Household income or consumption by percentage share: lowest 10%: 2.6% highest 10%: 29.4% (2000 est.)
Inflation rate (consumer prices): developed countries 1% to 4% typically; developing countries 5% to 20% typically; national inflation rates vary widely in individual cases, from declining prices in Japan to hyperinflation in one Third World countries (Zimbabwe); inflation rates have declined for most countries for the last several years, held in check by increasing international competition from several low wage countries (2005 est.)
Industries:
dominated by the onrush of technology, especially in computers,
robotics, telecommunications, and medicines and medical equipment;
most of these advances take place in OECD nations; only a small
portion of non-OECD countries have succeeded in rapidly adjusting to
these technological forces; the accelerated development of new
industrial (and agricultural) technology is complicating already
grim environmental problems
Industrial production growth rate:
3% (2003 est.)
Electricity - production:
16.54 trillion kWh (2003 est.)
Electricity - production by source: fossil fuel: NA hydro: NA nuclear: NA other: NA
Electricity - consumption:
15.45 trillion kWh (2003 est.)
Electricity - exports:
537 billion kWh (2003)
Electricity - imports:
545.2 billion kWh (2003)
Oil - production:
79.65 million bbl/day (2003 est.)