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President: Vladimir PUTIN (elected March 26, 2000), prior Boris N. Yeltsin (1991 until 31.12.1999)
Prime Minister: Mikhail Yefimovich FRADKOV (since 5 March 2004)
Next elections: March 2008
Area: 6,592,800 sq mi. (17,075,200 sq km)
Population (2002):143,420,309 (July 2005 est., average annual rate of natural decrease: –0.37%); birth rate: 9.8/1000; infant mortality rate: 15.4/1000; density per sq.km.: 8.4; current fertility rate: 1.27 children born/woman (2005 est.) |
Vladimir Putin |
Boris N. Yeltsin |
| Capital and largest city : Moscow: city (2005 est.) 10.4 Mio.
Other large cities (2005 est): St. Petersburg, 4.1 Mio; Novosibirsk, 1.4 Mio; Nizhny Novgorod, 1.3; Yekaterinburg, 1.3 Mio; Samara, 1.15 Mio, Omsk, 1.14 Mio; Kazan, 1.09 Mio; Ufa, 1.09 Mio; Chelyabinsk, 1.08 Mio; Perm, 1.01 Mio.
Monetary unit: Ruble (banknotes since 1961)
Religions: Russian Orthodox, Muslim, others
Ethnicity/Race: Russian 81.5%, Tatar 3.8%, Ukrainian 3%, Chuvash 1.2%, Bashkir 0.9%, Byelorussian 0.8%, Moldavian 0.7%, other 8.1%
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Languages: Russian, others
Literacy rate: 98% | | Life expectancy male: 60.5, female: 74.0 (2005 est.).
2001 figures for comparison: male: 62.1 years, female: 72.8 years
Economic data: GDP/PPP (est. 2004): 1.4 trillion $ (1998: $593.3 billion) $9,800 per capita
Growth rate: 6.7%; Inflation: 11.5% (2004), 16.2% (2002), 20.6% (2001).
Unemployment:8.3% (est. 2004), considerable underemployment.
Labor force 71.8m (2004), 72.3m (2001)
Exports: $162bn (2004), $103bn (2001): petroleum and petroleum products, natural gas, wood and wood products, coal, nonferrous metals, chemicals, civilian and military manufacturers.
Imports: $92bn (2004), $52bn (2001) : machinery and equipment, chemicals, consumer goods, grain, meat, semifinished metal products.
Major trading partners: Europe, N. America, Japan, China
External debt: 28% of GDP; State budget: revenues of $106.4bn with expenditures of $93bn
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