first-time export
duty of $180 per ton on oil shipped to Belarus.

GDP (purchasing power parity):
$80.74 billion (2006 est.)

GDP (official exchange rate):
$28.56 billion (2006 est.)

GDP - real growth rate:
8.3% (2006 est.)

GDP - per capita (PPP):
$7,800 (2006 est.)

GDP - composition by sector:
agriculture: 9.3%
industry: 31.6%
services: 59.1% (2005 est.)

Labor force:
4.3 million (31 December 2005)

Labor force - by occupation:
agriculture: 14%
industry: 34.7%
services: 51.3% (2003 est.)

Unemployment rate:
1.6% officially registered unemployed; large number of
underemployed workers (2005)

Population below poverty line:
27.1% (2003 est.)

Household income or consumption by percentage share:
lowest 10%: 5.1%
highest 10%: 20% (1998)

Distribution of family income - Gini index:
30.4 (2000)

Inflation rate (consumer prices):
9.5% (2006 est.)

Investment (gross fixed):
25.9% of GDP (2006 est.)

Budget:
revenues: $6.578 billion
expenditures: $7.164 billion; including capital expenditures of $180
million (2006 est.)

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

Industries:
metal-cutting machine tools, tractors, trucks, earthmovers,
motorcycles, televisions, chemical fibers, fertilizer, textiles,
radios, refrigerators

Industrial production growth rate:
15.6% (2005 est.)

Electricity - production:
29.33 billion kWh (2004)

Electricity - production by source:
fossil fuel: 99.5%
hydro: 0.1%
nuclear: 0%
other: 0.4% (2001)

Electricity - consumption:
31.05 billion kWh (2004)

Electricity - exports:
4.723 billion kWh (2004)

Electricity - imports:
8.5 billion kWh (2004)

Oil - production:
34,260 bbl/day (2004 est.)

Oil - consumption:
165,000 bbl/day (2004 est.)

Oil - exports:
14,500 bbl/day (2003 est.)

Oil - imports:
360,000 bbl/day (2004 est.)

Natural gas - production:
180 million cu m (2004 est.)

Natural gas - consumption:
20.5 billion cu m (2005 est.)

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

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

Current account balance:
$-511.8 million (2006 est.)

Exports:
$19.61 billion f.o.b. (2006 est.)

Exports - commodities:
machinery and equipment, mineral products, chemicals, metals,
textiles, foodstuffs

Exports - partners:
Russia 35.8%, Netherlands 15.1%, UK 7