Belarus

Facts

Population:  10,350,194 (July 2001 est.)
Age structure:  0-14 years:  17.93% (male 947,820; female 908,210) 15-64 years:  68.21% (male 3,428,920; female 3,631,290) 65 years and over:  13.86% (male 473,992; female 959,962) (2001 est.)
Population growth rate:  -0.15% (2001 est.)
Birth rate:  9.57 births/1,000 population (2001 est.)
Death rate:  13.97 deaths/1,000 population (2001 est.)
Net migration rate:  2.89 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2001 est.)
Sex ratio:  at birth:  1.05 male(s)/female under 15 years:  1.04 male(s)/female 15-64 years:  0.94 male(s)/female 65 years and over:  0.49 male(s)/female total population:  0.88 male(s)/female (2001 est.)
Infant mortality rate:  14.38 deaths/1,000 live births (2001 est.)
Life expectancy at birth:  total population:  68.14 years male:  62.06 years female:  74.52 years (2001 est.)
Total fertility rate:  1.28 children born/woman (2001 est.)
HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate:  0.28% (1999 est.)
HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS:  14,000 (1999 est.)
HIV/AIDS - deaths:  400 (1999 est.)
Nationality:  noun:  Belarusian(s) adjective:  Belarusian
Ethnic groups:  Byelorussian 81.2%, Russian 11.4%, Polish, Ukrainian, and other 7.4%
Religions:  Eastern Orthodox 80%, other (including Roman Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, and Muslim) 20% (1997 est.)
Languages:  Byelorussian, Russian, other
Literacy:  definition:  age 15 and over can read and write total population:  98% male:  99% female:  97% (1989 est.)
GDP:  purchasing power parity - $78.8 billion (2000 est.)
GDP - real growth rate:  4% (2000 est.)
GDP - per capita:  purchasing power parity - $7,500 (2000 est.)
GDP - composition by sector:  agriculture:  13% industry:  46% services:  41% (1999 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):  200% (2000 est.)
Labor force:  4.8 million (2000)
Labor force - by occupation:  industry and construction NA%, agriculture and forestry NA%, services NA%
Unemployment rate:  2.1% officially registered unemployed (December 2000); 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, television sets, chemical fibers, fertilizer, textiles, radios, refrigerators
Industrial production growth rate:  5% (2000 est.)
Electricity - production:  24.911 billion kWh (1999)
Electricity - production by source:  fossil fuel:  99.9% hydro:  0.1% nuclear:  0% other:  0% (1999)
Electricity - consumption:  27.647 billion kWh (1999)
Electricity - exports:  2.62 billion kWh (1999)
Electricity - imports:  7.1 billion kWh (1999)
Agriculture - products:  grain, potatoes, vegetables, sugar beets, flax; beef, milk
Exports:  $7.4 billion (f.o.b., 2000)
Exports - commodities:  machinery and equipment, chemicals, metals, textiles, foodstuffs
Exports - partners:  Russia 66%, Ukraine, Poland, Germany, Lithuania (1998)
Imports:  $8.3 billion (f.o.b., 2000)
Imports - commodities:  mineral products, machinery and equipment, metals, chemicals, foodstuffs
Imports - partners:  Russia 54%, Ukraine, Germany, Poland, Lithuania (1998)
Debt - external:  $1 billion (2000 est.)
Economic aid - recipient:  $194.3 million (1995)
Currency:  Belarusian ruble (BYB/BYR)
Currency code:  BYB/BYR
Exchange rates:  Belarusian rubles per US dollar - 1,180 (yearend 2000), 730,000 (15 December 1999), 139,000 (25 January 1999), 46,080 (second quarter 1998), 25,964 (1997), 15,500 (yearend 1996); note - on 1 January 2000, the national currency was redenominated at one new ruble to 2,000 old rubles
Fiscal year:  calendar year

Statistics: CIA World Factbook.

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