e (2006 est.)

Population below poverty line:
49% (2002 est.)

Household income or consumption by percentage share:
lowest 10%: 2.8%
highest 10%: 27.8% (1995)

Distribution of family income - Gini index:
36.5 (2001)

Inflation rate (consumer prices):
8% (2006 est.)

Investment (gross fixed):
44.9% of GDP (2006 est.)

Budget:
revenues: $6.008 billion
expenditures: $5.804 billion; including capital expenditures of $NA
(2006 est.)

Public debt:
10.4% of GDP (2006 est.)

Agriculture - products:
cotton, grain, rice, grapes, fruit, vegetables, tea, tobacco;
cattle, pigs, sheep, goats

Industries:
petroleum and natural gas, petroleum products, oilfield equipment;
steel, iron ore; cement; chemicals and petrochemicals; textiles

Industrial production growth rate:
50% (2006 est.)

Electricity - production:
20.35 billion kWh (2004)

Electricity - production by source:
fossil fuel: 89.7%
hydro: 10.3%
nuclear: 0%
other: 0% (2001)

Electricity - consumption:
20.57 billion kWh (2004)

Electricity - exports:
510 million kWh (2004)

Electricity - imports:
2.15 billion kWh (2004)

Oil - production:
477,000 bbl/day (2005 est.)

Oil - consumption:
120,000 bbl/day (2004 est.)

Oil - exports:
NA bbl/day (2001)

Oil - imports:
NA bbl/day (2001)

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

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

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

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

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

Natural gas - proved reserves:
849.5 billion cu m (1 January 2005 est.)

Current account balance:
$2.737 billion (2006 est.)

Exports:
$12.51 billion f.o.b. (2006 est.)

Exports - commodities:
oil and gas 90%, machinery, cotton, foodstuffs

Exports - partners:
Italy 30.3%, France 9.4%, Russia 6.6%, Turkey 6.3%, Turkmenistan
6.3%, Georgia 4.8%, Israel 4.5%, Croatia 4.1% (2005)

Imports:
$5.176 billion f.o.b. (2006 est.)

Imports - commodities:
machinery and equipment, oil products, foodstuffs, metals, chemicals

Imports - partners:
Russia 17%, UK 9.1%, Singapore 9.1%, Turkey 7.4%, Germany 6.1%,
Turkmenistan 5.8%, Ukraine 5.4%, China 4.1% (2005)

Reserves of foreign exchange and gold:
$1.8 billion (2006 est.)

Debt - external:
$2.483 billion (2006 est.)

Economic aid - recipien