Labor force: 66 million (1997)
Labor force—by occupation: NA
Unemployment rate: 11.5% (1998 est.) with considerable additional
underemployment
Budget:
revenues: $40 billion
expenditures: $63 billion, including capital expenditures of $NA
(1998 est.)
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: -5.5% (1998 est.)
Electricity—production: 834 billion kWh (1997)
Electricity—production by source: fossil fuel: 68.14% hydro: 19% nuclear: 12.82% other: 0.04% (1997)
Electricity—consumption: 788.036 billion kWh (1996)
Electricity—exports: 24.2 billion kWh (1996)