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| Economy of Japan |
| Currency |
1 Japanese Yen (¥JPY) |
| Fiscal year |
1 April – 31 March |
| Trade organisations |
APEC, WTO and OECD |
| Statistics [1] |
| GDP ranking |
3rd by volume (at PPP) (2005); 12th by per capita (at PPP) (2005) |
| GDP |
$4.9 trillion (2005) |
| GDP growth |
2.4% (2005 est.) |
| GDP per capita (real GDP) |
$30,700 (2005 est.) |
| GDP by sector |
agriculture (1.3%), industry (25.3%), services (73.5%) (2005 est.) |
| Inflation |
-0.5% (2004 est.) |
| Pop below poverty line |
5% |
| Labour force |
66.4 million (2005 est.) |
| Labour force by occupation |
agriculture (4.6%), industry (27.8%), services (67.7%) (2004) |
| Unemployment |
4.1% (2006 est.) |
| Main industries |
motor vehicles, industrial and transportation equipment, electronics, chemicals, steel, machine tools, processed foods, nonferrous metals |
| Trading Partners [2] |
| Exports |
$550.5 billion f.o.b. (2005 est.) |
| Main partners |
U.S. 22.7%, the People's Republic of China 13.1%, South Korea 7.8%, Taiwan 7.4%, Hong Kong 6.3% (2004) |
| Imports |
$401.8 billion (2004) |
| Main Partners |
the People's Republic of China 20.7%, U.S. 14%, South Korea 4.9%, Australia 4.3% (2004) |
| Public finances [3] |
| Public debt |
164.3% of GDP (2004) 98% of these are domestic debt. |
| External debt |
$1.545 trillion (2004) |
| Revenues |
$1,401 billion (2004) |
| Expenses |
$1,748 billion (inc. $71 billion in capital expenditures) (2004) |
| Economic aid |
ODA, $7 billion (FY03/04) |
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