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)