GDP: purchasing power parity - $55.2 billion (1999 est.)
GDP - real growth rate: 1.5% (1999 est.)
GDP - per capita: purchasing power parity - $5,300 (1999 est.)
GDP - composition by sector:
agriculture:
23%
industry:
28%
services:
49% (1998 est.)
Population below poverty line: 22% (1995 est.)
Household income or consumption by percentage share:
lowest 10%:
4.9%
highest 10%:
19.4% (1993)
Inflation rate (consumer prices): 295% (1999 est.)
Labor force: 4.3 million (1998)
Labor force - by occupation: industry and construction NA%, agriculture and forestry NA%, services NA%
Unemployment rate: 2.3% officially registered unemployed (December 1998); large number of underemployed workers
Budget:
revenues:
$4 billion
expenditures:
$4.1 billion, including capital expenditures of $180 million (1997 est.)
Industries: metal-cutting machine tools, tractors, trucks, earth movers, motorcycles, TV sets, chemical fibers, fertilizer, textiles, radios, refrigerators
Industrial production growth rate: 8% (1999 est.)
Electricity - production: 21.893 billion kWh (1998)
Electricity - production by source:
fossil fuel:
99.89%
hydro:
0.11%
nuclear:
0%
other:
0% (1998)
Electricity - consumption: 28.66 billion kWh (1998)
Electricity - exports: 2.3 billion kWh (1998)
Electricity - imports: 10.6 billion kWh (1998)
Agriculture - products: grain, potatoes, vegetables, sugar beets, flax; beef, milk
Exports: $6 billion (f.o.b., 1999)
Exports - commodities: machinery and equipment, chemicals, metals, textiles, foodstuffs
Exports - partners: Russia 66%, Ukraine, Poland, Germany, Lithuania (1998)
Imports: $6.4 billion (c.i.f., 1999)
Imports - commodities: mineral products, machinery and equipment, metals, chemicals, foodstuffs
Imports - partners: Russia 54%, Ukraine, Germany, Poland, Lithuania (1998)
Debt - external: $1.1 billion (1998 est.)
Economic aid - recipient: $194.3 million (1995)
Currency: Belarusian rubel (BR)
Exchange rates: Belarusian rubels per US$1 - 730,000 (15 December 1999), 139,000 (25 January 1999), 46,080 (2nd qtr 1998), 25,964 (1997), 15,500 (yearend 1996), 11,500 (yearend 1995)
Fiscal year: calendar year