Household income or consumption by percentage share: lowest 10%: 4.8% highest 10%: 21.7% (1993)
Distribution of family income - Gini index:
37.9 (2000)
Inflation rate (consumer prices):
-0.3% (2005 est.)
Investment (gross fixed):
23.2% of GDP (2005 est.)
Budget:
revenues: $1.429 trillion
expenditures: $1.775 trillion; including capital expenditures
(public works only) of about $71 billion (2005 est.)
Public debt:
158% of GDP (2005 est.)
Agriculture - products:
rice, sugar beets, vegetables, fruit; pork, poultry, dairy
products, eggs; fish
Industries:
among world's largest and technologically advanced producers of
motor vehicles, electronic equipment, machine tools, steel and
nonferrous metals, ships, chemicals, textiles, processed foods
Industrial production growth rate:
1.5% (2005 est.)
Electricity - production:
1.017 trillion kWh (2003)