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Tabular Data - The American Economy
| GDP : |
purchasing power parity - $10.99 trillion (2003 est.) |
| GDP - Real Growth Rate : |
3.1% (2003 est.) |
| GDP - Per Capita : |
purchasing power parity - $37,800 (2003 est.) |
| GDP - Composition By Sector : |
agriculture: 1.4%
industry: 26.2%
services: 72.5% (2003 est.) |
| Population Below Poverty Line : |
12% (2003 est.) |
| Household Income or Consumption by Percentage : |
lowest 10%: 1.8%
highest 10%: 30.5% (1997) |
| Inflation Rate (Consumer Prices) : |
2.3% (2003) |
| Labor Force : |
146.5 million (includes unemployed) (2003) |
| Labor Force - By Occupation : |
farming, forestry, and fishing 2.4%, manufacturing, extraction, transportation, and crafts 24.1%, managerial, professional, and technical 31%, sales and office 28.9%, other services 13.6%
note: figures exclude the unemployed (2001) |
| Budget : |
revenues: $1.782 trillion
expenditures: $2.156 trillion, including capital expenditures of NA (2003) |
| 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 : |
0.3% (2003 est.) |
| Electricity - Production : |
3.719 trillion kWh (2001) |
| Electricity - Production by Source : |
fossil fuel: 71.4%
hydro: 5.6%
nuclear: 20.7%
other: 2.3% (2001) |
| Electricity - Consumption : |
3.602 trillion kWh (2001) |
| Electricity - Exports : |
18.17 billion kWh (2001) |
| Electricity - Imports : |
38.48 billion kWh (2001) |
| Agriculture - Products : |
wheat, corn, other grains, fruits, vegetables, cotton; beef, pork, poultry, dairy products; forest products; fish |
| Exports : |
$714.5 billion f.o.b. (2003 est.) |
| Exports - Commodities : |
capital goods, automobiles, industrial supplies and raw materials, consumer goods, agricultural products |
| Exports - Partners : |
Canada 23.4%, Mexico 13.5%, Japan 7.2%, UK 4.7%, Germany 4% (2003 est.) |
| Imports : |
$1.26 trillion f.o.b. (2003 est.) |
| Imports - Commodities : |
crude oil and refined petroleum products, machinery, automobiles, consumer goods, industrial raw materials, food and beverages |
| Imports - Partners : |
Canada 17.4%, China 12.5%, Mexico 10.7%, Japan 9.3%, Germany 5.3% (2003 est.) |
| Debt - External : |
$1.4 trillion (2001 est.) |
| Economic Aid - Donor : |
ODA, $6.9 billion (1997) |
| Currency : |
US dollar (USD) |
| Currency Code : |
USD |
| Exchange Rates : |
British pounds per US dollar - 0.6139 (2003), 0.6661 (2002), 0.6944 (2001), 0.6596 (2000), 0.6180 (1999), Canadian dollars per US dollar - 1.4045 (2003), 1.5693 (2002), 1.5488 (2001), 1.4851 (2000), 1.4857 (1999), Japanese yen per US dollar - 116.08 (2003), 125.39 (2002), 121.53 (2001), 107.77 (2000), 113.91 (1999), euros per US dollar - 0.8866 (2003), 1.0626 (2002), 1.1175 (2001), 1.08540 (2000), 0.93863 (1999) |
| Fiscal Year : |
1 October - 30 September |
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