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- Hawaii United States: Economy
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- <article><hdr>The World Factbook 1993: United States
- Economy</hdr><body>
- <p>Overview: The US has the most powerful, diverse, and
- technologically advanced economy in the world, with a per capita
- GDP of $23,400, the largest among major industrial nations. The
- economy is market oriented with most decisions made by private
- individuals and business firms and with government purchases of
- goods and services made predominantly in the marketplace. In 1989
- the economy enjoyed its seventh successive year of substantial
- growth, the longest in peacetime history. The expansion featured
- moderation in wage and consumer price increases and a steady
- reduction in unemployment to 5.2% of the labor force. In 1990,
- however, growth slowed to 1% because of a combination of
- factors, such as the worldwide increase in interest rates,
- Iraq's invasion of Kuwait in August, the subsequent spurt in oil
- prices, and a general decline in business and consumer
- confidence. In 1991 output fell by 1%, unemployment grew, and
- signs of recovery proved premature. Growth picked up to 2.1% in
- 1992. Unemployment, however, remained at nine million, the
- increase in GDP being mainly attributable to gains in output per
- worker. Ongoing problems for the 1990s include inadequate
- investment in economic infrastructure, rapidly rising medical
- costs, and sizable budget and trade deficits.
- </p>
- <p>National product: GDP - purchasing power equivalent - $5.951
- trillion (1992)
- </p>
- <p>National product real growth rate: 2.1% (1992)
- </p>
- <p>National product per capita: $23,400 (1992)
- </p>
- <p>Inflation rate (consumer prices): 3% (1992)
- </p>
- <p>Unemployment rate: 7% (April 1993)
- </p>
- <p>Budget: revenues $1,092 billion; expenditures $1,382 billion,
- including capital expenditures of $NA (FY92)
- </p>
- <list>
- <l>Exports: $442.3 billion (f.o.b., 1992)</l>
- <l> commodities: capital goods, automobiles, industrial supplies
- and raw materials, consumer goods, agricultural products</l>
- <l> partners: Western Europe 27.3%, Canada 22.1%, Japan 12.1%
- (1989)</l>
- <l>Imports: $544.1 billion (c.i.f., 1992)</l>
- <l> commodities: crude oil and refined petroleum products,
- machinery, automobiles, consumer goods, industrial raw
- materials, food and beverages</l>
- <l> partners: Western Europe 21.5%, Japan 19.7%, Canada 18.8%
- (1989)</l>
- </list>
- <p>External debt: $NA
- </p>
- <p>Industrial production: growth rate 1.5% (1992 est.); accounts
- for NA% of GDP
- </p>
- <p>Electricity: 780,000,000 kW capacity; 3,230,000 million kWh
- produced, 12,690 kWh per capita (1992)
- </p>
- <p>Industries: leading industrial power in the world, highly
- diversified; petroleum, steel, motor vehicles, aerospace,
- telecommunications, chemicals, electronics, food processing,
- consumer goods, lumber, mining
- </p>
- <p>Agriculture: accounts for 2% of GDP and 2.8% of labor force;
- favorable climate and soils support a wide variety of crops and
- livestock production; world's second largest producer and number
- one exporter of grain; surplus food producer; fish catch of 4.4
- million metric tons (1990)
- </p>
- <p>Illicit drugs: illicit producer of cannabis for domestic
- consumption with 1987 production estimated at 3,500 metric tons
- or about 25% of the available marijuana; ongoing eradication
- program aimed at small plots and greenhouses has not reduced
- production
- </p>
- <p>Economic aid: donor - commitments, including ODA and OOF,
- (FY80-89), $115.7 billion
- </p>
- <p>Currency: 1 United States dollar (US$)=100 cents
- </p>
- <p>Exchange rates:</p>
- <p> British pounds: (#) per US$ - 0.6527 (January 1993), 0.5664
- (1992), 0.5652 (1991), 0.5603 (1990), 0.6099 (1989), 0.5614
- (1988)
- </p>
- <p> Canadian dollars: (Can$) per US$ - 1.2776 (January 1993),
- 1.2087 (1992), 1.1457 (1991), 1.1668 (1990), 1.1840 (1989),
- 1.2307 (1988)
- </p>
- <p> French francs: (F) per US$ - 5.4812 (January 1993), 5.2938
- (1992), 5.6421 (1991), 5.4453 (1990), 6.3801 (1989), 5.9569
- (1988)
- </p>
- <p> Italian lire: (Lit) per US$ - 1,482.5 (January 1993),
- 1,232.4 (1992), 1,240.6 (1991), 1,198.1 (1990), 1.372.1 (1989),
- 1,301.6 (1988)
- </p>
- <p> Japanese yen: (Y) per US$ - 125.01 (January 1993), 126.65
- (1992), 134.71 (1991), 144.79 (1990), 137.96 (1989), 128.15
- (1988)
- </p>
- <p> German deutsche marks: (DM) per US$ - 1.6158 (January 1993),
- 1.5617 (1992), 1.6595 (1991), 1.6157 (1990), 1.8800 (1989),
- 1.7562 (1988)
- </p>
- <p>Fiscal year: 1 October-30 September
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