Economy of Japan - Other Economic Indicators

Other Economic Indicators

Net international investment position: 266,223 \ billion (1st)

Industrial Production Growth Rate: 7.5% (2010 est.)

Investment (gross fixed): 20.3% of GDP (2010 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 – 88.67 (2010), 93.57 (2009), 103.58 (2008), 117.99 (2007), 116.18 (2006), 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: 925.5 billion kWh (2008)
• Electricity – production: 957.9 billion kWh (2008 est.)
• Electricity – exports: 0 kWh (2008)
• Electricity – imports: 0 kWh (2008)

Electricity – Production by source:

• Fossil Fuel: 69.7%
• Hydro: 7.3%
• Nuclear: 22.5%
• Other: 0.5% (2008)

Electricity – Standards:

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

Oil:

• production: 132,700 bbl/d (21,100 m3/d) (2009) (46th)
• consumption: 4,363,000 bbl/d (693,700 m3/d) (2009) (3rd)
• exports: 380,900 barrels per day (60,560 m3/d) (2008) (64th)
• imports: 5,033,000 barrels per day (800,200 m3/d) (2008) (2nd)
• net imports: 4,620,000 barrels per day (735,000 m3/d) (2008 est.)
• proved reserves: 44,120,000 bbl (7,015,000 m3) (1 January 2010 est.)