Population below poverty line: 40% (1999 est.)
Household income or consumption by percentage share: lowest 10%: 2.4% highest 10%: 33.5% (2001 est.)
Distribution of family income - Gini index: 39.9 (2000)
Inflation rate (consumer prices): 21.9% (2001 est.)
Labor force: 71.3 million (2001 est.)
Labor force - by occupation: agriculture 10.8%, industry 27.8%, services 61.4% (2001 est.)
Unemployment rate: 8.7% (2001 est.), plus considerable underemployment
Budget: revenues: $45 billion expenditures: $43 billion, including capital expenditures of $NA (2001 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: 5.2% (2001 est.)