The 2008 CIA World Factbook. United States. Central Intelligence Agency
42.7% of GDP (2007 est.)
Budget:
revenues: $674.3 billion expenditures: $651.6 billion (2007 est.)
Fiscal year:
calendar year
Public debt:
18.4% of GDP (2007 est.)
Inflation rate (consumer prices):
4.8% (2007 est.)
Central bank discount rate:
3.33% (31 December 2007)
Commercial bank prime lending rate:
7.47% (31 December 2007)
Stock of money:
$2.09 trillion (31 December 2007)
Stock of quasi money:
$3.437 trillion (31 December 2007)
Stock of domestic credit:
$4.653 trillion (31 December 2007)
Agriculture - products:
rice, wheat, potatoes, corn, peanuts, tea, millet, barley, apples, cotton, oilseed; pork; fish
Industries:
mining and ore processing, iron, steel, aluminum, and other metals, coal; machine building; armaments; textiles and apparel; petroleum; cement; chemicals; fertilizers; consumer products, including footwear, toys, and electronics; food processing; transportation equipment, including automobiles, rail cars and locomotives, ships, and aircraft; telecommunications equipment, commercial space launch vehicles, satellites
Industrial production growth rate:
13.4% (2007 est.)
Electricity - production:
3.256 trillion kWh (2007)
Electricity - consumption:
2.859 trillion kWh (2006)
Electricity - exports:
14.04 billion kWh (2007 est.)
Electricity - imports:
4.771 billion kWh (2007 est.)
Electricity - production by source:
fossil fuel: 80.2% hydro: 18.5% nuclear: 1.2% other: 0.1% (2001)
Oil - production:
3.725 million bbl/day (2008 est.)
Oil - consumption:
7.578 million bbl/day (2007 est.)
Oil - exports:
79,060 bbl/day (2007)
Oil - imports:
3.19 million bbl/day (2007)
Oil - proved reserves:
16 billion bbl (1 January 2008 est.)
Natural gas - production:
69.27 billion cu m (2007 est.)
Natural gas - consumption:
70.51 billion cu m (2007 est.)
Natural gas - exports:
2.69 billion cu m (2007 est.)
Natural gas - imports:
3.92 billion cu m (2007 est.)
Natural gas - proved reserves:
2.265 trillion cu m (1 January 2008 est.)
Current account balance:
$371.8 billion (2007 est.)
Exports:
$1.22 trillion f.o.b. (2007 est.)
Exports - commodities:
machinery, electrical products, data processing equipment, apparel, textile, steel, mobile phones
Exports - partners:
US 19.1%, Hong Kong 15.1%, Japan 8.4%, South Korea 4.6%, Germany 4% (2007)
Imports:
$904.6 billion f.o.b. (2007 est.)
Imports - commodities:
machinery and equipment, oil and mineral fuels, plastics, LED screens, data processing equipment, optical and medical equipment, organic chemicals, steel, copper
Imports - partners:
Japan 14%, South Korea 10.9%, Taiwan 10.5%, US 7.3%, Germany 4.7% (2007)
Economic aid - recipient:
$1.641 billion (FY07)
Reserves of foreign exchange and gold:
$1.534 trillion (31 December 2007 est.)
Debt - external:
$363 billion (31 December 2007 est.)
Stock of direct foreign investment - at home:
$758.9 billion (2007 est.)
Stock of direct foreign investment - abroad:
$93.75 billion ( 2007 est.)
Market value of publicly traded shares:
$4.477 trillion (31 December 2007 est.)
Currency (code):
Renminbi (RMB); note - also referred to by the unit yuan (CNY)
Currency code:
CNY
Exchange rates:
Renminbi yuan (RMB) per US dollar - 7.61 (2007), 7.97 (2006), 8.1943 (2005), 8.2768 (2004), 8.277 (2003)
Communications
China
Telephones - main lines in use:
365.4 million (2007)
Telephones - mobile cellular:
547.286 million (2007)
Telephone system:
general assessment: domestic and international services are increasingly available for private use; unevenly distributed domestic system serves principal cities, industrial centers, and many towns; nonetheless, by the end of 2006, more than 95% of China's villages had been connected to the telephone network; China continues to develop its telecommunications infrastructure, and is partnering with foreign providers to expand its global reach; 3 of China's 6 major telecommunications operators are part of an international consortium which, in December 2006, signed an agreement with Verizon Business to build the first next-generation fiber optic submarine cable system directly linking the US mainland and China domestic: interprovincial fiber-optic trunk lines and cellular telephone systems have been installed; mobile-cellular subscribership is increasing rapidly; the number of Internet users reached 253 million in 2008; a domestic satellite system with 55 earth stations is in place international: country code - 86; a number of submarine cables provide connectivity to Asia, the Middle East, Europe, and the US; satellite earth stations - 7 (5 Intelsat - 4 Pacific Ocean and 1 Indian Ocean; 1 Intersputnik - Indian Ocean region; and 1 Inmarsat - Pacific and Indian Ocean regions) (2007)
Radio broadcast stations:
AM 369, FM 259, shortwave 45 (1998)
Radios:
417 million (1997)
Television broadcast stations:
3,240 (of which 209 are operated by China Central Television, 31 are provincial TV stations, and nearly 3,000 are local city stations) (1997)
Televisions:
400