currency: 1 Nepalese rupee (NPR) = 100 paisa

Exchange rates: Nepalese rupees (NPR) per USD 1 – 64.20 (2007), 78.88 (2002), 74.95 (2001), 68.253 (1999), 65.976 (1998), 58.010 (1997), 56.692 (1996), 51.890 (1995)