privatized. Foreign government and business support have helped in
the transition from the old command economy to a market economy.

GDP:
purchasing power parity - $40.88 billion (2003 est.)

GDP - real growth rate:
9% (2003 est.)

GDP - per capita:
purchasing power parity - $11,400 (2003 est.)

GDP - composition by sector:
agriculture: 6.1%
industry: 31.3%
services: 62.6% (2003 est.)

Investment (gross fixed):
20.8% of GDP (2003)

Population below poverty line:
NA

Household income or consumption by percentage share:
lowest 10%: 3.1%
highest 10%: 25.6% (1996)

Distribution of family income - Gini index:
34 (1999)

Inflation rate (consumer prices):
-1.2% (2003 est.)

Labor force:
1.642 million (2003 est.)

Labor force - by occupation:
agriculture 20%, industry 30%, services 50% (1997 est.)

Unemployment rate:
10.3% (2003 est.)

Budget:
revenues: $5.427 billion
expenditures: $5.742 billion, including capital expenditures of NA
(2003 est.)

Public debt:
23.6% of GDP (2003)

Agriculture - products:
grain, potatoes, sugar beets, flax, vegetables; beef, milk, eggs;
fish

Industries:
metal-cutting machine tools, electric motors, television sets,
refrigerators and freezers, petroleum refining, shipbuilding (small
ships), furniture making, textiles, food processing, fertilizers,
agricultural machinery, optical equipment, electronic components,
computers, amber

Industrial production growth rate:
16.1% (2003 est.)

Electricity - production:
14.62 billion kWh (2001)

Electricity - consumption:
8.683 billion kWh (2001)

Electricity - exports:
6.3 billion kWh (2001)

Electricity - imports:
1.389 billion kWh (2001)

Oil - production:
4,594 bbl/day (2001 est.)

Oil - consumption:
72,000 bbl/day (2001 est.)

Oil - exports:
NA (2001)

Oil - imports:
NA (2001)

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

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

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

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

Current account balance:
$-1.218 billion (2003)

Exports:
$7.89 billion f.o.b. (2003 est.)

Exports - commodities:
mineral products 23%, textiles and clothing 16%, machinery and
equipment 11%, chemicals 6%, wood and wood products 5%, foodstuffs
5% (2001)

Exports - partners:
Switzerland 11.6%, Russia 10.1%, Germany 9.