ession is scheduled for
December 2005. The major economic challenge for Cambodia over the
next decade will be fashioning an economic environment in which the
private sector can create enough jobs to handle Cambodia's
demographic imbalance. More than 50% of the population is 20 years
or younger.

GDP (purchasing power parity):
$26.99 billion (2004 est.)

GDP - real growth rate:
5.4% (2004 est.)

GDP - per capita:
purchasing power parity - $2,000 (2004 est.)

GDP - composition by sector:
agriculture: 35%
industry: 30%
services: 35% (2004 est.)

Labor force:
7 million (2003 est.)

Labor force - by occupation:
agriculture 75% (2004 est.)

Unemployment rate:
2.5% (2000 est.)

Population below poverty line:
40% (2004 est.)

Household income or consumption by percentage share:
lowest 10%: 2.9%
highest 10%: 33.8% (1997)

Distribution of family income - Gini index:
40 (2004 est.)

Inflation rate (consumer prices):
3.1% (2004 est.)

Investment (gross fixed):
20.9% of GDP (2004 est.)

Budget:
revenues: $548.2 million
expenditures: $836.7 million, including capital expenditures of $291
million of which 75% was financed by external assistance (2004 est.)

Agriculture - products:
rice, rubber, corn, vegetables, cashews, tapioca

Industries:
tourism, garments, rice milling, fishing, wood and wood products,
rubber, cement, gem mining, textiles

Industrial production growth rate:
22% (2002 est.)

Electricity - production:
122 million kWh (2003)

Electricity - production by source:
fossil fuel: 65%
hydro: 35%
nuclear: 0%
other: 0% (2001)

Electricity - consumption:
100.6 million kWh (2002)

Electricity - exports:
0 kWh (2002)

Electricity - imports:
0 kWh (2002)

Oil - production:
0 bbl/day (2001 est.)

Oil - consumption:
7,200 bbl/day (2002 est.)

Oil - exports:
NA

Oil - imports:
NA

Current account balance:
$-316.2 million (2004 est.)

Exports:
$2.311 billion f.o.b. (2004 est.)

Exports - commodities:
Clothing, timber, rubber, rice, fish, tobacco, footwear

Exports - partners:
US 55.9%, Germany 11.7%, UK 6.9%, Vietnam 4.4%, Canada 4.2% (2004)

Imports:
$3.129 billion f.o.b. (2004 est.)

Imports - commodities:
petroleum products, cigarettes, gold, construction materials,
machinery, motor vehicles, pharmaceutical products

Imports - partners:
Thailand 22.5%, Hong Kong 14.