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GDP:
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purchasing power parity - $62.56 billion (2003 est.)
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GDP - real growth rate:
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6.8% (2003 est.)
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GDP - per capita:
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purchasing power parity - $6,100 (2003 est.)
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GDP - composition by sector:
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agriculture: 11.1%
industry: 36.4%
services: 52.5% (2003 est.)
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Investment (gross fixed):
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21.7% of GDP (2003)
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Population below poverty line:
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22% (1995 est.)
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Household income or consumption by percentage share:
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lowest 10%: 5.1%
highest 10%: 20% (1998)
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Distribution of family income - Gini index:
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21.7 (1998)
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Inflation rate (consumer prices):
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28.2% (2003 est.)
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Labor force:
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4.8 million (2000 est.)
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Labor force - by occupation:
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NA
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Unemployment rate:
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2.1% officially registered unemployed (December 2000); large number of underemployed workers (2003 est.)
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Budget:
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revenues: $2.976 billion
expenditures: $3.211 billion, including capital expenditures of $180 million (2003 est.)
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Industries:
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metal-cutting machine tools, tractors, trucks, earthmovers, motorcycles, television sets, chemical fibers, fertilizer, textiles, radios, refrigerators
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Industrial production growth rate:
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5% (2003 est.)
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Electricity - production:
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24.4 billion kWh (2001)
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Electricity - production by source:
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fossil fuel: 99.5%
hydro: 0.1%
other: 0.4% (2001)
nuclear: 0%
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Electricity - consumption:
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26.69 billion kWh (2001)
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Electricity - exports:
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300 million kWh (2001)
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Electricity - imports:
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4.3 billion kWh (2001)
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Oil - production:
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37,000 bbl/day (2001 est.)
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Oil - consumption:
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230,000 bbl/day (2001 est.)
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Oil - exports:
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NA (2001)
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Oil - imports:
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NA (2001)
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Natural gas - production:
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200 million cu m (2001 est.)
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Natural gas - consumption:
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18 billion cu m (2001 est.)
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Natural gas - exports:
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0 cu m (2001 est.)
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Natural gas - imports:
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17.8 billion cu m (2001 est.)
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Agriculture - products:
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grain, potatoes, vegetables, sugar beets, flax; beef, milk
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Current account balance:
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$-945 million (2003)
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Exports:
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$9.413 billion f.o.b. (2003 est.)
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Exports - commodities:
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machinery and equipment, mineral products, chemicals, metals; textiles, foodstuffs
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Exports - partners:
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Russia 57.2%, Germany 4.7%, France 3.9% (2003 est.)
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Imports:
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$11.09 billion f.o.b. (2003 est.)
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Imports - commodities:
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mineral products, machinery and equipment, chemicals, foodstuffs, metals
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Imports - partners:
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Russia 68.8%, Germany 8.6%, Poland 2.9% (2003 est.)
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Reserves of foreign exchange & gold:
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$637 million (2003)
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Debt - external:
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$851 million (2001 est.)
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Economic aid - recipient:
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$194.3 million (1995)
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Currency code:
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BYB/BYR
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