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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.