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USA Figures &
Fact?
GDP (purchasing power
parity):
$12.41 trillion (2005
est.)
GDP (official exchange
rate):
$12.47 trillion (2005
est.)
GDP - real growth
rate:
3.5% (2005 est.)
GDP - per capita
(PPP):
$42,000 (2005 est.)
GDP - composition by
sector:
agriculture: 1%
industry:
20.7%
services: 78.3% (2005 est.)
Labor
force:
149.3 million (includes unemployed)
(2005 est.)
Labor force - by
occupation:
farming, forestry, and fishing
0.7%, manufacturing, extraction, transportation, and
crafts 22.9%, managerial, professional, and technical
34.7%, sales and office 25.4%, other services 16.3%note: figures exclude the
unemployed (2005)
Unemployment
rate:
5.1% (2005 est.)
Population below poverty
line:
12% (2004 est.)
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):
3.2% (2005 est.)
Investment (gross
fixed):
16.8% of GDP (2005
est.)
Budget:
revenues:
$2.119 trillion
expenditures: $2.466 trillion;
including capital expenditures of $NA (2005
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:
3.2% (2005
est.)
Electricity -
production:
3.892 trillion kWh
(2003)
Electricity - production by
source:
fossil fuel: 71.4%
hydro:
5.6%
nuclear: 20.7%
other: 2.3%
(2001)
Electricity -
consumption:
3.656 trillion kWh
(2003)
Electricity -
exports:
23.97 billion kWh
(2003)
Electricity -
imports:
30.39 billion kWh
(2003)
Oil -
production:
7.61 million bbl/day (2005
est.)
Oil -
consumption:
20.03 million bbl/day (2003
est.)
Oil -
exports:
1.048 million bbl/day
(2004)
Oil -
imports:
13.15 million bbl/day
(2004)
Oil - proved
reserves:
22.45 billion bbl (1 January
2002)
Natural gas -
production:
539 billion cu m (2003
est.)
Natural gas -
consumption:
633.6 billion cu m (2003
est.)
Natural gas -
exports:
24.19 billion cu m
(2004)
Natural gas -
imports:
114.1 billion cu m (2004
est.)
Natural gas - proved
reserves:
5.353 trillion cu m (1 January
2002)
Current account
balance:
$-829.1 billion (2005
est.)
Exports:
$927.5
billion f.o.b. (2005 est.)
Exports -
commodities:
agricultural products
(soybeans, fruit, corn) 9.2%, industrial supplies
(organic chemicals) 26.8%, capital goods (transistors,
aircraft, motor vehicle parts, computers,
telecommunications equipment) 49.0%, consumer goods
(automobiles, medicines) 15.0% (2003)
Exports -
partners:
Canada 23%, Mexico 13.6%, Japan
6.7%, UK 4.4%, China 4.3% (2004)
Imports:
$1.727
trillion f.o.b. (2005 est.)
Imports -
commodities:
agricultural products 4.9%,
industrial supplies 32.9% (crude oil 8.2%), capital
goods 30.4% (computers, telecommunications equipment,
motor vehicle parts, office machines, electric power
machinery), consumer goods 31.8% (automobiles, clothing,
medicines, furniture, toys) (2003)
Imports -
partners:
Canada 17%, China 13.8%, Mexico
10.3%, Japan 8.7%, Germany 5.2% (2004)
Reserves of foreign
exchange and gold:
$86.94 billion (2004
est.)
Debt -
external:
$8.837 trillion (30 June 2005
est.)
Economic aid -
donor:
ODA, $6.9 billion
(1997)
Currency
(code):
US dollar (USD)
Exchange
rates:
British pounds per US dollar - 0.5500
(2005), 0.5462 (2004), 0.6125 (2003), 0.6672 (2002),
0.6947 (2001); Canadian dollars per US dollar - 1.2118
(2005), 1.3010 (2004), 1.4011 (2003), 1.5693 (2002),
1.5488 (2001); Japanese yen per US dollar - 110.22
(2005), 108.19 (2004), 115.93 (2003), 125.39 (2002),
121.53 (2001); euros per US dollar - 0.8041 (2005),
0.8054 (2004), 0.8866 (2003), 1.0626 (2002), 1.1175
(2001); Chinese yuan per US dollar - 8.1943 (2005),
8.2768 (2004), 8.2770 (2003), 8.2770 (2002), 8.2271
(2001)
Fiscal
year:
1 October - 30
September
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