of additional dollars in assets being moved abroad, primarily
to bank accounts in Europe. Russia's physical plant continues to
deteriorate because of insufficient maintenance and new construction.
Plant and equipment on average are twice the age of the West's. Many
years will pass before Russia can take full advantage of its natural
resources and its human assets.

National product: GDP - purchasing power parity - $721.2 billion (1994
estimate as extrapolated from World Bank estimate for 1992)

National product real growth rate: -15% (1994 est.)

National product per capita: $4,820 (1994 est.)

Inflation rate (consumer prices): 10% per month (average 1994)

Unemployment rate: 7.1% (December 1994) with considerable additional
underemployment

Budget:
revenues: $NA
expenditures: $NA, including capital expenditures of $NA

Exports: $48 billion (f.o.b., 1994)
commodities: petroleum and petroleum products, natural gas, wood and
wood products, metals, chemicals, and a wide variety of civilian and
military manufactures
partners: Europe, North America, Japan, Third World countries, Cuba

Imports: $35.7 billion (f.o.b., 1994)
commodities: machinery and equipment, consumer goods, medicines, meat,
grain, sugar, semifinished metal products
partners: Europe, North America, Japan, Third World countries, Cuba

External debt: $95 billion-$100 billion (yearend 1994)

Industrial production: growth rate -21% (1994)

Electricity:
capacity: 213,100,000 KW
production: 876 billion kWh
consumption per capita: 5,800 kWh (1994)

Industries: complete range of mining and extractive industries
producing coal, oil, gas, chemicals, and metals; all forms of machine
building from rolling mills to high-performance aircraft and space
vehicles; ship- building; road and rail transportation equipment;
communications equipment; agricultural machinery, tractors, and
construction equipment; electric power generating and transmitting
equipment; medical and scientific instruments; consumer durables

Agriculture: grain, sugar beets, sunflower seeds, meat, milk,
vegetables, fruits; because of its northern location does not grow
citrus, cotton, tea, and other warm climate products

Illicit drugs: illicit cultivator of cannabis and opium poppy; mostly
for domestic consumption; government has active eradication program;
used as transshipment point for Asian and Latin American illicit drugs
to Western E