RUSSIA, BY THE NUMBERS

RAW STATS Ethnic groups:

Russians 52%, Ukrainians 16%,

Uzbeks 5%, many others

TV sets: 85 million (U.S.: 143 million)

Radios: 164 million (U.S.: 484 million)

Phones: 26 million (U.S.: 134 million)

Passenger cars and commercial vehicles:

17 million

(California: 18 million; U.S.: 170 million)

Nobel laureates: 14 (U.S.: 175)

Doctors: 896,000 (U.S.: 361,000)

Per capita consumption of alcohol:

3.3 liters (U.S.: 9 liters)

Communist Party membership, 1978:

17 million (U.S.: 20,000)

Railroad mileage: 141,800 (U.S.: 286,000)

Road mileage: 1.3 million (U.S.: 6.2 million)

Cost of Levi’s on black market: $300

HEALTH Infant mortality per 1,000 live births:

34 (U.S.: 10.5)

Life expectancy at birth:

Males, 62 years (U.S.: 71.6)

Females, 73 (U.S.: 76.3)

Births per 1,000: 19.6 (U.S.: 15.8)

Deaths per 1,000: 10.8 (U.S.: 8.8)

Average number of abortions per woman: 6

ECONOMIC Ruble now equals $1.48

Monthly salary of average worker:

Less than $300

1984 Soviet gross national product:

$734 billion (1985 U.S.: $3.8 trillion)

Largest cities: Moscow (8.8 million),

Leningrad (4.7), Kiev (2.4)

Industrial workers as a percent of work force: 45% (U.S.: 32%)

Agricultural workers as percent of work force: 20% (U.S.: 3.5%)

DIVERSIONS Annual movie attendance:

4.1 billion (U.S.: 1.04)

Annual movies seen per capita:

15.7 (U.S.: 4.7)

Movie theaters: 144,000 (U.S.: 13,331)

1980 film production: 184 (1980 U.S.: 248)

Daily newspapers: 639 (U.S.: 1,800)

1980 books published:

80,000 titles (U.S.: 85,000)

1980 periodicals: 4,700 (U.S.: 59,000)

Museums: 1,465 (U.S.: 4,609)

Public Libraries: 1.6 million (U.S.: 387,000)

WORLD RANKINGS No. 1:

in size (2 1/2 times larger than U.S.)

in battle deaths, 1816-1980:

9.7 million in 19 wars

(U.S.: 664,000 in 8 wars)

in abortions (U.S.: 9th)

in doctors, public libraries, books

in sheep, potatoes, barley, milk, sugar,

wheat, cotton

in steel, cement, silver, oil, coal, coal reserves

No. 2 in heavy industry behind U.S.

in world in men and women under arms:

3.6 million

(U.S. No. 3: 2 million)

in tractors: 2.5 million (U.S.: 4.3 million)

No. 3 in world population: 278 million

in Jewish population: 2.6 million

(U.S. No. 1: 5.9 million)

in eggs, meat and TVs

Sources: “The New Book of World Rankings” (1984); The World Almanac, 1987; “Reluctant Farewell,” by Andrew Nagorski; the New York Times.