Economic Statistics
Actual Current and Past Data
| Industrial production | ||
|---|---|---|
| Kozloduy Nuclear Power Plant - the largest Power Plant in South-eastern Europe | ||
| Main industries | Metallurgical industry, electricity, electronics, machinery and equipment, shipbuilding, petrochemicals, cement and construction, textiles, food and beverages, mining, tourism | |
| Industrial growth rate | 5.5% (2007) | |
| Labor force | 33.6% of total labor force | |
| GDP of sector | 31.3% of total GDP | |
Household income or consumption by percentage share:
- lowest 10%: 2.9%
- highest 10%: 25.4% (25.4)
Distribution of family income - Gini index: 31.6% (2005)
Industrial production growth rate: 11.3% (Third Quarter)
Electricity:
- production: 45.7 TWh (2006)
- consumption: 37.4 TWh (2006)
- exports: 7.8 TWh (2006)
- imports: 0 TWh (2006)
Electricity - production by source:
- fossil fuel: 47.8%
- hydro: 8.1%
- nuclear: 44.1%
- other: 0% (2001)
Oil:
- production: 3,000 bbl/day (2005 est.)
- consumption: 131,400 bbl/day (2005 est.)
- exports: 51,000 (2005 est.)
- imports: 138,800 (2004 est.)
- proved reserves: 15 million bbl (1 January 2006)
Natural gas:
- production: 407,000 cu m (2005 est.)
- consumption: 5.179 billion cu m (2005 est.)
- exports: 0 cu m (2005 est.)
- imports: 5.8 billion cu m (2005)
- proved reserves: 5.703 billion cu m (1 January 2006 est.)
Agriculture - products: vegetables, fruits, tobacco, livestock, wine, wheat, barley, sunflowers, sugar beets
Current account balance: $ -5.01 billion (2006 est.)
Reserves of foreign exchange & gold: $11.78 billion (2006 est.)
Exchange rates:
| Year | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rate | 2.12 | 2.18 | 2.08 | 1.73 | 1.58 | 1.57 | 1.56 | 1.43 |
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