nemployment rate:
1.4% officially registered unemployed (December 1993); large numbers
of underemployed workers
Budget:
revenues:
$NA
expenditures:
$NA, including capital expenditures of $NA
Exports:
$710 million to outside of the FSU countries (f.o.b., 1993)
commodities:
machinery and transport equipment, chemicals, foodstuffs
partners:
Russia, Ukraine, Poland, Bulgaria
Imports:
$743 million from outside the FSU countries (c.i.f., 1993)
commodities:
fuel, industrial raw materials, textiles, sugar
partners:
Russia, Ukraine, Poland
External debt:
$NA
Industrial production:
growth rate -11% (1993); accounts for about 40% of GDP (1992)
Electricity:
capacity:
8,025,000 kW
production:
37.6 billion kWh
consumption per capita:
3,626 kWh (1992)
Industries:
employ about 40% of labor force and produce a wide variety of products
including (in percent share of total output of former Soviet Union):
tractors (12%); metal-cutting machine tools (11%); off-highway dump
trucks up to 110-metric-ton load capacity (100%); wheel-type
earthmovers for construction and mining (100%); eight-wheel-drive,
high-flotation trucks with cargo capacity of 25 metric tons for use in
tundra and roadless areas (100%); equipment for animal husbandry and
livestock feeding (25%); motorcycles (21.3%); television sets (11%);
chemical fibers (28%); fertilizer (18%); linen fabric (11%); wool
fabric (7%); radios; refrigerators; and other consumer goods
Agriculture:
accounts for almost 25% of GDP and 5.7% of total agricultural output
of former Soviet Union; employs 21% of the labor force; in 1988
produced the following (in percent of total Soviet production): grain
(3.6%), potatoes (12.2%), vegetables (3.0%), meat (6.0%), milk (7.0%);
net exporter of meat, milk, eggs, flour, potatoes
Illicit drugs:
illicit cultivator of opium poppy and cannabis; mostly for the
domestic market; transshipment point for illicit drugs to Western
Europe
Economic aid:
$NA
Currency:
Belarusian rubel
note:
the government signed a framework agreement with Russia for a monetary
union in January 1994, but a schedule and mechanism for merging the
two monetary systems and replacing Belarusian rubels with Russian
rubles have not been worked out
Exchange rates:
NA
Fiscal year:
calendar year

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Railroads:
5,570 km; does not include industrial lines (1990)
High