ia region continues to be a drag on
the Moldovan economy.
GDP (purchasing power parity):
$9.756 billion (2007 est.)
GDP (official exchange rate):
$4.227 billion (2007 est.)
GDP - real growth rate:
3% (2007 est.)
GDP - per capita (PPP):
$2,300 (2007 est.)
GDP - composition by sector:
agriculture: 17.8%
industry: 21.7%
services: 60.5% (2007 est.)
Labor force:
1.333 million (2007 est.)
Labor force - by occupation:
agriculture: 40.7%
industry: 12.1%
services: 47.2% (2005)
Unemployment rate:
2.1%; note - roughly 25% of working age Moldovans are employed
abroad (2007 est.)
Population below poverty line:
29.5% (2005)
Household income or consumption by percentage share:
lowest 10%: 3.2%
highest 10%: 26.4% (2003)
Distribution of family income - Gini index:
33.2 (2003)
Investment (gross fixed):
33.3% of GDP (2007 est.)
Budget:
revenues: $1.83 billion
expenditures: $1.841 billion (2007 est.)
Fiscal year:
calendar year
Public debt:
23.3% of GDP (2007 est.)
Inflation rate (consumer prices):
12.3% (2007 est.)
Commercial bank prime lending rate:
18.83% (31 December 2007)
Stock of money:
$965 million (31 December 2007)
Stock of quasi money:
$1.449 billion (31 December 2007)
Stock of domestic credit:
$1.896 billion (31 December 2007)
Agriculture - products:
vegetables, fruits, wine, grain, sugar beets, sunflower seed,
tobacco; beef, milk
Industries:
sugar, vegetable oil, food processing, agricultural machinery;
foundry equipment, refrigerators and freezers, washing machines;
hosiery, shoes, textiles
Industrial production growth rate:
1% (2007 est.)
Electricity - production:
3.824 billion kWh (2006 est.)
Electricity - consumption:
5.806 billion kWh (2006 est.)
Electricity - exports:
229 million kWh (2006 est.)
Electricity - imports:
3.741 billion kWh (2006 est.)
Electricity - production by source:
fossil fuel: 90.6%
hydro: 9.4%
nuclear: 0%
other: 0% (2001)
Oil - production:
0 bbl/day (2007 est.)
Oil - consumption:
15,770 bbl/day (2006 est.)
Oil - exports:
50.03 bbl/day (2005)
Oil - imports:
14,450 bbl/day (2005)
Oil - proved reserves:
0 bbl (1 January 2006 est.)
Natural gas - production:
50 million cu m (2006 est.)
Natural gas - consumption:
2.44 billion cu m (2007 est.)
Natural g
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