Editing Economy of Nepal (section)

==Statistics==

'''GDP:'''  purchasing power parity - $84.37 Billion (2018 est.)<ref name="indexmundi.com">{{Cite web|url=https://www.indexmundi.com/nepal/economy_profile.html|title=Nepal Economy Profile 2019|website=www.indexmundi.com}}</ref>{{Dubious|date=December 2019}}

'''GDP - real growth rate:''' 21.77% (2017)

'''GDP - per capita:'''  purchasing power parity (current international $) - $2700 (2017 est.)
'''GDP - composition by sector:'''
<br />''agriculture:'' 17%
<br />''industry:''    13.5%
<br />''services:''    60.5% (2017 est.)
<br />''tourism:''     9%

'''Population below poverty line:''' 25.6% (2017/2018)<ref name="2017/2018 economic survey, Nepal ministry of finance">https://mof.gov.np/uploads/document/file/for%20web_Economic%20Survey%202075%20Full%20Final%20for%20WEB%20_20180914091500.pdf {{Bare URL PDF|date=March 2022}}</ref>

'''Household income or consumption by percentage share:'''
<br />''lowest 10%:''   3.2%
<br />''highest 10%:'' 29.8% (1995–96)

'''Inflation rate (consumer prices):'''  4.5% (2017)

'''Labour force:''' 4 million (2016 est.) {{Citation needed|date=December 2021}}

'''Labor force - by occupation:''' agriculture 19%, services 69%, industry 12% (2014 est.)

'''Unemployment rate:'''  1.47% (2017 est.)

'''Budget:'''
<br />''revenues:'' $5.954 billion
<br />''expenditures:'' $5.974 billion, including capital expenditures of $NA (2017 est.)

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

'''Industrial production growth rate:'''  10.9% (2017 est.):

'''Electricity - production:'''  41,083 GWh (2017)

'''Electricity - production by source:'''
<br />''fossil fuel:'' 7.5%
<br />''hydro:''      91.5%
<br />''nuclear:''        0.3%
<br />''other:''          0.7% (2001)

'''Available energy:'''6957.73 GWh (2017)
'''NEA Hydro:'''2290.78 GWh (2014)
'''NEA Thermal:'''9.56 GWh (2014)
'''purchase (total):'''2331.17 GWh (2014)
'''India (purchase):'''2175.04 GWh (2017)
'''Nepal (IPP):'''1258.94 GWh (2014)

'''Electricity - consumption:'''  4,776.53 GWh (2017)

'''Electricity - exports:'''  856 GWh (2001)
'''Electricity - imports:'''  12 GWh (2001)

'''Oil - production:'''  {{convert|0|oilbbl/d}} (2001 est.)

'''Oil - consumption:''' {{convert|1600|oilbbl/d}} 2001

'''Agriculture - products:'''
Fruits and vegetables, mostly: [[apple]]s, [[pear]]s, [[tomatoes]], [[peach]]es, [[nectarine]]s, [[potato]]es, [[rice]], [[maize]], [[wheat]], [[sugarcane]], [[root crops]], [[milk]], and [[buffalo meat]].

'''Exports:'''  $1.29 billion f.o.b., but does not include unrecorded border trade with [[India]] (2020 est.)

'''Exports - commodities:''' [[carpet]]s, clothing, [[leather]] goods, [[jute]] goods, [[cereal|grain]]

'''Exports - partners:''' [[India]] 56.6%, [[United States|US]] 11.5%, [[Turkey]] 9.2% (2016 est.)

'''Imports:'''  $1.6 billion f.o.b. (2021 est.)

'''Imports - commodities:''' [[gold]], machinery and equipment, [[petroleum]] products, electrical goods, medicine

'''Imports - partners:'''  India 70.1%, China 10.3%, [[United Arab Emirates|UAE]] 2.6%, [[Singapore]] 2.1%, [[Saudi Arabia]] 1.2%. (2016 est.)

'''Debt - external:'''  $9.1 billion (2022 est.)

'''Economic aid - recipient:'''  [https://hamroblogger.com/ $2 billion] (FY 2019/20)

'''Currency:''' 1 Nepali [[rupee]] (NPR) = 100 paisa

'''Fiscal year:''' 16 July - 15 July