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GDP:
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purchasing power parity - $7.792 billion (2003 est.)
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GDP - real growth rate:
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6.3% (2003 est.)
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GDP - per capita:
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purchasing power parity - $1,800 (2003 est.)
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GDP - composition by sector:
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agriculture: 21%
industry: 27%
services: 52% (2003)
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Investment (gross fixed):
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17.2% of GDP (2003)
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Population below poverty line:
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80% (2001 est.)
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Household income or consumption by percentage share:
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lowest 10%: 2.2%
highest 10%: 30.7% (1997)
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Distribution of family income - Gini index:
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40.6 (1997)
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Inflation rate (consumer prices):
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11.6% (2003 est.)
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Labor force:
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1.383 million (2003)
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Labor force - by occupation:
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agriculture 40%, industry 14%, services 46% (1998)
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Unemployment rate:
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8% (roughly 25% of working age Moldovans are employed abroad) (2002 est.)
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Budget:
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revenues: $474.8 million
expenditures: $443.4 million, including capital expenditures of NA (2003 est.)
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Public debt:
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88.4% of GDP (2003)
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Industries:
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food processing, agricultural machinery, foundry equipment, refrigerators and freezers, washing machines, hosiery, sugar, vegetable oil, shoes, textiles
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Industrial production growth rate:
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17% (2003 est.)
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Electricity - production:
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3.394 billion kWh (2001)
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Electricity - production by source:
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fossil fuel: 90.6%
hydro: 9.4%
other: 0% (2001)
nuclear: 0%
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Electricity - consumption:
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3.216 billion kWh (2001)
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Electricity - exports:
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0 kWh (2001)
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Electricity - imports:
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60 million kWh (2001)
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Oil - production:
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0 bbl/day (2001 est.)
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Oil - consumption:
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24,000 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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0 cu m (2001 est.)
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Natural gas - consumption:
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2.05 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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2.05 billion cu m (2001 est.)
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Agriculture - products:
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vegetables, fruits, wine, grain, sugar beets, sunflower seed, tobacco; beef, milk
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Current account balance:
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$-135 million (2003)
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Exports:
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$790 million f.o.b. (2003 est.)
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Exports - commodities:
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foodstuffs, textiles, machinery
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Exports - partners:
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Russia 39%, Romania 11.4%, Italy 10.4%, Germany 7.1%, Ukraine 7.1%, Belarus 5.2%, US 4.3% (2003 est.)
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Imports:
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$1.34 billion f.o.b. (2003 est.)
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Imports - commodities:
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mineral products and fuel 32%, machinery and equipment, chemicals, textiles (2000)
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Imports - partners:
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Ukraine 22%, Russia 13%, Germany 9.7%, Italy 8.3%, Romania 7% (2003 est.)
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Reserves of foreign exchange & gold:
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$302.3 million (2003)
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Debt - external:
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$1.515 billion (2003)
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Economic aid - recipient:
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$100 million (2000)
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Currency code:
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MDL
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Exchange rates:
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lei per US dollar - 13.9449 (2003), 13.5705 (2002), 12.8651 (2001), 12.4342 (2000), 10.5158 (1999)
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