The 2010 CIA World Factbook. United States. Central Intelligence Agency
- composition by sector:
agriculture: 4%
industry: 24.8%
services: 71.2% (2010 est.)
Labor force:
11.62 million (2010 est.) country comparison to the world: 44
Labor force - by occupation:
agriculture: 3.6%
industry: 21.1%
services: 75% (2009 est.)
Unemployment rate:
5.1% (2010 est.) country comparison to the world: 46 5.6% (2009 est.)
Population below poverty line:
NA%
Household income or consumption by percentage share:
lowest 10%: 2%
highest 10%: 25.4% (1994)
Distribution of family income - Gini index:
30.5 (2006) country comparison to the world: 110 35.2 (1994)
Investment (gross fixed):
27.4% of GDP (2010 est.) country comparison to the world: 30
Public debt:
22.4% of GDP (2010 est.) country comparison to the world: 107 22.1% of GDP (2009 est.)
Inflation rate (consumer prices):
2.9% (2010 est.) country comparison to the world: 88 1.8% (2009 est.)
Central bank discount rate:
4% (31 March 2010) country comparison to the world: 106 4.25% (3 December 2008)
note: this is the Reserve Bank of Australia's "cash rate target," or policy rate
Commercial bank prime lending rate:
6.02% (31 December 2009 est.) country comparison to the world: 105 8.91% (31 December 2008 est.)
Stock of narrow money:
$347.1 billion (31 December 2010 est) country comparison to the world: 13 $290.8 billion (31 December 2009 est)
Stock of broad money:
$1.134 trillion (31 December 2010 est.) country comparison to the world: 15 $976.6 billion (31 December 2009 est.)
Stock of domestic credit:
$1.731 trillion (31 December 2010 est.) country comparison to the world: 13 $1.407 trillion (31 December 2009 est.)
Market value of publicly traded shares:
$1.258 trillion (31 December 2009) country comparison to the world: 13 $675.6 billion (31 December 2008)
$1.298 trillion (31 December 2007)
Agriculture - products:
wheat, barley, sugarcane, fruits; cattle, sheep, poultry
Industries:
mining, industrial and transportation equipment, food processing, chemicals, steel
Industrial production growth rate:
3% (2010 est.) country comparison to the world: 104
Electricity - production:
239.9 billion kWh (2007 est.) country comparison to the world: 17
Electricity - consumption:
222 billion kWh (2007 est.) country comparison to the world: 16
Electricity - exports:
0 kWh (2008 est.)
Electricity - imports:
0 kWh (2008 est.)
Oil - production:
589,200 bbl/day (2009 est.) country comparison to the world: 30
Oil - consumption:
946,300 bbl/day (2009 est.) country comparison to the world: 19
Oil - exports:
311,900 bbl/day (2008 est.) country comparison to the world: 39
Oil - imports:
716,700 bbl/day (2008 est.) country comparison to the world: 19
Oil - proved reserves:
3.318 billion bbl (1 January 2010 est.) country comparison to the world: 29
Natural gas - production:
42.33 billion cu m (2009 est.) country comparison to the world: 19
Natural gas - consumption:
26.59 billion cu m (2009 est.) country comparison to the world: 29
Natural gas - exports:
22.3 billion cu m (2009 est.) country comparison to the world: 10
Natural gas - imports:
6.56 billion cu m (2009 est.) country comparison to the world: 29
Natural gas - proved reserves:
3.115 trillion cu m (1 January 2010 est.) country comparison to the world: 12
Current account balance:
-$35.23 billion (2010 est.) country comparison to the world: 182 -$41.33 billion (2009 est.)
Exports:
$210.7 billion (2010 est.) country comparison to the world: 21 $154.8 billion (2009 est.)
Exports - commodities:
coal, iron ore, gold, meat, wool, alumina, wheat, machinery and transport equipment
Exports - partners:
China 21.81%, Japan 19.19%, South Korea 7.88%, India 7.51%, US 4.95%, UK 4.37%, NZ 4.1% (2009)
Imports:
$200.4 billion (2010 est.) country comparison to the world: 21 $160.4 billion (2009 est.)
Imports - commodities:
machinery and transport equipment, computers and office machines, telecommunication equipment and parts; crude oil and petroleum products
Imports - partners:
China 17.94%, US 11.26%, Japan 8.36%, Thailand 5.81%, Singapore 5.54%, Germany 5.3% (2009)
Reserves of foreign exchange and gold:
$38.62 billion (31 December 2010 est.) country comparison to the world: 30 $41.74 billion (31 December 2009 est.)
Debt - external:
$1.169 trillion (31 December 2010 est.) country comparison to the world: 14 $1.094 trillion (31 December 2009 est.)
Stock of direct foreign investment - at home:
$329.1 billion (31 December 2010 est.) country comparison to the world: 14 $295.9 billion (31 December 2009 est.)
Stock of direct foreign investment - abroad:
$245.9 billion (31 December 2010 est.) country comparison to the world: 17 $221.1 billion (31 December 2009 est.)
Exchange rates:
Australian dollars (AUD) per US dollar - 1.1151 (2010), 1.2822 (2009), 1.2059 (2008), 1.2137 (2007), 1.3285 (2006)
Communications ::Australia
Telephones - main lines in use:
9.02 million (2009) country comparison to the world: 24
Telephones - mobile cellular:
24.22 million (2009) country comparison to the world: 37