ignificant amounts of foreign direct investment. Corruption in the
public administration, a weak judiciary, and the presence of
organized crime remain the largest challenges for Bulgaria.

GDP (purchasing power parity):
$61.63 billion (2004 est.)

GDP - real growth rate:
5.3% (2004 est.)

GDP - per capita:
purchasing power parity - $8,200 (2004 est.)

GDP - composition by sector:
agriculture: 11.5%
industry: 30.1%
services: 58.4% (2004 est.)

Labor force:
3.398 million (2004 est.)

Labor force - by occupation:
agriculture 11%, industry 32.7%, services 56.3% (3rd quarter 2004
est.)

Unemployment rate:
12.7% (2004 est.)

Population below poverty line:
13.4% (2002 est.)

Household income or consumption by percentage share:
lowest 10%: 4.5%
highest 10%: 22.8% (1997)

Distribution of family income - Gini index:
26.4 (2001)

Inflation rate (consumer prices):
6.1% (2004 est.)

Investment (gross fixed):
18.6% of GDP (2004 est.)

Budget:
revenues: $9.67 billion
expenditures: $9.619 billion, including capital expenditures of NA
(2004 est.)

Public debt:
41.9% of GDP (2004 est.)

Agriculture - products:
vegetables, fruits, tobacco, livestock, wine, wheat, barley,
sunflowers, sugar beets

Industries:
electricity, gas and water; food, beverages and tobacco; machinery
and equipment, base metals, chemical products, coke, refined
petroleum, nuclear fuel

Industrial production growth rate:
5.2% (2004 est.)

Electricity - production:
43.07 billion kWh (2002)

Electricity - production by source:
fossil fuel: 47.8%
hydro: 8.1%
nuclear: 44.1%
other: 0% (2001)

Electricity - consumption:
32.71 billion kWh (2002)

Electricity - exports:
8.3 billion kWh (2002)

Electricity - imports:
960 million kWh (2002)

Oil - production:
603 bbl/day (2001 est.)

Oil - consumption:
94,000 bbl/day (2001 est.)

Oil - exports:
NA

Oil - imports:
NA

Oil - proved reserves:
8.1 million bbl (1 January 2002)

Natural gas - production:
4 million cu m (2001 est.)

Natural gas - consumption:
5.804 billion cu m (2001 est.)

Natural gas - exports:
0 cu m (2001 est.)

Natural gas - imports:
5.8 billion cu m (2001 est.)

Natural gas - proved reserves:
3.724 billion cu m (1 January 2002)

Current account balance:
$682.9 million (2004 est.)

Exports:
$9.134 billion f.o.b. (2004 est.)

Exports - comm