Russia 
Facts
Population: 141,377,752 (July 2007 est.).
Age structure: 0-14 years: 14.6% (male 10,563,567/female 10,021,316)
15-64 years: 71.1% (male 48,412,612/female 52,061,604)
65 years and over: 14.4% (male 6,360,038/female 13,958,615) (2007 est.).
Population growth rate: -0.484% (2007 est.).
Birth rate: 10.92 births/1,000 population (2007 est.).
Death rate: 16.04 deaths/1,000 population (2007 est.).
Net migration rate: 0.28 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2007 est.).
Sex ratio: at birth: 1.06 male(s)/female
under 15 years: 1.054 male(s)/female
15-64 years: 0.93 male(s)/female
65 years and over: 0.456 male(s)/female
total population: 0.859 male(s)/female (2007 est.).
Infant mortality rate: total: 11.06 deaths/1,000 live births
male: 12.6 deaths/1,000 live births
female: 9.42 deaths/1,000 live births (2007 est.).
Life expectancy at birth: total population: 65.87 years
male: 59.12 years
female: 73.03 years (2007 est.).
Total fertility rate: 1.39 children born/woman (2007 est.).
HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate: 1.1% (2001 est.).
HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS: 860,000 (2001 est.).
HIV/AIDS - deaths: 9,000 (2001 est.).
Nationality: noun: Russian(s)
adjective: Russian.
Ethnic groups: Russian 79.8%, Tatar 3.8%, Ukrainian 2%, Bashkir 1.2%, Chuvash 1.1%, other or unspecified 12.1% (2002 census).
Religions: Russian Orthodox 15-20%, Muslim 10-15%, other Christian 2% (2006 est.)
note: estimates are of practicing worshipers; Russia has large populations of non-practicing believers and non-believers, a legacy of over seven decades of Soviet rule.
Languages: Russian, many minority languages.
Literacy: definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 99.4%
male: 99.7%
female: 99.2% (2002 census).
GDP (purchasing power parity): $1.746 trillion (2006 est.).
GDP - real growth rate: 6.7% (2006 est.).
GDP - per capita (PPP): $12,200 (2006 est.).
GDP - composition by sector: agriculture: 5.3%
industry: 36.6%
services: 58.2% (2006 est.).
Labor force: 73.88 million (2006 est.).
Labor force - by occupation: agriculture: 10.8%
industry: 29.1%
services: 60.1% (2005 est.).
Population below poverty line: 17.8% (2004 est.).
Household income or consumption by percentage share: lowest 10%: 1.7%
highest 10%: 38.7% (1998).
Inflation rate (consumer prices): 9.8% (2006 est.).
Unemployment rate: 6.6% plus considerable underemployment (2006 est.).
Budget: revenues: $222.2 billion
expenditures: $157.3 billion; including capital expenditures of $NA (2006 est.).
Agriculture - products: grain, sugar beets, sunflower seed, vegetables, fruits; beef, milk.
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; defense industries including radar, missile production, and advanced electronic components, 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: 4.8% (2006 est.).
Electricity - production: 952.4 billion kWh (2005).
Electricity - consumption: 940 billion kWh (2005).
Electricity - exports: 22.3 billion kWh (2005).
Electricity - imports: 9.9 billion kWh (2005).
Exports: $317.6 billion (2006 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: Netherlands 10.3%, Germany 8.3%, Italy 7.9%, China 5.5%, Ukraine 5.2%, Turkey 4.5%, Switzerland 4.4% (2005).
Imports: $171.5 billion (2006 est.).
Imports - commodities: machinery and equipment, consumer goods, medicines, meat, sugar, semifinished metal products.
Imports - partners: Germany 13.6%, Ukraine 8%, China 7.4%, Japan 6%, Belarus 4.7%, US 4.7%, Italy 4.6%, South Korea 4.1% (2005).
Debt - external: $287.4 billion (30 June 2006 est.).
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 (code): Russian ruble (RUR).
Exchange rates: Russian rubles per US dollar - 27.2 (2006), 28.284 (2005), 28.814 (2004), 30.692 (2003), 31.349 (2002).
Fiscal year: calendar year.
Statistics: C.I.A. World Factbook. Updated: July 20, 2007.
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In the first of three articles published on the 10th anniversary of the start of the first war in Chechnya, reporters at the Moscow Times explore the effect of the conflict on Russia.
Chechnya is not only crucial to the world as an oil source, but as a prime location for transferring oil from the Caspian Sea to the Black Sea and, from there to the West. Whoever controls the territory controls this flow of oil and thus makes money. By staying in Chechnya, Russia is directly influencing this movement of oil and profiting handsomely.
Translation of an editorial by Abd al-Rahman al-Rashid. His indictment of Muslim terrorists has stirred up a hornet's nest of debate.
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