Gross Domestic Product, 1993-96a				Percent
	1993	1994	1995	1996
Real growth	-23	-19	-4	-10
Per capita real growth	-23	-19	-4	-9

^a Official statistics for 1993; estimates of unofficial economy included for 1994-96.

Industrial Production Growth by Selected Sector, 1993-96b				Percent
	1993	1994	1995	1996
Total Production	-14.1	-28.0	-11	-5.1
Fuels	-23.1	NA	NA	NA
Electric power	-9.9	-11.7	-5	NA
Metallurgy	-21.4	-29.0	NA	NA
Machinery	-20.0	-43.0	-26.9	NA
Chemicals	-23.7	-26.4	NA	NA
Construction materials	-18.9	-36.0	-29	NA
Light industry	-15.2	-47.0	-34	NA
Food processing	-11.0	-18.0	-14	NA

^b Official statistics.

Labor Force by Sector, 1996c	Percent
Industry and construction	30
Agriculture and forestry	22
Trade and distribution	7
Transportation and communications	6
Other	35

^c Official estimates.

Agricultural Production by Selected Commodity, 1993-96d				Thousand metric tons
	1993	1994	1995	1996
Production growth (percent)	-1.0	-17.0	-4.0	-8.0
Total grainse	45,600	35,500	33,900	24,500
Potatoes	20,900	16,100	14,700	18,400
Vegetables	5,800	5,000	5,800	5,000
Fruit, berries, and grapes	NA	1,200	1,837	NA
Sugar beets	33,600	27,600	29,398	22,812
Sunflower seeds	2,200	1,600	2,857	2,123
Meatf	2,900	2,600	2,316	2,100
Milk	18,100	18,211	17,181	15,900
Eggs (billion)	11.8	10.1	9.4	8.8

^d Official statistics.
^e Clean weight includes wheat, rye, barley, corn, oats, millet, buckwheat, rice, pulses, and miscellaneous grains.
^f Includes beef, veal, pork, mutton, kid, poultry, offals, and slaughter fat.

Foreign Trade, 1994-96g			Billion US $
	1994	1995	1996
Exports	9.6	11.3	14.0
Imports	10.5	10.2	17.2
Balance	-0.9	1.1	-3.2

^g Official statistics, excludes trade with other former Soviet republics. ^h Official statistics.
ⁱ Includes gas condensates.

Selected Energy Indicators, 1994-96h
	1994	1995	1996
Oil (thousand b/d)i	84	80	82
Natural gas (billion mc )	18.3	18.1	18.4
Coal (million metric tons)	94.4	83.6	70.3
Electricity (billion kWh)	200.8	192	181

Selected Transportation Indicators, 1993-96j				Million metric tons
	1993	1994	1995	1996
Rail freight	532	407	360	296
Truck freight	439	242	160	74

^j Official statistics.

Per Capita Consumption of Selected Foods, 1991-95k				Kilograms
	1991	1992	1994	1995
Meatl	66	54	50	38.5
Milk	346	286	335	245
Eggs (units)	256	212	300	172
Fish	12.2	7.2	NA	NA
Sugar	50	45.4	50	NA
Vegetable oil	11.2	11.0	NA	NA
Potatoes	116	131	163	NA
Vegetables	102	92	95	NA
Grain productsm	143	143	160	NA

^k Official statistics.

^l Includes offals and slaughter fat.

^m In terms of flour.