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Home > Back Issue(Issue No.3, Vol No.4) > Statistics

Statistics
1-15 February 2004

(These statistics have been taken from different articles published in newspapers) 

  • Foreign direct investment into China last year rose to $53.5 billion.
  • Asian foreign exchange reserves rose by a third in 2003 to a record $1.9 trillion.
  • Britain's trade deficit widened to 4.4 billion pounds in November 2003.
  • Traffic accidents in Pakistan claimed 45,000 lives in 90,000 road accidents during last 9 years.
  • Customs and excise collections in India during the first nine months of the current fiscal increased by 9.3% to Rs 993 billion.
  • Mercedes-Benz will recall 33000 potentially faulty sedans sold globally.
  • The intra-Saarc trade is 3.8% of the region's total trade. The trade between India and Pakistan, through official channels, is $200 million a year.
  • Nearly 290 regional trade agreements have been notified to GATT/WTO. Of these, more than 190 are estimated to be in force.
  • The number of bilateral investment treaties (BITs) increased five-fold in the 1990s from 385 in 1989 to 1,857 at the end of 1999. By 2002 there were an estimated 2200 BITs in operation.
  • The volume of worldwide trade in textiles is worth $500 billion.
  • Bangladesh's garment industry contributes 80% of the hard-currency earnings and employs 1.8 million workers, 85% of whom are women.
  • The world population at the end of the current century would be 10 billion.
  • More than 400 million people in South Asia live below poverty line, 300 million of them in India alone.
  • In Pakistan, people are now getting around 350,000 telephones every year.
  • The number of mobile phone users in Pakistan is estimated at 2.8 million.
  • In four decades, world textiles increased more than 60 times from less than $6 billion in 1962 to $342 billion in 2001 (in nominal terms).
  • China's foreign exchange reserve stood at $403 at the end of 2003.
  • Airbus will deliver more than 30 civilian aircraft to China in 2004.
  • The number of Internet users in China reached 79.5 million by the end of 2003.
  • In 2003, China produced 4.44m vehicles and sold out 4.37m.

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