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Agriculture > products rice, jute, tea, wheat, sugarcane, potatoes, tobacco, pulses, oilseeds, spices, fruit; beef, milk, poultry
Aid as % of GDP	2.5%		[63rd of 129]
Source: CIA World Factbook, 28 July 2005
Debt > External	$21,230,000,000.00		[67th of 136]
Source: calculated on the basis of data on ODA from OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development), Development Assistance Committee. 2002. DAC Online. Database. Paris.; and data on GDP from World Bank. 2002. World Development Indicators 2002. CD-ROM. Washington, DC
Distribution of family income > Gini index	33.4		[22nd of 43]
Source: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008
Economic freedom	1.5		[121st of 156]
Source: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008
Economy > Overview The economy has grown 5-6% over the past few years despite inefficient state-owned enterprises, delays in exploiting natural gas resources, 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, nearly two-thirds of Bangladeshis are employed in the agriculture sector, with rice as the single-most-important product. Garment exports and remittances from Bangladeshis working overseas, mainly in the Middle East and East Asia, fuel economic growth.
Source: The Heritage Foundation
Exports	$12,450,000,000.00		[76th of 189]
Source: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008
GDP	$61,960,960,000.00		[52nd of 203]
Source: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008
GDP > PPP	$263,434,000,000.00		[32nd of 163]
Source: World Development Indicators database and CIA World Factbook
GDP > Real growth rate	6.3%		[65th of 198]
Source: World Bank. 2005. World Development Indicators 2005.
GDP per capita in 1950	$551.00		[50th of 52]
Source: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008
GDP per capita in 1973	$478.00		[54th of 52]
Source: Angus Maddison
GINI index	33.4		[27th of 40]
Source: Angus Maddison
Gross National Income	$48,616,900,000.00		[46th of 172]
Source: World Development Indicators database
Human Development Index	0.52		[140th of 178]
Income category	Low income
Source: Human Development Report 2006, United Nations Development Programme
Income distribution > Richest 10%	28.6%		[67th of 114]
Source:
Population below poverty line	45%		[17th of 46]
Source: World Bank. 2002. World Development Indicators 2002. CD-ROM. Washington, DC
Poverty > Share of all poor people	3.49 % of world's poor		[5th of 80]
Source: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008
Public debt	37.4 % of GDP		[58th of 121]
Source: Country Responsibilities in Achieving the Millenium Development Goals", April 8 2003, by Janice Poling

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