Other economic indicators

Industrial Production Growth Rate: 3.3% (2006 est.)

Current account balance 2006

Investment (gross fixed): 100% of GDP (2006 est.)

Household income or consumption by percentage share:

  • Lowest 10%: 4.8%
  • Highest 10%: 21.7% (1993)

Agriculture - Products: rice, sugar beets, vegetables, fruit, pork, poultry, dairy products, eggs, fish

Exports - Commodities: machinery and equipment, motor vehicles, semiconductors, chemicals

Imports - Commodities: machinery and equipment, fuels, foodstuffs, chemicals, textiles, raw materials (2001)

Exchange rates:
Japanese Yen per US$1 - 100.320 (2008) 109.690016 (2005), 115.933 (2003), 125.388 (2002), 121.529 (2001), 105.16 (January 2000), 113.91 (1999), 130.91 (1998), 120.99 (1997), 108.78 (1996), 94.06 (1995)

Electricity:

  • Electricity - consumption: 946.3 billion kWh (2005)
  • Electricity - production: 996 billion kWh (2005)
  • Electricity - exports: 0 kWh (2003)
  • Electricity - imports: 0 kWh (2003)

Electricity - Production by source:

  • Fossil Fuel: 56.68%
  • Hydro: 8.99%
  • Nuclear: 31.93%
  • Other: 2.4% (1998)

Electricity - Standards:

  • 100 volts at 50 Hz from the Oi River (in Shizuoka) Northward;
  • 100 volts at 60 Hz Southward

Oil:

  • production: 125,000 bbl/day (2006)
  • consumption: 5.578 million bbl/day (2005)
  • exports: 93,360 barrel/day (2001)
  • imports: 5.449 million barrel/day (2001)
  • net imports: 5.3 million barrel/day (2004 est.)
  • proved reserves: 59 million bbl (1 January 2006)

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