GDP - real growth rate: 3.6% (1996)
GDP - per capita: purchasing power parity - $22,700 (1996 est.)
GDP - composition by sector: agriculture: 2% industry : 41.5% services: 56.5% (1995)
Inflation rate - consumer price index: 0.3% (1996)
Labor force: total: 67.23 million (March 1997) by occupation: trade and services 50%, manufacturing, mining, and construction 33%, utilities and communication 7%, agriculture, forestry, and fishing 6%, government 3% (1994)
Unemployment rate: 3.4% (1996)
Budget: revenues: $528 billion expenditures: $673 billion, including capital expenditures (public works only) of about $75 billion (FY97/98 est.)
Industries: among world's largest and technologically advanced producers of steel and nonferrous 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: 2.4% (1996 est.)
Electricity - capacity: 199.88 million kW (1994)