Unemployment rate: 1.4% (includes only officially registered unemployed; large numbers of underemployed workers) (March 1997)
Budget: revenues: $570 million expenditures: $641 million, including capital expenditures of $28 million (1997 est.)
Industries: food processing, agricultural machinery, foundry equipment, refrigerators and freezers, washing machines, hosiery, sugar, vegetable oil, shoes, textiles
Industrial production growth rate: -2% (1997 est.)
Electricity-capacity: 2.906 million kW (1997)
Electricity-production: 1.5 billion kWh (1997)
Electricity-consumption per capita: 324 kWh (1996 est.)
Agriculture-products: vegetables, fruits, wine, grain, sugar beets, sunflower seed, tobacco; meat, milk
Exports: total value: $816 million (1997) commodities: foodstuffs, wine, tobacco, textiles and footwear, machinery partners: Russia, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Romania, Germany
Imports: total value: $1.16 billion (1997) commodities: oil, gas, coal, steel, machinery, foodstuffs, automobiles, and other consumer durables partners: Russia, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Romania, Germany