industry: 23%
services: 75% (1996 est.)

Inflation rate - consumer price index: 3% (1996 est.)

Labor force:
total: 133.943 million (includes unemployed) (1996)
by occupation: managerial and professional 28.8%, technical, sales and
administrative support 29.7%, services 13.6%, manufacturing, mining,
transportation, and crafts 25.1%, farming, forestry, and fishing 2.8%

Unemployment rate: 5.4% (1996)

Budget:
revenues: $1.351 trillion
expenditures: $1.514 trillion, including capital expenditures of $NA
(1995)

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: 3.1% (1996)

Electricity - capacity: 702.7 million kW (1995)

Electricity - production: 3.5357 trillion kWh (1995)

Electricity - consumption per capita: 11,636 kWh (1994 est.)

Agriculture - products: wheat, other grains, corn, fruits, vegetables,
cotton; beef, pork, poultry, dairy products; forest products; fish

Exports:
total value: $584.7 billion (f.o.b., 1995)
commodities : capital goods, automobiles, industrial supplies and raw
materials, consumer goods, agricultural products
partners: Canada 22%, Western Europe 21%, Japan 11%, Mexico 8% (1995)

Imports:
total value: $771 billion (c.i.f., 1995)
commodities: crude oil and refined petroleum products, machinery,
automobiles, consumer goods, industrial raw materials, food and
beverages
partners : Canada, 20%, Western Europe 18%, Japan 16.5%, Mexico 8%
(1995)

Debt - external: $862 billion (1995 est.)

Economic aid:
donor : ODA, $9.721 billion (1993)

Currency: 1 United States dollar (US$) = 100 cents

Exchange rates: British pounds (L) per US$ - 0.6023 (January 1997),
0.6403 (1996), 0.6335 (1995), 0.6529 (1994), 0.6658 (1993), 0.5664
(1992); Canadian dollars (Can$) per US$ - 1.3486 (January 1997),
1.3635 (1996), 1.3724 (1995), 1.3656 (1994), 1.2901 (1993), 1.2087
(1992); French francs (F) per US$ - 5.4169 (January 1997), 5.1155
(1996), 4.9915 (1995), 5.5520 (1994), 5.6632 (1993), 5.2938 (1992);
Italian lire (Lit) per US$ - 1,568.1 (January 1997), 1,542.9 (1996),
1,628.9 (1995), 1,612.4 (1994), 1,573.7 (1993), 1,232.4 (1992);
Japanese yen (Y) per US$ - 118.02 (January 1997), 108.78 (1996), 94.06
(1995), 102.21 (1994), 111.20 (1993), 126.65 (1992); German deutsche
ma