GDP (2006 est.)

Budget:
revenues: $13.28 billion
expenditures: $12.16 billion; including capital expenditures of $NA
(2006 est.)

Public debt:
23.8% of GDP (2006 est.)

Agriculture - products:
vegetables, fruits, tobacco, wine, wheat, barley, sunflowers, sugar
beets; livestock

Industries:
electricity, gas, water; food, beverages, tobacco; machinery and
equipment, base metals, chemical products, coke, refined petroleum,
nuclear fuel

Industrial production growth rate:
5% (2006 est.)

Electricity - production:
41.96 billion kWh (2004)

Electricity - production by source:
fossil fuel: 47.8%
hydro: 8.1%
nuclear: 44.1%
other: 0% (2001)

Electricity - consumption:
35.23 billion kWh (2004)

Electricity - exports:
5 billion kWh (2004)

Electricity - imports:
1.2 billion kWh (2004)

Oil - production:
3,000 bbl/day (2005 est.)

Oil - consumption:
109,000 bbl/day (2005 est.)

Oil - exports:
51,000 bbl/day (2005 est.)

Oil - imports:
157,000 bbl/day (2005 est.)

Oil - proved reserves:
15 million bbl (1 January 2006)

Natural gas - production:
1 million cu m (2004 est.)

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

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

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

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

Current account balance:
$-4.13 billion (2006 est.)

Exports:
$14.6 billion f.o.b. (2006 est.)

Exports - commodities:
clothing, footwear, iron and steel, machinery and equipment, fuels

Exports - partners:
Italy 12%, Turkey 10.5%, Germany 9.8%, Greece 9.5%, Belgium 5.9%,
France 4.6% (2005)

Imports:
$20.69 billion f.o.b. (2006 est.)

Imports - commodities:
machinery and equipment; metals and ores; chemicals and plastics;
fuels, minerals, and raw materials

Imports - partners:
Russia 15.6%, Germany 13.6%, Italy 9%, Turkey 6.1%, Greece 5%,
France 4.7% (2005)

Reserves of foreign exchange and gold:
$10.58 billion (2006 est.)

Debt - external:
$21.1 billion (30 June 2006 est.)

Economic aid - recipient:
$475 million (2004-06 est.)

Currency (code):
lev (BGL)

Currency code:
BGN

Exchange rates:
leva per US dollar - 1.56441 (2006), 1.5741 (2005), 1.5751 (2004),
1.7327 (2003), 2.077 (2002)

Fiscal year:
calendar year

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