GDP - real growth rate: 1.4% (western 1.3%, eastern 2.0%) (1996)
GDP - per capita: purchasing power parity - $20,400 (western: purchasing power parity - $23,100; eastern: purchasing power parity - $9,000) (1996 est.)
GDP - composition by sector: agriculture: 1.1% industry: 34.5% services: 64.4% (1995)
Inflation rate - consumer price index: 1.5% (1996)
Labor force: total: 38.7 million by occupation: industry 41%, agriculture 3%, services 56% (1995)
Unemployment rate: 10.8% (western 9.6%, eastern 15.9%) (December 1996)
Budget: revenues: $755 billion expenditures: $832.1 billion, including capital expenditures of $NA (1995)
Industries: western: among world's largest and technologically advanced producers of iron, steel, coal, cement, chemicals, machinery, vehicles, machine tools, electronics, food and beverages; eastern: metal fabrication, chemicals, brown coal, shipbuilding, machine building, food and beverages, textiles, petroleum refining
Industrial production growth rate: 1.3% (1996 est.)
Electricity - capacity: 109.73 million kW (1994)