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GDP: Purchasing power parity - $23.77 billion (2003 est.)
GDP - real growth rate: 6.8% (2003 est.)
GDP - per capita: purchasing power parity - $10,100 (2003 est.)
GDP - composition: Agriculture: 4.5% Industry: 20.9% Services: 74.6% (2002)
Household income or consumption by percentage share:lowest 10%: 2.9% highest 10%: 25.9% (1998)
Inflation rate (consumer prices): 2.8% (2003 est.)
Labor force: 1.1 million (2001 est.)
Labor force - by occupation: Agriculture 15%, Industry 25%, Services 60% (2000 est.)
Unemployment rate: 8.7% (2003 est.)
Budget: revenues $2.4 billion, Expenditures: $2.6 billion, including capital expenditures of $NA (2002 est.)

Industries: buses, vans, street and railroad cars, synthetic fibers, agricultural machinery, fertilizers, washing machines, radios, electronics, pharmaceuticals, processed foods, textiles; note - dependent on imports for energy and raw materials
Industrial production growth rate: 5.7% (2002 est.)
Electricity - production:4.365 billion kWh (2001)
Electricity - production by source: fossil fuel: 29.1% hydro: 70.9% other: 0%Nuclear: 0%

Agriculture - products: Grain, sugar beets, potatoes, vegetables; beef, pork, milk, eggs; fish

Exports: $3 billion f.o.b. (2003 est.)
Exports - commodities: wood and wood products, machinery and equipment, metals, textiles, foodstuffs
Exports - partners: Germany 15.3%, UK 14.4%, Sweden 10.4%, Lithuania 8.2%, Estonia 5.9%, Russia 5.8%, Denmark 5.6%, US 4.3% (2002)

Imports: $4.921 billion f.o.b. (2003 est.)
Imports - commodities: Machinery and equipment, chemicals, fuels, vehicles
Imports - partners: Germany 17.2%, Lithuania 9.8%, Russia 8.8%, Finland 8%, Sweden 6.4%, Estonia 6.2%, Poland 5%, Italy 4.2% (2002)

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