US Economic Data

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As per latest US economic data its GDP with respect to purchasing power parity was $14.58 trillion in fiscal 2008. During that same time US GDP with regard to official exchange rate was $14.33 trillion.

Latest economic data of US has confirmed that in fiscal 2008 real growth rate of US GDP was 1.4 percent. According to US economic data per capita GDP with respect to purchasing power parity was $48,000 in 2008 fiscal. In 2008, as per economic data in US, 1.2 percent of GDP was contributed by agricultural sector and industrial sector came up with 19.6 percent. America economic data confirmed that services sector was a major contributor with 79.2 percent.

According to economic data at US 155.2 million people were employed over there. 35.5 percent people were engaged in managerial, technical and other professional jobs and 24.8 percent found work in sales and office jobs. 22.6 percent workers in US were working in manufacturing, transportation, extraction and crafts sector and 16.5 percent were engaged in various sectors. 0.6 percent workers in US were working in farming, fishing and forestry in 2008 fiscal.

As of economic data for US on December 2008 7.2 percent people had no jobs in USA. In fiscal 2008 aggregate investments made amounted for 7.2 percent of GDP of USA. According to federal budget of 2008 fiscal US had earned revenues of $2.524 trillion and had spent $2.979 trillion.

USA economic data for fiscal 2008 revealed that rate of inflation with regard to consumer prices was 4.2 percent. In that same year major agricultural products of USA were wheat, beef, corn, pork, grains, poultry, fruits, dairy products, vegetables, fish, cotton and forest products. Leading industrial products of US at 2008 fiscal were petroleum, electronics, steel, food processing, motor vehicles, consumer goods, aerospace, lumber, telecommunications, mining and chemicals.

According to US economic data in fiscal 2008 aggregate worth of goods and services exported by USA was $1.377 trillion. Capital goods accounted for 49 percent of entire US exports in 2009 and they were followed by industrial supplies who accounted for 26.8 percent. In that same period goods and services worth $2.19 trillion were imported in USA.

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