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

Distribution of family income - Gini index:
38.12 (2002)

Inflation rate (consumer prices):
0.4% (2006 est.)

Investment (gross fixed):
23.7% of GDP (2006 est.)

Budget:
revenues: $1.411 trillion
expenditures: $1.639 trillion; including capital expenditures
(public works only) of about $71 billion (2006 est.)

Public debt:
175.5% of GDP (2006 est.)

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:
3.3% (2006 est.)

Electricity - production:
974.4 billion kWh (2004)

Electricity - production by source:
fossil fuel: 60%
hydro: 8.4%
nuclear: 29.8%
other: 1.8% (2001)

Electricity - consumption:
906.2 billion kWh (2004)

Electricity - exports:
0 kWh (2004)

Electricity - imports:
0 kWh (2004)

Oil - production:
120,600 bbl/day (2004 est.)

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

Oil - exports:
93,360 bbl/day (2001)

Oil - imports:
5.449 million bbl/day (2001)

Oil - proved reserves:
29.29 million bbl (1 January 2002)

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

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

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

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

Natural gas - proved reserves:
39.64 billion cu m (1 January 2005 est.)

Current account balance:
$174.4 billion (2006 est.)

Exports:
$590.3 billion f.o.b. (2006 est.)

Exports - commodities:
transport equipment, motor vehicles, semiconductors, electrical
machinery, chemicals

Exports - partners:
US 22.9%, China 13.4%, South Korea 7.8%, Taiwan 7.3%, Hong Kong
6.1% (2005)

Imports:
$524.1 billion f.o.b. (2006 est.)

Imports - commodities:
machinery and equipment, fuels, foodstuffs, chemicals, textiles,
raw materials (2001)

Imports - partners:
China 21%, US 12.7%, Saudi Arabia 5.5%, UAE 4.9%, Australia 4.7%,
South Korea 4.7%, Indonesia 4% (2005)

Reserves of foreign exchange and gold:
$864.7 billion (August 2006 est.)

Debt - external:
$1.547 trillion (30 June 2006)

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