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Subject: Economic statistics on China (GDP, unemployment rate, etc)
Category: Reference, Education and News
Asked by: beth1983-ga
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Posted: 11 Nov 2003 07:12 PST
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Question ID: 274704
Please give brief economic statistics on China (GDP, unemployment rate, etc)
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Subject: Re: Economic statistics on China (GDP, unemployment rate, etc)
Answered By: scriptor-ga on 11 Nov 2003 07:31 PST
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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
beth1983-ga rated this answer:5 out of 5 stars and gave an additional tip of: $2.00
Thanks for your help!!

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