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Sverdlovsk Oblast

Population: 4,667,800 Capital:  Yekaterinburg (formerly Sverdlovsk) (1,392,000)
Urban %:  88 Rural %: 12
Area (km2 ): 194,800 Population density (per km2): 24
Average temperature, centigrade January:    -12 Average temperature, centigrade July:    18
Average rainfall, mm January: 11 Average rainfall, mm July: 82

 
Sverdlovsk Oblast Oblast value    Urals mean    % Urals mean 

ECONOMIC COMPETITIVENESS
GDP 1995 bln rbls 58,098 29,239* 199
GDP/capita rbls, million 12 10 124
Wage levels 1000 rbls/month, 1995 502 444 113
Industrial productivity mln rbls/employee 68 67 101

LABOUR MARKET CHANGE
Employed, % labour force 92 92 100

SOCIAL COHESION, EXCLUSION, STABILITY   
Students in higher education per 10,000 175 146 120
Hospital beds per 10,000 137 133 103
Life expectancy in years (male) 58 58 99
Life expectancy in years (female) 71 72 99

* mean per Republic/Oblast= one seventh of total GDP for Urals.


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