GDP growth is uncertain.

GDP (purchasing power parity):
$45.11 billion (2006 est.)

GDP (official exchange rate):
$16.16 billion (2006 est.)

GDP - real growth rate:
IMF estimate: 13%
note: official government statistics show 21.4% growth, but these
estimates are widely regarded as unreliable (2006 est.)

GDP - per capita (PPP):
$8,900 (2006 est.)

GDP - composition by sector:
agriculture: 24.4%
industry: 33.9%
services: 41.7% (2006 est.)

Labor force:
2.32 million (2003 est.)

Labor force - by occupation:
agriculture: 48.2%
industry: 13.8%
services: 37% (2003 est.)

Unemployment rate:
60% (2004 est.)

Population below poverty line:
58% (2003 est.)

Household income or consumption by percentage share:
lowest 10%: 2.6%
highest 10%: 31.7% (1998)

Distribution of family income - Gini index:
40.8 (1998)

Inflation rate (consumer prices):
11% (2006 est.)

Investment (gross fixed):
28.8% of GDP (2006 est.)

Budget:
revenues: $1.803 billion
expenditures: $2.063 billion; including capital expenditures of $NA
(2006 est.)

Agriculture - products:
cotton, grain; livestock

Industries:
natural gas, oil, petroleum products, textiles, food processing

Industrial production growth rate:
22% (2003 est.)

Electricity - production:
10.79 billion kWh (2004 est.)

Electricity - production by source:
fossil fuel: 99.9%
hydro: 0.1%
nuclear: 0%
other: 0% (2001)

Electricity - consumption:
9.03 billion kWh (2004)

Electricity - exports:
1 billion kWh (2004)

Electricity - imports:
0 kWh (2004)

Oil - production:
213,700 bbl/day (2004 est.)

Oil - consumption:
95,000 bbl/day (2004 est.)

Oil - exports:
NA bbl/day (2001)

Oil - imports:
NA bbl/day (2001)

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

Natural gas - production:
58.57 billion cu m (2004 est.)

Natural gas - consumption:
16.57 billion cu m (2004 est.)

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

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

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

Current account balance:
$321.2 million (2006 est.)

Exports:
$5.421 billion f.o.b. (2006 est.)

Exports - commodities:
gas, crude oil, petrochemicals, cotton fiber, textiles

Exports - partners:
Ukraine 42.8%, Iran 14.8%, Hungary 5.3% (2005)

Imports:
$3.936 billion f.o.b. (20