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Top performing Indian oil companies in the Fortune Global 500 list for 2005 include the following:

Company                         Rank         Revenue ($ millions)  

Indian Oil                         170                 29,643                 
Reliance Industries          417                 14,841
Bharat Petroleum            429                 14,436
Hindustan Petroleum       436                 14,114
Oil & Natural Gas            454                 13,751

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Financial & Economic Statistics

Currency (code):        Indian rupee (INR)
Currency code:          INR
Exchange rates:        Indian rupees per US dollar - 44.101 (2005), 45.317 (2004), 46.583 (2003), 48.61 (2002), 47.186
(2001)

GDP (purchasing power parity):        $3.699 trillion (2005 est.)
GDP (official exchange rate):            $720.3 billion (2005 est.)
GDP - real growth rate:                        7.6% (2005 est.)
GDP - per capita (PPP):                      $3,400 (2005 est.)
GDP - composition by sector:             agriculture: 20.6%
industry: 28.1%
services: 51.4% (2005 est.)

Current account balance:                $-13.19 billion (2005 est.)

Exports:                                        $76.23 billion f.o.b. (2005 est.)
Exports - commodities:        textile goods, gems and jewelry, engineering goods, chemicals, leather manufactures
Exports - partners:                US 17%, UAE 8.8%, China 5.5%, Hong Kong 4.7%, UK 4.5%, Singapore 4.5% (2004)

Imports:                                        $113.1 billion f.o.b. (2005 est.)
Imports - commodities:                crude oil, machinery, gems, fertilizer, chemicals
Imports - partners:                       China 6.1%, US 6%, Switzerland 5.2%, Belgium 4.4% (2004)

Reserves of foreign exchange and gold:        $145 billion (2005 est.)

Debt - external:                                $119.7 billion (2005 est.)
Economic aid - recipient:                   $2.9 billion (FY98/99)

Labor force:                                     496.4 million (2005 est.)
Labor force - by occupation:        agriculture 60%, industry 17%, services 23% (1999)
Unemployment rate:                        9.9% (2005 est.)
Population below poverty line:        25% (2002 est.)
Household income or consumption by percentage share:        lowest 10%: 3.5%
highest 10%: 33.5% (1997)

Inflation rate (consumer prices):        4.6% (2005 est.)
Investment (gross fixed):        24.8% of GDP (2005 est.)

Budget:        revenues: $111.2 billion
expenditures: $135.8 billion; including capital expenditures of $15 billion (2005 est.)
Public debt:        82% of GDP (federal and state debt combined) (2005 est.)

Agriculture - products:        rice, wheat, oilseed, cotton, jute, tea, sugarcane, potatoes; cattle, water buffalo, sheep,
goats, poultry; fish

Industries:        textiles, chemicals, food processing, steel, transportation equipment, cement, mining, petroleum,
machinery, software

Industrial production growth rate:        8.2% (2005 est.)

Electricity - production:        556.8 billion kWh (2003)
Electricity - production by source:        fossil fuel: 81.7%
hydro: 14.5%
nuclear: 3.4%
other: 0.3% (2001)
Electricity - consumption:        519 billion kWh (2003)
Electricity - exports:        187 million kWh (2003)
Electricity - imports:        1.4 billion kWh (2003)

Oil - production:        785,000 bbl/day (2005 est.)
Oil - consumption:        2.32 million bbl/day (2003 est.)
Oil - exports:        350,000 bbl/day
Oil - imports:        2.09 million bbl/day
Oil - proved reserves:        5.7 billion bbl (2005 est.)

Natural gas - production:        27.1 billion cu m (2003 est.)
Natural gas - consumption:        27.1 billion cu m (2003 est.)
Natural gas - exports:        0 cu m (2001 est.)
Natural gas - imports:        0 cu m (2001 est.)
Natural gas - proved reserves:        853.5 billion cu m (2005)

Communications      
Telephones - main lines in use:        67.285 million (2005)
Telephones - mobile cellular:        62,019,144 (2006)






Source - CIA
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