Moldova 
Facts
Population: 4,320,490 (July 2007 est.).
Age structure: 0-14 years: 16.5% (male 365,733/female 347,305)
15-64 years: 72.6% (male 1,520,094/female 1,616,014)
65 years and over: 10.9% (male 175,113/female 296,231) (2007 est.).
Population growth rate: -0.11% (2007 est.).
Birth rate: 10.88 births/1,000 population (2007 est.).
Death rate: 10.85 deaths/1,000 population (2007 est.).
Net migration rate: -1.13 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2007 est.).
Sex ratio: at birth: 1.06 male(s)/female
under 15 years: 1.053 male(s)/female
15-64 years: 0.941 male(s)/female
65 years and over: 0.591 male(s)/female
total population: 0.912 male(s)/female (2007 est.).
Infant mortality rate: total: 13.88 deaths/1,000 live births
male: 15.35 deaths/1,000 live births
female: 12.33 deaths/1,000 live births (2007 est.).
Life expectancy at birth: total population: 70.2 years
male: 66.51 years
female: 74.11 years (2007 est.).
Total fertility rate: 1.25 children born/woman (2007 est.).
HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate: 0.2% (2001 est.).
HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS: 5,500 (2001 est.).
HIV/AIDS - deaths: less than 300 (2001 est.).
Nationality: noun: Moldovan(s)
adjective: Moldovan.
Ethnic groups: Moldovan/Romanian 78.2%, Ukrainian 8.4%, Russian 5.8%, Gagauz 4.4%, Bulgarian 1.9%, other 1.3% (2004 census)
note: internal disputes with ethnic Slavs in the Transnistrian region.
Religions: Eastern Orthodox 98%, Jewish 1.5%, Baptist and other 0.5% (2000).
Languages: Moldovan (official, virtually the same as the Romanian language), Russian, Gagauz (a Turkish dialect).
Literacy: definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 99.1%
male: 99.7%
female: 98.6% (2005 est.).
GDP (purchasing power parity): $9.07 billion (2006 est.).
GDP - real growth rate: 4% (2006 est.).
GDP - per capita (PPP): $2,000 (2006 est.).
GDP - composition by sector: agriculture: 21.5%
industry: 22%
services: 56.5% (2006 est.).
Labor force: 1.339 million (2006 est.).
Labor force - by occupation: agriculture: 40.7%
industry: 12.1%
services: 47.2% (2005 est.).
Population below poverty line: 29.5% (2005).
Household income or consumption by percentage share: lowest 10%: 3.2%
highest 10%: 26.4% (2003).
Inflation rate (consumer prices): 14.1% (2006 est.).
Unemployment rate: 7.3%; note - roughly 25% of working age Moldovans are employed abroad (2005 est.).
Budget: revenues: $1.318 billion
expenditures: $1.335 billion; including capital expenditures of $NA (2006 est.).
Agriculture - products: vegetables, fruits, wine, grain, sugar beets, sunflower seed, tobacco; beef, milk.
Industries: sugar, vegetable oil, food processing, agricultural machinery; foundry equipment, refrigerators and freezers, washing machines; hosiery, shoes, textiles.
Industrial production growth rate: 6.9% (2006 est.).
Electricity - production: 1.229 billion kWh (2005).
Electricity - consumption: 4.203 billion kWh (2005).
Electricity - exports: 130 million kWh (2004).
Electricity - imports: 2.9 billion kWh (2005).
Exports: $1.02 billion f.o.b. (2006 est.).
Exports - commodities: foodstuffs, textiles, machinery.
Exports - partners: Russia 32.9%, Italy 12.7%, Romania 10.6%, Ukraine 9.5%, Belarus 6.7%, Germany 4.5% (2005).
Imports: $2.65 billion f.o.b. (2006 est.).
Imports - commodities: mineral products and fuel, machinery and equipment, chemicals, textiles.
Imports - partners: Ukraine 20.9%, Russia 11.7%, Romania 11.2%, Germany 8.3%, Italy 6.6%, Turkey 4.1% (2005).
Debt - external: $2.142 billion (30 June 2006 est.).
Economic aid - recipient: $6.376 billion (2003).
Currency (code): Moldovan leu (MDL).
Exchange rates: lei per US dollar - 13.131 (2006), 12.6 (2005), 12.33 (2004), 13.945 (2003), 13.571 (2002).
Fiscal year: calendar year.
Statistics: C.I.A. World Factbook. Updated: July 20, 2007.
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(News agency), Chisinau
http://www.deca-press.net/
(News agency), Chisinau
http://www.info-prim.md/
(English-language news agency), Chisinau
http://www.infotag.md/news_en_2/
(Independent), Chisinau
http://www.jurnal.md/
(English-language news agency), Chisinau
http://www.reporter.md/eng/
(Independent), Chisinau
http://www.timpul.mdl.net/
(Pro-secessionist), Tiraspol
http://www.tiraspoltimes.com/
Moldova in the News
Popular protests about the recent Community Party win in Moldova is unlikely to change the country's political landscape.
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