chasing power parity):
$13.78 trillion (2007 est.)
GDP (official exchange rate):
$13.84 trillion (2007 est.)
GDP - real growth rate:
2% (2007 est.)
GDP - per capita (PPP):
$45,800 (2007 est.)
GDP - composition by sector:
agriculture: 1.2%
industry: 19.8%
services: 79% (2007 est.)
Labor force:
153.1 million (includes unemployed) (2007 est.)
Labor force - by occupation:
farming, forestry, and fishing 0.6%, manufacturing, extraction,
transportation, and crafts 22.6%, managerial, professional, and
technical 35.5%, sales and office 24.8%, other services 16.5%
note: figures exclude the unemployed (2007)
Unemployment rate:
4.6% (2007 est.)
Population below poverty line:
12% (2004 est.)
Household income or consumption by percentage share:
lowest 10%: 2%
highest 10%: 30% (2007 est.)
Distribution of family income - Gini index:
45 (2007)
Investment (gross fixed):
15.5% of GDP (2007 est.)
Budget:
revenues: $2.568 trillion
expenditures: $2.73 trillion (2007 est.)
Fiscal year:
1 October - 30 September
Public debt:
60.8% of GDP (2007 est.)
Inflation rate (consumer prices):
2.9% (2007 est.)
Central bank discount rate:
4.83% (31 December 2007)
Commercial bank prime lending rate:
8.05% (31 December 2007)
Stock of money:
$1.374 trillion (31 December 2007)
Stock of quasi money:
$10.1 trillion (31 December 2007)
Stock of domestic credit:
$14.15 trillion (31 December 2007)
Agriculture - products:
wheat, corn, other grains, fruits, vegetables, cotton; beef, pork,
poultry, dairy products; fish; forest products
Industries:
leading industrial power in the world, highly diversified and
technologically advanced; petroleum, steel, motor vehicles,
aerospace, telecommunications, chemicals, electronics, food
processing, consumer goods, lumber, mining
Industrial production growth rate:
-1.7% (2007 est.)
Electricity - production:
4.167 trillion kWh (2007 est.)
Electricity - consumption:
3.892 trillion kWh (2007 est.)
Electricity - exports:
20.14 billion kWh (2007 est.)
Electricity - imports:
51.4 billion kWh (2007 est.)
Electricity - production by source:
fossil fuel: 71.4%
hydro: 5.6%
nuclear: 20.7%
other: 2.3% (2001)
Oil - production:
8.457 million bbl/day (2007 est.)
Oil - consumption:
20.68 million bbl/day (2007 est.)
Oil - expo
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