Unemployment rate: 5% plus another 10% underemployed (December 1996 est.)
Budget: revenues: $NA expenditures: $NA, including capital expenditures of $NA
Industries: textiles, food processing, machine building, metallurgy, natural gas
Industrial production growth rate: 6% (1996)
Electricity-capacity: 11.822 million kW (1995)
Electricity-production: 45.42 billion kWh (1996 est.)
Electricity-consumption per capita: 1,916 kWh (1996 est.)
Agriculture-products: cotton, vegetables, fruits, grain; livestock
Exports: total value: $3.8 billion (1996) commodities: cotton, gold, natural gas, mineral fertilizers, ferrous metals, textiles, food products, autos partners: Russia, Ukraine, Eastern Europe, Western Europe
Imports: total value: $4.7 billion (1996) commodities: grain, machinery and parts, consumer durables, other foods partners: principally other FSU, Czech Republic, Western Europe