fficial
"absolute poverty" line (approximately $90 per year); and an
additional 35.5 million rural population above that but below the
official "low income" line (approximately $125 per year) (2006 est.)

Household income or consumption by percentage share:

lowest 10%: 1.6%
highest 10%: 34.9% (2004)

Distribution of family income - Gini index:

47 (2007)

Investment (gross fixed):

42.7% of GDP (2007 est.)

Budget:

revenues: $674.3 billion
expenditures: $651.6 billion (2007 est.)

Fiscal year:

calendar year

Public debt:

18.4% of GDP (2007 est.)

Inflation rate (consumer prices):

4.8% (2007 est.)

Central bank discount rate:

3.33% (31 December 2007)

Commercial bank prime lending rate:

7.47% (31 December 2007)

Stock of money:

$2.09 trillion (31 December 2007)

Stock of quasi money:

$3.437 trillion (31 December 2007)

Stock of domestic credit:

$4.653 trillion (31 December 2007)

Agriculture - products:

rice, wheat, potatoes, corn, peanuts, tea, millet, barley, apples,
cotton, oilseed; pork; fish

Industries:

mining and ore processing, iron, steel, aluminum, and other metals,
coal; machine building; armaments; textiles and apparel; petroleum;
cement; chemicals; fertilizers; consumer products, including
footwear, toys, and electronics; food processing; transportation
equipment, including automobiles, rail cars and locomotives, ships,
and aircraft; telecommunications equipment, commercial space launch
vehicles, satellites

Industrial production growth rate:

13.4% (2007 est.)

Electricity - production:

3.256 trillion kWh (2007)

Electricity - consumption:

2.859 trillion kWh (2006)

Electricity - exports:

14.04 billion kWh (2007 est.)

Electricity - imports:

4.771 billion kWh (2007 est.)

Electricity - production by source:

fossil fuel: 80.2%
hydro: 18.5%
nuclear: 1.2%
other: 0.1% (2001)

Oil - production:

3.725 million bbl/day (2008 est.)

Oil - consumption:

7.578 million bbl/day (2007 est.)

Oil - exports:

79,060 bbl/day (2007)

Oil - imports:

3.19 million bbl/day (2007)

Oil - proved reserves:

16 billion bbl (1 January 2008 est.)

Natural gas - production:

69.27 billion cu m (2007 est.)

Natural gas - consumption:

70.51 billion cu m (2007 est.)

Natural gas - exports:

2.69 billion cu m (2007 est.)

Natural gas - imports:

3.92 billion cu m (2007 e