Inflation rate (consumer prices): 1.8% (2001 est.)
Labor force: 29.7 million (2001)
Labor force - by occupation: agriculture 1%, industry 25%, services 74% (1999)
Unemployment rate: 5.1% (2001 est.)
Budget: revenues: $565 billion expenditures: $540 billion, including capital expenditures of $NA (FY01)
Industries: machine tools, electric power equipment, automation equipment, railroad equipment, shipbuilding, aircraft, motor vehicles and parts, electronics and communications equipment, metals, chemicals, coal, petroleum, paper and paper products, food processing, textiles, clothing, and other consumer goods
Industrial production growth rate: -1.6% (2001 est.)
Electricity - production: 355.761 billion kWh (2000)
Electricity - production by source: fossil fuel: 73.26% hydro: 1.46% other: 2.31% (2000) nuclear: 22.97%
Electricity - consumption: 345.032 billion kWh (2000)