industry: 27.2%
services: 33.2% (2008 est.)
Unemployment rate:
4.3% (September 2009 est.) country comparison to the world: 40 4.2% (December 2008 est.)
note: official data for urban areas only; including migrants may boost total unemployment to 9%; substantial unemployment and underemployment in rural areas
Population below poverty line:
2.8%
note: 21.5 million rural population live below the official "absolute poverty" line (approximately $90 per year); an additional 35.5 million rural population live above that level but below the official "low income" line (approximately $125 per year) (2007)
Household income or consumption by percentage share:
lowest 10%: 3.5%
highest 10%: 15%
note: data are for urban households only (2008)
Distribution of family income - Gini index:
41.5 (2007) country comparison to the world: 54 40 (2001)
Investment (gross fixed):
47.8% of GDP (2010 est.) country comparison to the world: 1
Public debt:
17.5% of GDP (2010 est.) country comparison to the world: 112 16.9% of GDP (2009 est.)
Inflation rate (consumer prices):
5% (2010 est.) country comparison to the world: 143 −0.7% (2009 est.)
Central bank discount rate:
2.79% (31 December 2009) country comparison to the world: 129 2.79% (31 December 2008)
Commercial bank prime lending rate:
5.81% (31 December 2010 est.) country comparison to the world: 147 5.31% (31 December 2009 est.)
Stock of narrow money:
$3.838 trillion (31 December 2010 est) country comparison to the world: 4 $3.242 trillion (31 December 2009 est)
Stock of broad money:
$10.08 trillion (31 December 2010 est.) country comparison to the world: 5 $8.933 trillion (31 December 2009 est.)
Stock of domestic credit:
$8.156 trillion (31 December 2010 est.) country comparison to the world: 4 $7.24 trillion (31 December 2009 est.)
Market value of publicly traded shares:
$5.008 trillion (31 December 2009 est.) country comparison to the world: 4 $2.794 trillion (31 December 2008)
$6.226 trillion (31 December 2007 est.)
Agriculture - products:
world leader in gross value of agricultural output; rice, wheat, potatoes, corn, peanuts, tea, millet, barley, apples, cotton, oilseed; pork; fish
Industries:
world leader in gross value of industrial output; mining and ore processing, iron, steel, aluminum, and other metals, coal; machine building; armaments; textiles and apparel; petroleum; cement; chemicals; fertilizers; consumer products, including footwear, toys, and electronics; food processing; transportation equipment, including automobiles, rail cars and locomotives, ships, and aircraft; telecommunications equipment, commercial space launch vehicles, satellites
Industrial production growth rate:
11% (2010 est.) country comparison to the world: 12
Electricity - production:
3.451 trillion kWh (2008 est.) country comparison to the world: 2
Electricity - consumption:
3.438 trillion kWh (2008 est.) country comparison to the world: 2
Electricity - exports:
16.64 billion kWh (2008)
Electricity - imports:
3.842 billion kWh (2008)
Oil - production:
3.991 million bbl/day (2009 est.) country comparison to the world: 5
Oil - consumption:
8.2 million bbl/day (2009 est.) country comparison to the world: 3
Oil - exports:
388,000 bbl/day (2008 est.) country comparison to the world: 32
Oil - imports:
4.393 million bbl/day (2008) country comparison to the world: 4
Oil - proved reserves:
20.35 billion bbl (1 January 2010 est.) country comparison to the world: 13
Natural gas - production:
82.94 billion cu m (2009) country comparison to the world: 8
Natural gas - consumption:
87.08 billion cu m (2009) country comparison to the world: 9
Natural gas - exports:
3.32 billion cu m (2009) country comparison to the world: 31
Natural gas - imports:
7.462 billion cu m (2009) country comparison to the world: 27
Natural gas - proved reserves:
3.03 trillion cu m (1 January 2010 est.) country comparison to the world: 13
Current account balance:
$272.5 billion (2010 est.) country comparison to the world: 1 $297.1 billion (2009 est.)
Exports:
$1.506 trillion (2010 est.) country comparison to the world: 2 $1.204 trillion (2009 est.)
Exports - commodities:
electrical and other machinery, including data processing equipment, apparel, textiles, iron and steel, optical and medical equipment
Exports - partners:
US 20.03%, Hong Kong 12.03%, Japan 8.32%, South Korea 4.55%, Germany 4.27% (2009)
Imports:
$1.307
