5%

Unemployment rate:

Population below poverty line:
31.7% (2003)

Household income or consumption by percentage share:
lowest 10%: NA%
highest 10%: NA%

Inflation rate (consumer prices):
7% (2005 est.)

Budget:
revenues: $346.6 million
expenditures: including capital expenditures of $NA
note: the government of India finances nearly three-fifths of
Bhutan's budget expenditures (2004)

Public debt:
81.4% of GDP (2004)

Agriculture - products:
rice, corn, root crops, citrus, foodgrains; dairy products, eggs

Industries:
cement, wood products, processed fruits, alcoholic beverages,
calcium carbide, tourism

Industrial production growth rate:
9.3% (1996 est.)

Electricity - production:
2.05 billion kWh (2004)

Electricity - production by source:
fossil fuel: 0.1%
hydro: 99.9%
nuclear: 0%
other: 0% (2001)

Electricity - consumption:
526.5 million kWh (2004)

Electricity - exports:
1.4 billion kWh (2004)

Electricity - imports:
20 million kWh (2004)

Oil - production:
0 bbl/day (2004)

Oil - consumption:
1,160 bbl/day (2004 est.)

Oil - exports:
NA bbl/day (2001)

Oil - imports:
NA bbl/day (2001)

Natural gas - production:
0 cu m (2004 est.)

Natural gas - consumption:
0 cu m (2004 est.)

Exports:
$154 million f.o.b. (2000 est.)

Exports - commodities:
electricity (to India), cardamom, gypsum, timber, handicrafts,
cement, fruit, precious stones, spices

Exports - partners:
Japan 32.3%, Germany 13.2%, France 13.1%, South Korea 7.6%, US
7.5%, Thailand 5.6%, Italy 5% (2005)

Imports:
$196 million c.i.f. (2000 est.)

Imports - commodities:
fuel and lubricants, grain, aircraft, machinery and parts,
vehicles, fabrics, rice

Imports - partners:
Hong Kong 66.6%, Mexico 20.2%, France 3.8% (2005)

Debt - external:
$593 million (2004)

Economic aid - recipient:
$78 million substantial aid from India and other nations (2004)

Currency (code):
ngultrum (BTN); Indian rupee (INR)

Currency code:
BTN; INR

Exchange rates:
ngultrum per US dollar - 44.101 (2006), 44.101 (2005), 45.317
(2004), 46.583 (2003), 48.61 (2002)
note: the ngultrum is pegged to the Indian rupee

Fiscal year:
1 July - 30 June

Communications Bhutan

Telephones - main lines in use:
32,700 (2005)

Telephones - mobile cellular:
37,800 (2005)

Telephone system:
general assessment: telecommunicat