sector:
agriculture: 5.3%
industry: 36.6%
services: 58.2% (2006 est.)

Labor force:
73.88 million (2006 est.)

Labor force - by occupation:
agriculture: 10.8%
industry: 29.1%
services: 60.1% (2005 est.)

Unemployment rate:
6.6% plus considerable underemployment (2006 est.)

Population below poverty line:
17.8% (2004 est.)

Household income or consumption by percentage share:
lowest 10%: 1.7%
highest 10%: 38.7% (1998)

Distribution of family income - Gini index:
40.5 (2005)

Inflation rate (consumer prices):
9.8% (2006 est.)

Investment (gross fixed):
18.2% of GDP (2006 est.)

Budget:
revenues: $222.2 billion
expenditures: $157.3 billion; including capital expenditures of $NA
(2006 est.)

Public debt:
8% of GDP (2006 est.)

Agriculture - products:
grain, sugar beets, sunflower seed, vegetables, fruits; beef, milk

Industries:
complete range of mining and extractive industries producing coal,
oil, gas, chemicals, and metals; all forms of machine building from
rolling mills to high-performance aircraft and space vehicles;
defense industries including radar, missile production, and advanced
electronic components, shipbuilding; road and rail transportation
equipment; communications equipment; agricultural machinery,
tractors, and construction equipment; electric power generating and
transmitting equipment; medical and scientific instruments; consumer
durables, textiles, foodstuffs, handicrafts

Industrial production growth rate:
4.8% (2006 est.)

Electricity - production:
952.4 billion kWh (2005)

Electricity - production by source:
fossil fuel: 66.3%
hydro: 17.2%
nuclear: 16.4%
other: 0.1% (2003)

Electricity - consumption:
940 billion kWh (2005)

Electricity - exports:
22.3 billion kWh (2005)

Electricity - imports:
9.9 billion kWh (2005)

Oil - production:
9.4 million bbl/day (2005 est.)

Oil - consumption:
2.5 million bbl/day (2005 est.)

Oil - exports:
7 million bbl/day (2005)

Oil - imports:
100,000 bbl/day (2005)

Oil - proved reserves:
74.4 billion bbl (2005 est.)

Natural gas - production:
641 billion cu m (2005 est.)

Natural gas - consumption:
445.1 billion cu m (2005 est.)

Natural gas - exports:
216.8 billion cu m (2004 est.)

Natural gas - imports:
36.6 billion cu m (2004 est.)

Natural gas - proved reserves:
47.57 trillion cu m (1 January 2005 est.)