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Economy Russia
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Population: 143,782,338 (July 2004 est.)
Capital: Moscow
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Tabular Data - The Russian Economy

GDP : purchasing power parity - $1.282 trillion (2003 est.)
GDP - Real Growth Rate : 7.3% (2003 est.)
GDP - Per Capita : purchasing power parity - $8,900 (2003 est.)
GDP - Composition By Sector : agriculture: 5.2%
industry: 35.1%
services: 59.8% (2003 est.)
Population Below Poverty Line : 25% (January 2003 est.)
Household Income or Consumption by Percentage : lowest 10%: 5.9%
highest 10%: 47% (2001)
Inflation Rate (Consumer Prices) : 13.7% (2003 est.)
Labor Force : 71.68 million (2003 est.)
Labor Force - By Occupation : agriculture 12.3%, industry 22.7%, services 65% (2002 est.)
Budget : revenues: $83.99 billion
expenditures: $73.75 billion, including capital expenditures of NA (2003)
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 : 7% (2003 est.)
Electricity - Production : 915 billion kWh (2003)
Electricity - Production by Source : fossil fuel: 66.3%
hydro: 17.2%
nuclear: 16.4%
other: 0.1% (2003)
Electricity - Consumption : 773 billion kWh (2001)
Electricity - Exports : 21.16 billion kWh (2001)
Electricity - Imports : 7 billion kWh (2001)
Agriculture - Products : grain, sugar beets, sunflower seed, vegetables, fruits; beef, milk
Exports : $134.4 billion (2003 est.)
Exports - Commodities : petroleum and petroleum products, natural gas, wood and wood products, metals, chemicals, and a wide variety of civilian and military manufactures
Exports - Partners : Germany 8.4%, Italy 6.2%, China 5.8%, Ukraine 5.7%, Belarus 5.7%, Netherlands 5.6%, Switzerland 5%, US 4.6% (2003 est.)
Imports : $74.8 billion (2003 est.)
Imports - Commodities : machinery and equipment, consumer goods, medicines, meat, sugar, semifinished metal products
Imports - Partners : Germany 15.4%, Belarus 7.7%, China 7.4%, Ukraine 6.6%, Italy 4.9%, US 4.6%, France 4.5%, Kazakhstan 4.1%, Finland 4.1% (2003 est.)
Debt - External : $175.9 billion (2003)
Economic Aid - Recipient : in FY01 from US, $979 million (including $750 million in non-proliferation subsidies); in 2001 from EU, $200 million (2000 est.)
Currency : Russian ruble (RUR)
Currency Code : RUR
Exchange Rates : Russian rubles per US dollar - 30.692 (2003), 31.3485 (2002), 29.1685 (2001), 28.1292 (2000), 24.6199 (1999)
note: the post-1 January 1998 ruble is equal to 1,000 of the pre-1 January 1998 rubles
Fiscal Year : Calendar Year

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Data Source: Central Intelligence Agency 2004 World Factbook