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% (2006 est.)

Investment (gross fixed):
16.6% of GDP (2006 est.)

Budget:
revenues: $2.409 trillion
expenditures: $2.66 trillion; including capital expenditures of $NA
(2006 est.)

Public debt:
64.7% of GDP (2005 est.)

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

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:
4.2% (2006 est.)

Electricity - production:
3.979 trillion kWh (2004)