)

GDP - real growth rate:
3.2% (2006 est.)

GDP - per capita (PPP):
$43,500 (2006 est.)

GDP - composition by sector:
agriculture: 0.9%
industry: 20.4%
services: 78.6% (2006 est.)

Labor force:
151.4 million (includes unemployed) (2006)

Labor force - by occupation:
farming, forestry, and fishing 0.7%, manufacturing, extraction,
transportation, and crafts 22.9%, managerial, professional, and
technical 34.9%, sales and office 25%, other services 16.5%
note: figures exclude the unemployed (2006)

Unemployment rate:
4.6% (2006)

Population below poverty line:
12% (2004 est.)

Household income or consumption by percentage share:
lowest 10%: 1.8%
highest 10%: 30.5% (1997)

Distribution of family income - Gini index:
45 (2004)

Inflation rate (consumer prices):
2.5% (2006 est.)

Investment (gross fixed):
16.6% of GDP (2006 est.)

Budget:
revenues: $2.409 trillion
expenditures: $2.66 trillion; including capital expenditures of $NA
(2006 est.)

Public debt:
64.7% of GDP (2005 est.)

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:
4.2% (2006 est.)

Electricity - production:
3.979 trillion kWh (2004)

Electricity - production by source:
fossil fuel: 71.4%
hydro: 5.6%
nuclear: 20.7%
other: 2.3% (2001)

Electricity - consumption:
3.717 trillion kWh (2004)

Electricity - exports:
22.9 billion kWh (2004)

Electricity - imports:
34.21 billion kWh (2004)

Oil - production:
7.61 million bbl/day (2005 est.)

Oil - consumption:
20.73 million bbl/day (2004 est.)

Oil - exports:
1.048 million bbl/day (2004)

Oil - imports:
13.15 million bbl/day (2004)

Oil - proved reserves:
22.45 billion bbl (1 January 2002)

Natural gas - production:
531.1 billion cu m (2004 est.)

Natural gas - consumption:
635.1 billion cu m (2004 est.)

Natural gas - exports:
24.18 billion cu m (2004 est.)

Natural gas - imports:
120.6 billion cu m (2004 est.)

Natural gas - proved reserves:
5.451 trillion cu m (1 January 2005 est.)

Current account