st.)

GDP - real growth rate:
4.9% (2004 est.)

GDP - per capita:
purchasing power parity - $8,800 (2004 est.)

GDP - composition by sector:
agriculture: 4%
industry: 32%
services: 64% (2004 est.)

Labor force:
NA

Labor force - by occupation:
agriculture NA%, industry NA%, services NA%

Unemployment rate:
30% combined unemployment and underemployment in many
non-industrialized countries; developed countries typically 4%-12%
unemployment

Household income or consumption by percentage share:
lowest 10%: NA %
highest 10%: NA %

Inflation rate (consumer prices):
developed countries 1% to 4% typically; developing countries 5% to
60% typically; national inflation rates vary widely in individual
cases, from declining prices in Japan to hyperinflation in several
Third World countries (2004 est.)

Industries:
dominated by the onrush of technology, especially in computers,
robotics, telecommunications, and medicines and medical equipment;
most of these advances take place in OECD nations; only a small
portion of non-OECD countries have succeeded in rapidly adjusting to
these technological forces; the accelerated development of new
industrial (and agricultural) technology is complicating already
grim environmental problems

Industrial production growth rate:
3% (2003 est.)

Electricity - production:
15.29 trillion kWh (2002 est.)

Electricity - production by source:
fossil fuel: NA
hydro: NA
nuclear: NA
other: NA (2001)

Electricity - consumption:
14.28 trillion kWh (2002 est.)

Electricity - exports:
500.8 billion kWh (2002 est.)

Electricity - imports:
497.6 billion kWh (2002 est.)

Oil - production:
76.01 million bbl/day (2001 est.)

Oil - consumption:
77.04 million bbl/day (2001 est.)

Oil - proved reserves:
1.025 trillion bbl (1 January 2002 est.)

Natural gas - production:
2.637 trillion cu m (2001 est.)

Natural gas - consumption:
2.599 trillion cu m (2001 est.)

Natural gas - exports:
693.7 billion cu m (2001 est.)

Natural gas - imports:
718.7 billion cu m (2001 est.)

Natural gas - proved reserves:
161.2 trillion cu m (1 January 2002)

Exports:
$8.819 trillion f.o.b. (2003 est.)

Exports - commodities:
the whole range of industrial and agricultural goods and services

Exports - partners:
US 15.7%, Germany 7.7%, China 5.4%, France 5.1%, UK 5.1%, Japan
4.5% (2004)

Imports: