GDP real growth rate: 0.3% (1995 est.)
GDP per capita: $21,300 (1995 est.)
GDP composition by sector: agriculture: 2.1% industry: 40.2% services: 57.7% (1994)
Inflation rate (consumer prices): -0.1% (1995)
Labor force: 65.87 million (December 1994) by occupation: trade and services 54%, manufacturing, mining, and construction 33%, agriculture, forestry, and fishing 7%, government 3%, other 3% (1988)
Unemployment rate: 3.1% (1995)
Budget:
revenues: $595 billion
expenditures: $829 billion, including capital expenditures (public
works only) of about $122 billion (1995 est.)
Industries: among world's largest and technologically advanced producers of steel and non-ferrous metallurgy, heavy electrical equipment, construction and mining equipment, motor vehicles and parts, electronic and telecommunication equipment, machine tools, automated production systems, locomotives and railroad rolling stock, ships, chemicals; textiles, processed foods
Industrial production growth rate: 3.3% (1995)
Electricity:
capacity: 205,140,000 kW (1993)
production: 915 billion kWh (1995)
consumption per capita: 7,293 kWh (1995)