Market value of publicly traded shares:

$494.6 billion (31 December 2008) country comparison to the world: 16 $1.124 trillion (31 December 2007)

$835.2 billion (31 December 2006)

Agriculture - products:

rice, root crops, barley, vegetables, fruit; cattle, pigs, chickens, milk, eggs; fish

Industries:

electronics, telecommunications, automobile production, chemicals, shipbuilding, steel

Industrial production growth rate:

2.2% (2008 est.) country comparison to the world: 101

Electricity - production: