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Kurgan Oblast

Population: 1,104,700 Capital:  Kurgan (368,000)
Urban %:  55 Rural %: 45
Area (km2 ): 71,000 Population density (per km2): 16
Average temperature, centigrade January:    -14 Average temperature, centigrade July:    21
Average rainfall, mm January: 4 Average rainfall, mm July: 30

 

Kurgan Oblast Republic value    Urals mean    % Urals mean 

ECONOMIC COMPETITIVENESS
Wage levels 1000 rbls/month, 1995 339 444 77
Industrial productivity mln rbls/employee 43 67 63
GDP/capita rbls, million 6 10 57
GDP 1995 bln rbls 6,343 29,239* 22

LABOUR MARKET CHANGE
Employed, % labour force 92 92 100

SOCIAL COHESION, EXCLUSION, STABILITY   
Life expectancy in years (male) 59 58 102
Life expectancy in years (female) 72 72 100
Hospital beds per 10,000 126 133 95
Students in higher education per 10,000 120 146 82

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


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