GDP: purchasing power parity - $767 billion (1996 estimate as extrapolated from World Bank estimate for 1994)

GDP - real growth rate: -6% (1996 est.)

GDP - per capita: purchasing power parity - $5,200 (1996 est.)

GDP - composition by sector: agriculture: NA% industry: NA% services: NA%

Inflation rate - consumer price index: 22% (1996)

Labor force: total: 73 million (1996) by occupation : NA

Unemployment rate: 9.3% (December 1996) (according to ILO definition) with considerable additional underemployment

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

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; shipbuilding; 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, textiles, foodstuffs, handicrafts

Industrial production growth rate: -5% (1996)