Dear beth1983,
Here are the most current statistics I could find. Much of the
information is based upon official Chinese data. Please keep in mind
that no one knows how much truth is in them; the Chinese government
does its best to manipulate the country's economic data.
Population:
1,286,975,468 (July 2003 est.)
GDP:
purchasing power parity - $5.7 trillion (2002 est.)
GDP - real growth rate:
8% (official data) (2002 est.)
GDP - per capita:
purchasing power parity - $4,400 (2002 est.)
GDP - composition by sector:
agriculture: 15.2%
industry and construction: 51.2%
services: 33.6% (2001)
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):
-0.8% (2002 est.)
Labor force:
744 million (2001 est.)
Labor force - by occupation:
agriculture 50%, industry 22%, services 28% (2001 est.)
Unemployment rate:
urban unemployment roughly 10%; substantial unemployment and
underemployment in rural areas (2002 est.)
Budget:
revenues: $224.8 billion
expenditures: $267.1 billion, including capital expenditures of $NA (2002 est.)
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:
12.6% (2002 est.)
Electricity - production:
1.42 trillion kWh (2001)
Electricity - production by source:
fossil fuel: 80.2%
hydro: 18.5%
other: 0.1% (2001)
nuclear: 1.2%
Electricity - consumption:
1.312 trillion kWh (2001)
Electricity - exports:
10.3 billion kWh (2001)
Electricity - imports:
1.55 billion kWh (2001)
Oil - production:
3.3 million bbl/day (2001 est.)
Oil - consumption:
4.975 million bbl/day (2001 est.)
Oil - exports:
NA
Oil - imports:
NA
Oil - proved reserves:
26.75 billion bbl (January 2002 est.)
Natural gas - proved reserves:
1.29 trillion cu m (January 2002 est.)
Agriculture - products:
rice, wheat, potatoes, sorghum, peanuts, tea, millet, barley, cotton,
oilseed; pork; fish
Exports:
$325.6 billion f.o.b. (2002 est.)
Exports - commodities:
machinery and equipment; textiles and clothing, footwear, toys and
sporting goods; mineral fuels
Exports - partners:
US 22.5%, Hong Kong 18.0%, Japan 14.9%, South Korea 4.8%, Germany
3.5%, Netherlands 2.8%, UK 2.5%, Singapore 2.1%, Taiwan 2.0% (2002)
Imports:
$295.3 billion f.o.b. (2002 est.)
Imports - commodities:
machinery and equipment, mineral fuels, plastics, iron and steel, chemicals
Imports - partners:
Japan 18.1%, Taiwan 12.9%, South Korea 9.7%, US 9.2%, Germany 5.6%,
Hong Kong 3.6%, Malaysia 3.1%, Russia 2.8% (2002)
Debt - external:
$149.4 billion (2002 est.)
Economic aid - recipient:
$NA
Currency:
yuan (CNY)
Currency code:
CNY
Exchange rates:
yuan per US dollar - 8.277 (2002), 8.2771 (2001), 8.2785 (2000),
8.2783 (1999), 8.279 (1998)
Sources:
CIA World Fact Book: China, Economy
http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/ch.html#Econ
GlobalEdge: Country Insights - China
http://globaledge.msu.edu/ibrd/CountryStats.asp?CountryID=17&RegionID=3
Search terms used:
china "economic statistics"
://www.google.de/search?q=china+%22economic+statistics%22&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=de&meta=
china statistics gdp unemployment 2002
://www.google.de/search?hl=de&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&newwindow=1&q=china+statistics+gdp+unemployment+2002&meta=
Hope this will be useful!
Best regards,
Scriptor |