Distribution of family income - Gini index: 33.3 (1993)

Inflation rate (consumer prices): 23% (2001 est.)

Labor force: 11.9 million (1998 est.)

Labor force - by occupation: agriculture 44%, industry 20%, services 36%
(1995)

Unemployment rate: 10% plus another 20% underemployed (1999 est.)

Budget: revenues: $4 billion expenditures: $4.1 billion, including
capital expenditures of $NA (1999 est.)

Industries: textiles, food processing, machine building, metallurgy,
natural gas, chemicals

Industrial production growth rate: 3.5% (2000 est.)

Electricity - production: 44.075 billion kWh (2000)

Electricity - production by source: fossil fuel: 86.95% hydro: 13.05%
other: 0% (2000) nuclear: 0%

Electricity - consumption: 41.89 billion kWh (2000)

Electricity - exports: 4.1 billion kWh (2000)

Electricity - imports: 5 billion kWh (2000)

Agriculture - products: cotton, vegetables, fruits, grain; livestock

Exports: $2.8 billion (f.o.b., 2001 est.)

Exports - commodities: cotton 41.5%, gold 9.6%, energy products 9.6%,
mineral fertilizers, ferrous metals, textiles, food products, automobiles
(1998 est.)

Exports - partners: Russia 16.7%, Switzerland 8.3%, UK 7.2%, Ukraine
4.7%, South Korea 3.3%, Kazakhstan 3.1% (2000)

Imports: $2.5 billion (f.o.b., 2001 est.)

Imports - commodities: machinery and equipment 49.8%, foodstuffs 16.4%,
chemicals, metals (1998 est.)

Imports - partners: Russia 15.8%, South Korea 9.8%, US 8.7%, Germany
8.6%, Kazakhstan 7.3%, Ukraine 6.1% (2002)

Debt - external: $5.1 billion (2001 est.)

Economic aid - recipient: approximately $150 million from the US (2001)

Currency: Uzbekistani sum (UZS)

Currency code: UZS

Exchange rates: Uzbekistani sums per US dollar - 687.0 (January 2002),
325.0 (January 2001), 141.4 (January 2000), 111.9 (February 1999), 110.95
(December 1998), 75.8 (September 1997)

Fiscal year: calendar year

Communications Uzbekistan

Telephones - main lines in use: 1.98 million (1999)

Telephones - mobile cellular: 26,000 (1998)

Telephone system: general assessment: antiquated and inadequate; in
serious need of modernization domestic: the domestic telephone system is
being expanded and technologically improved, particularly in Tashkent and
Samarqand, under contracts with prominent companies in industrialized
countries; moreover, by 1998, six cellular networks had been placed in
operation - four of the GSM type (Global