Unemployment rate:
3.7% officially registered; large number of unregistered or
underemployed workers (2003)
Budget:
revenues: $14.1 billion
expenditures: $14.19 billion, including capital expenditures of NA
(2003 est.)
Public debt:
28.7% of GDP (2003)
Agriculture - products:
grain, sugar beets, sunflower seeds, vegetables; beef, milk
Industries:
coal, electric power, ferrous and nonferrous metals, machinery and
transport equipment, chemicals, food processing (especially sugar)
Industrial production growth rate:
15.8% (2003 est.)
Electricity - production:
164.7 billion kWh (2001)
Electricity - consumption:
152.4 billion kWh (2001)
Electricity - exports:
800 million kWh (2001)
Electricity - imports:
0 kWh (2001)