Unemployment rate: 4.3% officially registered; large number of unregistered or underemployed workers (December 1999)
Budget: revenues: $8.3 billion expenditures: $8.8 billion, including capital expenditures of $NA (1999 est.)
Industries: coal, electric power, ferrous and nonferrous metals, machinery and transport equipment, chemicals, food-processing (especially sugar)
Industrial production growth rate: 4.3% (1999 est.)
Electricity - production: 171 billion kWh (1999)
Electricity - production by source: fossil fuel: 52% hydro: 5.9% nuclear: 42.1% other: 0% (1999)
Electricity - consumption: 144.011 billion kWh (1998)
Electricity - exports: 7 billion kWh (1998)
Electricity - imports: 4.15 billion kWh (1998)
Agriculture - products: grain, sugar beets, sunflower seeds, vegetables; beef, milk