Population below poverty line: 13% (1997 est.)
Household income or consumption by percentage share: lowest 10%: 1.5% highest 10%: 28.5% (1994)
Inflation rate (consumer prices): 1.6% (1998)
Labor force: 137.7 million (includes unemployed) (1998)
Labor force—by occupation: managerial and professional 29.6%, technical, sales and administrative support 29.3%, services 13.6%, manufacturing, mining, transportation, and crafts 24.8%, farming, forestry, and fishing 2.7% (1998) note: figures exclude the unemployed
Unemployment rate: 4.5% (1998)
Budget:
revenues: $1.722 trillion
expenditures: $1.653 trillion, including capital expenditures of $NA
(1998)
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
Industrial production growth rate: 3.6% (1998)
Electricity—production: 3.629 trillion kWh (1996)