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GDP (purchasing power parity):	$14.58 trillion (2008 est.)
GDP (official exchange rate):	$14.33 trillion (2008 est.)
GDP - real growth rate:	1.4% (2008 est.)
GDP - per capita (PPP):	$48,000 (2008 est.)
GDP - composition by sector:	agriculture: 1.2% industry: 19.6% services: 79.2% (2008 est.)
Labor force:	155.2 million (includes unemployed) (2008 est.)
Labor force - by occupation:	farming, forestry, and fishing 0.6%, manufacturing, extraction, transportation, and crafts 22.6%, managerial, professional, and technical 35.5%, sales and office 24.8%, other services 16.5% note: figures exclude the unemployed (2007)
Unemployment rate:	7.2% (December 2008)
Household income or consumption by percentage share:	lowest 10%: 2% highest 10%: 30% (2007 est.)
Distribution of family income - Gini index:	45 (2007)
Investment (gross fixed):	14.6% of GDP (2008 est.)
Budget:	revenues: $2.524 trillion expenditures: $2.979 trillion (2008 est.)
Public debt:	60.8% of GDP (2007 est.)
Inflation rate (consumer prices):	4.2% (2008 est.)
Central bank discount rate:	4.83% (31 December 2007)
Commercial bank prime lending rate:	8.05% (31 December 2007)
Stock of money:	$1.374 trillion (31 December 2007)
Stock of quasi money:	$10.1 trillion (31 December 2007)
Stock of domestic credit:	$14.15 trillion (31 December 2007)
Market value of publicly traded shares:	$19.95 trillion (31 December 2007)
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
Electricity - production:	4.167 trillion kWh (2007 est.)
Electricity - consumption:	3.892 trillion kWh (2007 est.)
Electricity - exports:	20.14 billion kWh (2007 est.)
Electricity - imports:	51.4 billion kWh (2007 est.)
Oil - production:	8.457 million bbl/day (2007 est.)
Oil - consumption:	20.68 million bbl/day (2007 est.)
Oil - exports:	1.165 million bbl/day (2005)
Oil - imports:	13.71 million bbl/day (2005)
Oil - proved reserves:	20.97 billion bbl (1 January 2008 est.)
Natural gas - production:	545.9 billion cu m (2007 est.)
Natural gas - consumption:	652.9 billion cu m (2007 est.)
Natural gas - exports:	23.28 billion cu m (2007 est.)
Natural gas - imports:	130.3 billion cu m (2007 est.)
Natural gas - proved reserves:	5.977 trillion cu m (1 January 2008 est.)
Current account balance:	-$568.8 billion (2008 est.)
Exports:	$1.377 trillion f.o.b. (2008 est.)
Exports - commodities:	agricultural products (soybeans, fruit, corn) 9.2%, industrial supplies (organic chemicals) 26.8%, capital goods (transistors, aircraft, motor vehicle parts, computers, telecommunications equipment) 49.0%, consumer goods (automobiles, medicines) 15.0% (2003)
Exports - partners:	Canada 21.4%, Mexico 11.7%, China 5.6%, Japan 5.4%, UK 4.3%, Germany 4.3% (2007)
Imports:	$2.19 trillion f.o.b. (2008 est.)
Imports - commodities:	agricultural products 4.9%, industrial supplies 32.9% (crude oil 8.2%), capital goods 30.4% (computers, telecommunications equipment, motor vehicle parts, office machines, electric power machinery), consumer goods 31.8% (automobiles, clothing, medicines, furniture, toys) (2003)
Imports - partners:	China 16.9%, Canada 15.7%, Mexico 10.6%, Japan 7.4%, Germany 4.8% (2007)
Reserves of foreign exchange and gold:	$70.57 billion (31 December 2007 est.)
Debt - external:	$12.25 trillion (30 June 2007)
Stock of direct foreign investment - at home:	$2.22 trillion (2008 est.)
Stock of direct foreign investment - abroad:	$2.751 trillion (2008 est.)
Exchange rates:	British pounds per US dollar: 0.5302 (2008), 0.4993 (2007), 0.5418 (2006), 0.5493 (2005), 0.5462 (2004) Canadian dollars per US dollar: 1.0364 (2008), 1.0724 (2007), 1.1334 (2006), 1.2118 (2005), 1.3010 (2004) Chinese yuan per US dollar: 6.9385 (2008), 7.61 (2007), 7.97 (2006), 8.1943 (2005), 8.2768 (2004) euros per US dollar: 0.6689 (2008), 0.7345 (2007), 0.7964 (2006), 0.8041 (2005), 0.8054 (2004) Japanese yen per US dollar: 103.58 (2008), 117.99 (2007), 116.18 (2006) 110.22 (2005), 108.19 (2004)