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Albania

GDP (purchasing power parity): $23.07 billion note: Albania has a large gray economy that may be as large as 50% of official GDP (2008 est.)
GDP (official exchange rate): $13.52 billion (2008 est.)
GDP – real growth rate: 6% (2008 est.)
GDP – per capita (PPP): $6,400 (2008 est.)
GDP – composition by sector: Agriculture: 20.6%, Industry: 19.9%, Services: 59.5% (2008 est.)
Labor force: 1.09 million (Not including 352,000 emigrant workers) (September 2006 est.)
Labor force – by occupation: Agriculture: 58%, Industry: 15%, Services: 27% (September 2006 est.)
Unemployment rate: 12.5% official rate, but may exceed 30% due to preponderance of near-subsistence farming (2008 est.)
Population below poverty line: 25% (2004 est.)
Household income or consumption by percentage share: lowest 10%: 3.4%, highest 10%: 24.4% (2004)
Distribution of family income – Gini index: 26.7 (2005)
Inflation rate (consumer prices): 4% (2008 est.)
Investment (gross fixed): 22.8% of GDP (2008 est.)
Budget: Revenues: $3.771 billion, expenditures: $4.538 billion (2008 est.)
Public debt: 51.2% of GDP (2008 est.)
Industries: food processing, textiles and clothing; lumber, oil, cement, chemicals, mining, basic metals, hydropower
Electricity – production: 2.892 billion kWh (2007 est.)
Electricity – consumption: 3.607 billion kWh (2007 est.)
Electricity – imports: 2.8 billion kWh (2007 est.)
Oil – production: 6,425 bbl/day (2007 est.)
Oil – consumption: 30,900 bbl/day (2006 est.)
Oil – exports: 748.9 bbl/day (2005 est.)
Oil – imports: 24,860 bbl/day (2005 est.)
Oil – proved reserves: 199.1 million bbl (1 January 2008 est.)
Natural gas – production: 30 million cu m (2006 est.)
Natural gas – consumption: 30 million cu m (2006 est.)

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