Its GDP growth rate is the lowest in the world.

GDP growth

(a) Economic growth (GDP)

Growth in per capita GDP

GDP growth at constant prices ( )

(ii) GDP per capita growth

Over the past decade, China has accounted for an average of 1.6 percentage points of world GDP growth per year more than double the combined 0.7 percentage point contribution of the so called advanced economies. Even if its GDP growth slows to 6.8 this year, China would account for slightly more growth than is likely from the advanced world.

Even the reduced global forecast of 3.4 GDP growth for this year is likely to prove excessively optimistic. Before the crisis, world trade grew at 6 8 annually well faster than GDP.

Owing to strong GDP growth, the debt to GDP ratio decreased from 100.2 per cent to 95.1 per cent.

In economic terms, the world is entering an era of diminished expectations. If, as predicted, average annual GDP growth amounts to 3 in the foreseeable future, it will take 25 years for the world economy to double in size ten years longer than it took before the global economic crisis, when average GDP growth stood at 5 .

1 In 2004, Guatemala reverted to real per capita GDP growth.

If the oil price stays at 40 a barrel, expect it to have next to no effect on short term world GDP growth. But if the oil price remains at or near 60 a barrel, expect everyone's forecasts of GDP growth to be reduced by 1 per year.

Decomposition estimates of GDP expenditure growth in 2004 indicate that Egypt, Jordan and Yemen experienced consumption led growth.

The contribution of investment expenditure growth to GDP growth was moderate in the latter, but impressive in Lebanon.

But the 8 real GDP growth recorded in 2004 might encourage some to expect a surge in economic performance, as has occurred elsewhere in the world.

Remotely possible Would require 5 annual growth and redistribution of 0.03 of GDP or growth in excess of 6

In Latin America, per capita GDP growth had actually been negative in 1995.

High oil prices are set to dampen economic performance in the rest of the world as well, although growth prospects look better than in the US. China s growth continues to astound the world indeed, new GDP data suggest that its economy is 20 larger than previously thought.

It is one of the sectors which have recorded the greatest annual growth in recent years, easily outstripping total GDP growth.

Current growth of the gross domestic product (GDP) is 2.4 per cent per annum.

Growth was mainly concentrated in the service sector, whose share of GDP progressively increased.

25. According to official sources, Bermuda s economic growth measured by GDP has been robust.

That's not U.S. GDP per capita, which will be over a million, but world GDP per capita 200,000.

Despite nerve wracking ups and downs, the last 50 years delivered an unprecedented global growth dividend. Measured according to GDP (admittedly a flawed metric), the world economy expanded sixfold.

A Post Growth World?

For the first time since the beginning of the 1980s, GDP growth rates have exceeded population growth, albeit by a small margin.

(d) Economic profile, for example, gross domestic product (GDP), GDP per capita (expressed in domestic currency and purchasing power parities (PPP)), GDP growth rates, GDP by sector, and imports and exports, agricultural subsidies, with some historical perspective (e.g. 1970 1990), and greenhouse gas emissions per GDP

Some will object that there is little point in creating GDP linked bonds in advanced countries, because there is little uncertainty about GDP growth there. However, even in the relative calm of the post war era, long term real GDP growth in advanced countries has been rather variable.

Real GDP growth continued at a modest pace in 2004 in the Pacific island economies.

GDP level (national currency) and annual growth rate (consistent with economic forecasts of the Party)

GDP growth in South East Asia in 2004 exceeded expectations and improved on 2003 growth by the wide margin of 1.5 percentage points.

The key to restoring China s GDP growth is, therefore, returning fixed asset investment growth to at least 25 . With a new round of stimulus, China s excess production capacity and underused outlays (for example, built up real estate assets) could be mobilized immediately, restoring 9 annual GDP growth.

Moderately possible Will be achieved, given 4 sustained annual growth (2006 2015) with additional social policies costing 0.63 of GDP and redistribution of 0.18 of GDP

GDP per capita, growth of GDP per capita and inward foreign direct investment, landlocked and transit developing countries and developing countries as a whole, 2000 2003

While the earthquake and tsunami disaster lowered expected growth in 2005 somewhat in Thailand, Indonesia is still expecting GDP growth to increase next year.

In recent years, GDP growth rates within the region have averaged less than 2 per cent.

23. The information available for 1997 suggests that GDP growth will be under 1 per cent.

The gross domestic product (GDP) growth rate declined in 1997 in excess of 10 per cent.

Second, persistent weakness in consumption and GDP growth puts the US economy on a much weaker growth trajectory than that which is built into the government s long term budget estimates. The Congressional Budget Office is assuming 3.4 average growth in real GDP over the 2013 to 2016 period.

Europe s extensive regional and global trade networks mean that its internal problems are impeding world trade and, in turn, global economic growth. In 2012, world trade expanded by only 2.5 , while global GDP grew at a disappointing 3.2 rate.

Devaluation and debt restructuring worked. In subsequent years, until the global financial crisis erupted in 2008, Argentina s annual GDP growth was 8 or higher, one of the fastest rates in the world.

47. The growth of the world economy over the last 35 years has been enormous, measured only by GDP, which as we know falls far short of measuring wealth in its entirety.

Assuming an annual average rate of five per cent growth in GDP, this goal represents a 22 per cent annual growth rate for IDE investment.

Real GDP and estimates of growth rates in the ESCWA region at constant 2000 prices, 2001 2005

For the energy sector, the common variables used to develop scenarios were population growth, demand, and GDP.