endanger the current
economic recovery. Debate also continues on the role of and effects
of reform in restructuring the economy, particularly with respect to
increasing income disparities.

GDP (purchasing power parity):

$4.272 trillion (2007 est.)

GDP (official exchange rate):

$4.384 trillion (2007 est.)

GDP - real growth rate:

2% (2007 est.)

GDP - per capita (PPP):

$33,500 (2007 est.)

GDP - composition by sector:

agriculture: 1.4%
industry: 26.5%
services: 72% (2007 est.)

Labor force:

66.69 million (2007 est.)

Labor force - by occupation:

agriculture: 4.6%
industry: 27.8%
services: 67.7% (2004)

Unemployment rate:

3.8% (2007 est.)

Population below poverty line:

NA%

Household income or consumption by percentage share:

lowest 10%: 4.8%
highest 10%: 21.7% (1993)

Distribution of family income - Gini index:

38.1 (2002)

Investment (gross fixed):

23.2% of GDP (2007 est.)

Budget:

revenues: $1.462 trillion
expenditures: $1.567 trillion (2007 est.)

Fiscal year:

1 April - 31 March

Public debt:

170% of GDP (2007 est.)

Inflation rate (consumer prices):

0.1% (2007 est.)

Central bank discount rate:

0.75% (31 December 2007)

Commercial bank prime lending rate:

1.88% (31 December 2007)

Stock of money:

$4.37 trillion (31 December 2007)

Stock of quasi money:

$4.783 trillion (31 December 2007)

Stock of domestic credit:

$9.653 trillion (31 December 2007)

Agriculture - products:

rice, sugar beets, vegetables, fruit; pork, poultry, dairy products,
eggs; fish

Industries:

among world's largest and technologically advanced producers of
motor vehicles, electronic equipment, machine tools, steel and
nonferrous metals, ships, chemicals, textiles, processed foods

Industrial production growth rate:

1.3% (2007 est.)

Electricity - production:

1.082 trillion kWh (2007 est.)

Electricity - consumption:

982.5 billion kWh (2006 est.)

Electricity - exports:

0 kWh (2007 est.)

Electricity - imports:

0 kWh (2007 est.)

Electricity - production by source:

fossil fuel: 60%
hydro: 8.4%
nuclear: 29.8%
other: 1.8% (2001)

Oil - production:

129,800 bbl/day (2007 est.)

Oil - consumption:

5.007 million bbl/day (2007 est.)

Oil - exports:

168,800 bbl/day (2005)

Oil - imports:

5.47 million bbl/day (2005)

Oil - proved reserves:

4