GDP: purchasing power parity - $9.7 billion (1999 est.)
GDP - real growth rate: -4.4% (1999 est.)
GDP - per capita: purchasing power parity - $2,200 (1999 est.)
GDP - composition by sector:
agriculture:
31%
industry:
35%
services:
34% (1998)
Population below poverty line: 75% (1999 est.)
Household income or consumption by percentage share:
lowest 10%:
2.7%
highest 10%:
25.8% (1992)
Inflation rate (consumer prices): 38% (1999 est.)
Labor force: 1.7 million (1998)
Labor force - by occupation: agriculture 40.2%, industry 14.3%, other 45.5% (1998)
Unemployment rate: 2% (includes only officially registered unemployed; large numbers of underemployed workers) (September 1998)
Budget:
revenues:
$536 million
expenditures:
$594 million, including capital expenditures of $NA (1998 est.)
Industries: food processing, agricultural machinery, foundry equipment, refrigerators and freezers, washing machines, hosiery, sugar, vegetable oil, shoes, textiles
Industrial production growth rate: -10% (1999 est.)
Electricity - production: 5.661 billion kWh (1998)
Electricity - production by source:
fossil fuel:
93%
hydro:
7%
nuclear:
0%
other:
0% (1998)
Electricity - consumption: 7.065 billion kWh (1998)
Electricity - exports: 0 kWh (1998)
Electricity - imports: 1.8 billion kWh (1998)
Agriculture - products: vegetables, fruits, wine, grain, sugar beets, sunflower seed, tobacco; beef, milk
Exports: $470 million (f.o.b., 1999)
Exports - commodities: foodstuffs, wine, and tobacco 66%; textiles and footwear, machinery (1998)
Exports - partners: Russia 53%, Romania 10%, Ukraine 8%, Germany 5%, Belarus 4% (1998)
Imports: $560 million (f.o.b., 1999)
Imports - commodities: mineral products and fuel 31%, machinery and equipment, chemicals, textiles (1998)
Imports - partners: Russia 22%, Ukraine 16%, Romania 12%, Belarus 9%, Germany 5% (1998)
Debt - external: $1.3 billion (December 1999)
Economic aid - recipient: $100.8 million (1995); note - $547 million from the IMF and World Bank (1992-99)
Currency: Moldovan leu (MLD) (plural lei)
Exchange rates: lei (MLD) per US$1 (end of year) - 12.1408 (January 2000), 10.5158 (1999), 5.3707 (1998), 4.6236 (1997), 4.6045 (1996), 4.4958 (1995)
Fiscal year: calendar year