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GDP:
purchasing power parity - $6.449 trillion (2004 est.)
GDP - real growth rate:
9.1% (official data) (2004 est.)
GDP - per capita:
purchasing power parity - $5,000 (2004 est.)
GDP - composition by sector:
agriculture: 14.8%
industry and construction: 52.9%
services: 32.3% (2004 est.)
Investment (gross fixed):
43.4% of GDP (2004 est.)
Population below poverty line:
10% (2001 est.)
Household income or consumption by percentage share:
lowest 10%: 2.4%
highest 10%: 30.4% (1998)
Distribution of family income - Gini index:
40 (2001)
Inflation rate (consumer prices):
1.2% (2004 est.)
Labor force:
778.1 million (2004 est.)
Labor force - by occupation:
agriculture 50%, industry 22%, services 28% (2001 est.)
Unemployment rate:
10.1% urban unemployment roughly 10%; substantial unemployment and
underemployment in rural areas (2004 est.)
Budget:
revenues: $265.8 billion
expenditures: $300.2 billion, including capital expenditures of $NA (2004
est.)
Public debt:
30.1% of GDP (2004 est.)
Agriculture - products:
rice, wheat, potatoes, sorghum, peanuts, tea, millet, barley, cotton,
oilseed, pork, fish
Industries:
iron and steel, coal, machine building, armaments, textiles and apparel,
petroleum, cement, chemical fertilizers, footwear, toys, food processing,
automobiles, consumer electronics, telecommunications
Industrial production growth rate:
30.4% (2004 est.)
Electricity - production:
1.42 trillion kWh (2001)
Electricity - consumption:
1.312 trillion kWh (2001)
Electricity - exports:
10.3 billion kWh (2001)
Electricity - imports:
1.8 billion kWh (2001)
Oil - production:
3.3 million bbl/day (2004 est.)
Oil - consumption:
4.57 million bbl/day (2001 est.)
Oil - exports:
151,200 bbl/day (2001)
Oil - imports:
1.207 million bbl/day (2001)
Oil - proved reserves:
26.75 billion bbl (2004)
Natural gas - production:
30.3 billion cu m (2001 est.)
Natural gas - consumption:
27.4 billion cu m (2001 est.)
Natural gas - exports:
0 cu m (2001 est.)
Natural gas - imports:
0 cu m (2001 est.)
Natural gas - proved reserves:
1.29 trillion cu m (2004)
Current account balance:
$31.17 billion (2004 est.)
Exports:
$436.1 billion f.o.b. (2004 est.)
Exports - commodities:
machinery and equipment, textiles and clothing, footwear, toys and sporting
goods, mineral fuels
Exports - partners:
US 21.1%, Hong Kong 17.4%, Japan 13.6%, South Korea 4.6%, Germany 4% (2003)
Imports:
$397.4 billion f.o.b. (2003 est.)
Imports - commodities:
machinery and equipment, mineral fuels, plastics, iron and steel, chemicals
Imports - partners:
Japan 18%, Taiwan 11.9%, South Korea 10.4%, US 8.2%, Germany 5.9% (2003)
Reserves of foreign exchange & gold:
$412.7 billion (2004 est.)
Debt - external:
$197.8 billion (2004 est.)
Economic aid - recipient:
NA
Currency:
yuan (CNY)
note:: also referred to as the Renminbi (RMB)
Currency code:
CNY
Exchange rates:
yuan per US dollar - 8.277 (2003), 8.277 (2002), 8.2771 (2001), 8.2785
(2000), 8.2783 (1999)
Fiscal year:
calendar year