own increased
interest in Uzbekistan, especially in mining, telecom, and oil and
gas. In December 2005, the Russians opened a "Trade House" to
support and develop Russian-Uzbek business and economic ties.

GDP (purchasing power parity):
$54.81 billion (2006 est.)

GDP (official exchange rate):
$10.78 billion (2006 est.)

GDP - real growth rate:
6.8% (2006 est.)

GDP - per capita (PPP):
$2,000 (2006 est.)

GDP - composition by sector:
agriculture: 31.1%
industry: 25.7%
services: 43.2% (2006 est.)

Labor force:
14.44 million (2006 est.)

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

Unemployment rate:
0.8% officially, plus another 20% underemployed (2006 est.)

Population below poverty line:
28% (2004 est.)

Household income or consumption by percentage share:
lowest 10%: 3.6%
highest 10%: 22% (2000)

Distribution of family income - Gini index:
26.8 (2000)

Inflation rate (consumer prices):
7.6% (2006 est.)

Budget:
revenues: $3.145 billion
expenditures: $3.108 billion; including capital expenditures of $NA
(2006 est.)

Public debt:
29.7% of GDP (2006 est.)

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

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

Industrial production growth rate:
7.7% (2005 est.)

Electricity - production:
46.45 billion kWh (2004)

Electricity - production by source:
fossil fuel: 88.2%
hydro: 11.8%
nuclear: 0%
other: 0% (2001)

Electricity - consumption:
48.2 billion kWh (2004)

Electricity - exports:
6.8 billion kWh (2004)

Electricity - imports:
11.8 billion kWh (2004)

Oil - production:
142,000 bbl/day (2004)

Oil - consumption:
148,000 bbl/day (2004)

Oil - exports:
NA bbl/day (2004)

Oil - imports:
NA bbl/day (2004)

Oil - proved reserves:
600 million bbl (1 January 2005)

Natural gas - production:
59.86 billion cu m (2004)

Natural gas - consumption:
50.2 billion cu m (2004)

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

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

Natural gas - proved reserves:
1.875 trillion cu m (1 January 2005 est.)

Current account balance:
$1.41 billion (2006 est.)

Exports:
$5.51 billion f.o.b. (2006 est.)

Exports - commodities:
cotton 41.5%, gold 9.6%, energy products