gained membership in the World Trade
Organization and has moved ahead with plans to join the EU. Privatization
of the large, state-owned utilities, particularly in the energy sector,
is underway.

GDP: purchasing power parity - $27.4 billion (2001 est.)

GDP - real growth rate: 4.8% (2001 est.)

GDP - per capita: purchasing power parity - $7,600 (2001 est.)

GDP - composition by sector: agriculture: 9% industry: 32% services: 59%
(2000 est.)

Population below poverty line: NA%

Household income or consumption by percentage share: lowest 10%: 3.1%
highest 10%: 25.6% (1996)

Distribution of family income - Gini index: 34 (1999)

Inflation rate (consumer prices): 1.3% (2001 est.)

Labor force: 1.5 million (2001 est.)

Labor force - by occupation: industry 30%, agriculture 20%, services 50%
(1997 est.)

Unemployment rate: 12.5% (2001 est.)

Budget: revenues: $1.59 billion expenditures: $1.77 billion, including
capital expenditures of $NA (2001 est.)

Industries: metal-cutting machine tools, electric motors, television
sets, refrigerators and freezers, petroleum refining, shipbuilding
(small ships), furniture making, textiles, food processing, fertilizers,
agricultural machinery, optical equipment, electronic components,
computers, amber

Industrial production growth rate: 15% (2001 est.)

Electricity - production: 10.966 billion kWh (2000)

Electricity - production by source: fossil fuel: 20.16% hydro: 3.06%
other: 0% (2000) nuclear: 76.78%

Electricity - consumption: 6.898 billion kWh (2000)

Electricity - exports: 6.3 billion kWh (2000)

Electricity - imports: 3 billion kWh (2000)

Agriculture - products: grain, potatoes, sugar beets, flax, vegetables;
beef, milk, eggs; fish

Exports: $4.8 billion (f.o.b., 2001)

Exports - commodities: mineral products 21%, textiles and clothing 19%,
machinery and equipment 11%, chemicals 8%, wood and wood products 6%,
foodstuffs 4% (2000)

Exports - partners: Latvia 15%, Germany 14%, UK 8%, Russia 7%, Ukraine 5%
(2000)

Imports: $5.7 billion (f.o.b., 2001)

Imports - commodities: mineral products 23%, machinery and equipment 16%,
chemicals 9%, textiles and clothing 9%, transport equipment 9% (2000)

Imports - partners: Russia 28%, Germany 15%, Poland 5%, France 4%, UK 4%
(2000)

Debt - external: $3.6 billion (2001 est.)

Economic aid - recipient: $228.5 million (1995)

Currency: litas (LTL)

Currency code: LTL

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