GDP: purchasing power parity - $10.3 billion (1999 est.)
GDP - real growth rate: 3.4% (1999 est.)
GDP - per capita: purchasing power parity - $2,300 (1999 est.)
GDP - composition by sector:
agriculture:
45%
industry:
20%
services:
35% (1999 est.)
Population below poverty line: 40% (1993 est.)
Household income or consumption by percentage share:
lowest 10%:
2.7%
highest 10%:
26.2% (1993)
Inflation rate (consumer prices): 37% (1999 est.)
Labor force: 1.7 million
Labor force - by occupation: agriculture and forestry 55%, industry 15%, services 30% (1999 est.)
Unemployment rate: 6% (1998 est.)
Budget:
revenues:
$225 million
expenditures:
$308 million, including capital expenditures of $11 million (1996 est.)
Industries: small machinery, textiles, food processing, cement, shoes, sawn logs, refrigerators, furniture, electric motors, gold, rare earth metals
Industrial production growth rate: -3.4% (1999 est.)
Electricity - production: 12.206 billion kWh (1998)
Electricity - production by source:
fossil fuel:
10.78%
hydro:
89.22%
nuclear:
0%
other:
0% (1998)
Electricity - consumption: 11.102 billion kWh (1998)
Electricity - exports: 1.1 billion kWh (1998)
Electricity - imports: 850 million kWh (1998)
Agriculture - products: tobacco, cotton, potatoes, vegetables, grapes, fruits and berries; sheep, goats, cattle, wool
Exports: $515 million (1999 est.)
Exports - commodities: cotton, wool, meat, tobacco; gold, mercury, uranium, hydropower; machinery; shoes
Exports - partners: Germany 37%, Kazakhstan 17%, Russia 16%, Uzbekistan 8%, China 3% (1998)
Imports: $590 million (1999 est.)
Imports - commodities: oil and gas, machinery and equipment, foodstuffs
Imports - partners: Russia 24%, Uzbekistan 14%, Kazakhstan 9%, Germany 6%, China 5% (1998)
Debt - external: $1.1 billion (1999 est.)
Economic aid - recipient: $329.4 million (1995)
Currency: 1 Kyrgyzstani som (KGS) = 100 tyiyn
Exchange rates: soms (KGS) per US$1 - 46.235 (January 2000), 39.008 (1999), 20.838 (1998), 17.362 (1997), 12.810 (1996), 10.822 (1995)
Fiscal year: calendar year