rices):
9.5% (2004 est.)

Investment (gross fixed):
36.6% of GDP (2004 est.)

Budget:
revenues: $10.66 billion
expenditures: $13.09 billion, including capital expenditures of $1.8
billion (2004 est.)

Public debt:
65.9% of GDP (2004 est.)

Agriculture - products:
paddy rice, coffee, fish and seafood, rubber, cotton, tea, pepper,
soybeans, cashews, sugar cane, peanuts, bananas, poultry

Industries:
food processing, garments, shoes, machine-building, mining, cement,
chemical fertilizer, glass, tires, oil, coal, steel, paper

Industrial production growth rate:
16% (2004 est.)

Electricity - production:
34.48 billion kWh (2002)

Electricity - production by source:
fossil fuel: 43.7%
hydro: 56.3%
nuclear: 0%
other: 0% (2001)

Electricity - consumption:
32.06 billion kWh (2002)

Electricity - exports:
0 kWh (2002)

Electricity - imports:
0 kWh (2002)

Oil - production:
359,400 bbl/day (2004 est.)

Oil - consumption:
185,000 bbl/day (2001 est.)

Oil - exports:
NA

Oil - imports:
NA

Oil - proved reserves:
650 million bbl (2004 est.)

Natural gas - production:
1.3 billion cu m (2001 est.)

Natural gas - consumption:
1.3 billion cu m (2001 est.)

Natural gas - exports:
0 cu m (2001 est.)

Natural gas - imports:
0 cu m (2001 est.)

Natural gas - proved reserves:
192.6 billion cu m (2004)

Current account balance:
$-2.061 billion (2004 est.)

Exports:
$23.72 billion f.o.b. (2004 est.)

Exports - commodities:
crude oil, marine products, rice, coffee, rubber, tea, garments,
shoes

Exports - partners:
US 20.2%, Japan 13.6%, China 9%, Australia 7%, Germany 5.9%,
Singapore 4.8%, UK 4.6% (2004)

Imports:
$26.31 billion f.o.b. (2004 est.)

Imports - commodities:
machinery and equipment, petroleum products, fertilizer, steel
products, raw cotton, grain, cement, motorcycles

Imports - partners:
China 13.7%, Taiwan 11.3%, South Korea 10.8%, Japan 10.5%,
Singapore 10.5%, Thailand 6.2%, Hong Kong 4% (2004)

Reserves of foreign exchange and gold:
$6.51 billion (2004 est.)

Debt - external:
$16.55 billion (2004 est.)

Economic aid - recipient:
$2.8 billion in credits and grants pledged by international donors
for 2000 (2004)

Currency (code):
dong (VND)

Currency code:
VND

Exchange rates:
dong per US dollar - 15,746 (2004), 15,510 (2003), 15,280 (2002),
14,725 (2001), 14,