"thunder" wrote in message
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I would suggest that does make them a manufacturing economy. That
breakdown is equivalent to Germany's, and only slightly less than Japan's.
We on the other hand are a service economy.

Germany:
industry 33.4%, agriculture 2.8%, services 63.8% (1999)

Japan:
agricultu 1.4% industry: 30.9% services: 67.7% (2001 est.)

USA:
agricultu 2% industry: 18% services: 80% (2002)

Numbers taken from CIA Factbook:

http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/
That is the same place I went for my numbers. They pull
together information from numerous sources so I can
get the info there instead of searching all over the internet.