Household income or consumption by percentage share: lowest 10%: 1.8% highest 10%: 30.5% (1997)

Distribution of family income - Gini index:
45 (2004)

Inflation rate (consumer prices):
2.5% (2004 est.)

Investment (gross fixed):
15.7% of GDP (2004 est.)

Budget:
revenues: $1.862 trillion
expenditures: $2.338 trillion, including capital expenditures of NA
(2004 est.)

Public debt:
65% of GDP (2004 est.)

Agriculture - products:
wheat, corn, other grains, fruits, vegetables, cotton; beef, pork,
poultry, dairy products; forest products; fish

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:
4.4% (2004 est.)

Electricity - production:
3.839 trillion kWh (2002)