Japan Economy - 1986

GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES 

GNP: $1,233 billion (1984, at 237.52 yen=US$l); $10,200 per capita (1984); 59% personal consumption, 28% investment, 10% government current expenditure, negligible stocks, and 2% foreign balance; real growth rate 5.7% (1984\ average annual growth rate 4.3% (1980-84)

Natural resources: negligible mineral resources, fish

\gr‘culture: land intensively cultivated; rice, sugar, vegetables, fruits; 72% self-sufficient in food (1980); food shortages—meat, wheat, feed grains, edible oils and fats

Fishing: catch 11.2 million metric tons (1983)

Major industries: metallurgical and engineering industries, electrical and electronic industries, textiles, chemicals

Shortages: fossil fuels, most industrial raw materials

Crude steel: 105.6 million metric tons produced (1984)

Electric power, (including Ryukyus) 175.000,000 kW capacity (1985); 650 billion kWh produced (1985), 5,385 kWh per capita

Exports: $170.1 billion (f.o.b., 1984); 97% manufactures (including 25% machinery, 18% motor vehicles, 9% iron and steel)

Imports: $136.5 billion (c.i.f., 1984); 47% fossil fuels, 22.4% manufactures, 12% foodstuffs, 8% machinery

Major trade partners: exports—29% US, 23% Southeast Asia, 16% Western Europe, 12% Middle East, 6% Communist countries, imports—27% Middle East, 22% Southeast Asia, 19% US, 8% Western Europe, 6% Communist countries

Aid: donor—ODA and OOF economic commitments (1970-83), $35.6 billion

budget: revenues, $216 billion; expenditures, $270 billion; deficit, $54 billion (proposed general account for fiscal year ending March 1987)

Monetary conversion rate: 198.5 yen=US$l (2 January 1986)

Fiscal year: 1 April-31 March

NOTE: The information regarding Japan on this page is re-published from the 1986 World Fact Book of the United States Central Intelligence Agency and other sources. No claims are made regarding the accuracy of Japan 1986 information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Japan 1986 should be addressed to the CIA or the source cited on each page.