Economy

Location http://www.cs.mun.ca/~ulf/facts/econ.html. Written 220605 by Ulf Schünemann.

GDP
G10 - GDP 2001 in trillion $ at current market prices [Financial Times 12 Dec 2002, source: IMF]
NAFTA 11.4
USA 10.1
EU 6.2 (top 5) + x
Japan 4.2
Germany 1.85
UK 1.4
France 1.3
China 1.15
Italy 1.1
Canada 0.7
Mexico 0.6
Spain 0.55

Index of GDP per capita by buying power, OECD avg. = 100 [FTD 12 Jan 2005, source: OECD]
1. Luxemburg (1 in 1999) 205
2. Norway (3) 144
3. USA (2) 142
4. Ireland (9) 129
5. Switzerland (4) 128
6. Denmark (5) 118
Netherlands (7) 118
Austria (10) 118
9. Canada (7) 116
10. Iceland (6) 115
11. UK (17) 113
12. Belgium (12) 112
13. Sweden (16) 111
14. Australia (12) 110
15. Finland (18) 109
France (19) 109
17. Japan (11) 107
18. Germany (12) 105
Italy (15) 105
EU-15 105
Euroland 103
EU-25 96
20. Spain (22) 91
21. Israel (20) 89
22. New Zealand (23) 86
23. Cyprus (21) 80
24. Greece (25) 75
25. Portugal (24) 74
26. Slowenia (25) 73
27. S-Korea (27) 72
Malta (29) 72
29. Chechia (27) 65
30. Hungary (30) 56
... Poland 44

The "2005 Index of Economic Freedom"
Index of largest "economic freedom" from 1 (very liberal) to 5 (little liberal) [FTD 10 Jan 2005, source: Heritage Foundation]
1. Hongkong 1.35
2. Singapur 1.60
3. Luxemburg 1.63
4. Estland 1.65
5. Irland 1.70
New Zealand 1.70
7. UK 1.75
8. Denmark 1.76
Iceland 1.76
10. Australia 1.79
11. Chile 1.81
12. Switzerland 1.85
USA 1.85
14. Sweden 1.89
15. Finland 1.90
16. Canada 1.91
17. Netherlands 1.95
18. Germany 2.00
...
44. France 2.63
...
63. Mexico 2.89
...
112. China 3.46

Debt

Debt in % of GDP [FTD 12 May 2005]
1970 1975 1980 1985 1990 1995 2000 2005/6
Japan 15% 25% 55% 75% 70% 85% 135% 175%
Germany 20% 25% 30% 40% 40% 55% 60% 70%
USA 50% 48% 45% 60% 70% 75% 60% 67%

State spending in % of GDP [FTD 2005, source Destatis, OECD]
1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004
Germany 48% 47.5% 47.5% 47.9% 48.2% 47%
UK 37.5% 41.0% 41.8% 43.5% 43.7% 44%

External debt of African countries in billion $ [FTD 9 June 2005]
Nigeria 34.96
Egypt 31.38
South-Africa 27.81
Algeria 23.39
Marokko 18.80
Sudan 17.50

Total debt of developing countries: 2000 bn.$ [FTD 13 June 2005, source: Attac]

Import/Export
Leistungsbilanzsaldo in % of GDP, OECD prognosis for 2006 [FTD 25 May 2005, source OECD]
USA -6.7% (879 bn.$)
UK -2.4%
Euroland +0.3%
Japan +4.1%
Germany +4.9%

Direct foreign investment
2004 [FTD 30 June 2005]
in Japan: 37.5 bn $ (larger for the first time than Japanese companies inverstment abroad, 2/3 from US) = 2% of Japan's GDP; in USA: 22%; UK: 37%
from Japanese companies: 35.5 bn $, of which in first half of 2004, 14.6% went to China, 11.5% to USA

Defence

Defence budget 2001 in billion Euro [Spiegel 11/2002]
(increase 2002 [Spiegel Online, 17 June 2003, source: SIPRI]) Weapons export 1998-2000 (2002) in billion US$ [Spiegel Online, 17 June 2003, source: SIPRI]

354 (+10%) USA 37.7 (3.9)

50 (+12%) Russia 20.7 (5.9)

46 Japan ?

39 (+0%) UK 4.8 (0.7)

29 (+0%) France 8.3 (1.6)

24 (+0%) Germany 5.0 (0.7)

19 (+20%) China 1.6 (0.8)
? Ukraine 2.7 (0.3)
? Italy 1.8 (0.5)
? Netherlands 1.5 (0.3)
? Belarus 1.1

2002 world-wide defence budgets: 794 billion $US = 674 billion Euro (14% higher than 1998, 16% lower than 1988) [Spiegel Online, 17 June 2003, source: SIPRI]
2004 world-wide defence budgets: 1005 billion $. The USA has a 47% share. Europe spent 254 bn$ (down from 256). Increase +14.3% in Asia, +12% in North-Africa, +9.9% in North-America. [FTD 8 June 2005, source: SIPRI]

European Union
Largest net payers for the EU budget 2003 (100 bn. €) in % of GDP (in bn €) [FTD 7 June 2005]
Netherlands
0.43 (1.9)
Germany
0.36 (7.65)
Sweden
0.36 (0.95)
Belgium
0.28 (0.78)
Luxemburg
0.28 (0.06)
UK
0.16 (2.76)

Infrastructure: Railway
High speed railways [DB mobil 01/2003]
new built railways for >= 250km/h personkilometers 2001
Japan 2175km 71,200 mio
EU >3175km >62,900 mio
France 1520km 37,400 mio
Germany 796km 15,500 mio
Spain 471km 2,400 mio
Italy 246km 6,800 mio
Belgium 142km 800 mio