Labor force - by occupation: managerial and professional 30.3%, technical, sales and administrative support 29.2%, services 13.4%, manufacturing, mining, transportation, and crafts 24.5%, farming, forestry, and fishing 2.6% (1999) note: figures exclude the unemployed
Unemployment rate: 4.2% (1999)
Budget: revenues: $1.828 trillion expenditures: $1.703 trillion, including capital expenditures of $NA (1999)
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: 2.4% (1999 est.)
Electricity - production: 3.62 trillion kWh (1998)
Electricity - production by source: fossil fuel: 70.34% hydro: 8.96% nuclear: 18.61% other: 2.09% (1998)
Electricity - consumption: 3.365 trillion kWh (1998)
Electricity - exports: 12.772 billion kWh (1998)
Electricity - imports: 39.513 billion kWh (1998)