Inflation rate (consumer prices): 10.7% (1998)
Labor force: 3.655 million (1998)
Labor force—by occupation: industry 33.1%, agriculture 6.9%, construction 9.1%, transport and communications 7.2%, services 43.7% (1994)
Unemployment rate: 7% (1998 est.)
Budget:
revenues: $16.1 billion
expenditures: $16.6 billion, including capital expenditures of $NA
(1997)
Industries: fuels, ferrous metallurgy, machinery and equipment,
coal, motor vehicles, glass, armaments
Industrial production growth rate: 6.7% (1998 est.)
Electricity—production: 60.214 billion kWh (1996)
Electricity—production by source: fossil fuel: 76.69% hydro: 3.04% nuclear: 20.27% other: 0% (1996)
Electricity—consumption: 60.164 billion kWh (1996)