; developed countries typically 4%-12%
unemployment (2001 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: 6% (2000 est.)

Electricity - production by source: fossil fuel: NA% hydro: NA% nuclear:
NA% other: NA%

Exports: $6.3 trillion (f.o.b., 2001 est.)

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

Exports - partners: in value, about 75% of exports from the developed
countries

Imports: $6.3 trillion (f.o.b., 2001 est.)

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

Imports - partners: in value, about 75% of imports into the developed
countries

Debt - external: $2 trillion for less developed countries (2001 est.)

Economic aid - recipient: official development assistance (ODA) $50
billion (2001 est.)

Communications World

Telephones - main lines in use: NA

Telephones - mobile cellular: NA

Telephone system: general assessment: NA domestic: NA international: NA

Radio broadcast stations: AM NA, FM NA, shortwave NA

Radios: NA

Television broadcast stations: NA

Televisions: NA

Internet Service Providers (ISPs): 10,350 (2000 est.)

Internet users: 513.41 million (2001 est.)

Transportation World

Railways: total: 1,201,337 km includes about 190,000 to 195,000 km of
electrified routes of which 147,760 km are in Europe, 24,509 km in the
Far East, 11,050 km in Africa, 4,223 km in South America, and 4,160 km
in North America; note - fastest speed in daily service is 300 km/hr
attained by France's Societe Nationale des Chemins-de-Fer Francais
(SNCF) Le Train a Grande Vitesse (TGV) - Atlantique line broad gauge:
251,153 km narrow gauge: 239,430 km standard gauge: 710,754 km

Highways: total: NA km paved: NA km unpaved: NA km

Ports and harbors: Chiba, Houston, Kawasaki, Kobe, Marseille, Mina'
al Ahmadi (Kuwait), New Orleans, New York, Rotterdam, Yokohama

Military World

Military expenditures - dollar figure: aggregate real expenditure on
arms worldwide in