Definition: This entry gives GDP growth on an annual basis adjusted for inflation and expressed as a percent.
Source: CIA World Factbook - Unless otherwise noted, information in this page is accurate as of January 1, 2012
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Russian GDP Growth at 1.6% as Economy Weakest Since 2009
Bloomberg - 5/17/2013 2:15:36 PM
Russia’s economy grew at the weakest pace since 2009 in the first quarter as the euro area’s longest recession hurt demand for commodity exports and investment at companies including OAO Gazprom cooled. Gross domestic product rose 1.6 ...
OECD reports GDP growth of 0.4 pct in Q1
china.org.cn - 5/21/2013 2:39:29 PM
The gross domestic product (GDP) in the OECD area saw a 0.4-percent increase in the first quarter of 2013, on the back of a flat growth rate registered in the fourth quarter of 2012, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) said ...
UPDATE 3-Chile economic growth cools, slowest in year-and-a-half
Reuters - 5/20/2013 5:25:18 PM
* Chile first quarter GDP growth up 4.1 pct vs year earlier * Some eye interest rate cut as robust economy slows * Central bank has held key rate at 5 pct since January 2012 SANTIAGO, May 20 (Reuters) - Chile's economic growth eased in the first ...
As Japan Courts Growth, Europe Keeps Up Its Love Affair With Austerity
New York Times - 5/16/2013 11:56:36 PM
Even as Europe fell deeper into what just became its longest recession since World War II, Japan posted an unexpectedly robust growth rate of 3.5 percent under ... consumption also have risen. “The real economy is responding,” said Adam ...
JIM O'NEILL: I've Found Myself Asking 2 Questions About The Economy I Didn't Expect To
The Business Insider - 5/18/2013 5:42:00 PM
Jim O'Neill economist and former chairman of Goldman Sachs Asset Management That time period, which coincidentally spans my professional career, has seen the global economy increase by approximately 3.4pc per annum in purchasing power parity terms.
BBS revises GDP growth at 6.03pc
Financial Express - 5/16/2013 6:05:51 PM
Bangladesh's GDP growth started to fall since 2011-12 after an impressive performance in 2010-11 when the country's economy expanded at a rate of 6.71 per cent. Development experts said external shocks, especially in the economic meltdown in USA and Euro ...
Nigeria’s Poverty Should Be Lower Given Growth, IMF Says
Bloomberg - 5/20/2013 1:50:34 PM
“Income per capita has gone up yet poverty isn’t improving and we’re having a difficult time understanding why that is or how that could be.” Economic growth has been largely driven by the non-oil industries ... to use 2010 or 2012 ...
MALAYSIA, A VIBRANT ECONOMY: Nation's report card good
nst.com.my - 5/21/2013 11:22:02 PM
THERE are many reports on the Malaysian economy based on specific areas like debts, which can be misleading and give a skewed picture. It would be a simplistic argument, like looking at someone's total debts, but ignoring the person's earnings or earning ...
The problem with poor countries’ GDP
Today Online - 5/16/2013 8:07:32 PM
The answer depends, in part, on how we measure growth and improvements in people’s lives. Traditionally, one of the guiding factors has been per capita gross domestic product (GDP) — the value of goods and services produced by a country in a year ...
UAE economic growth accelerates to 4.4% in 2012
arabianbusiness.com - 5/20/2013 5:58:07 AM
"All economic activities saw positive improvement in their growth rates in 2012, which has positively reflected ... adding that the non-oil sector share on the Gulf country's real GDP was estimated at 67.3 percent in 2012. Analysts polled ...
As Japan's Growth Returns, Will Europe Learn?
CNBC - 5/17/2013 1:51:08 AM
For years, Japan and Europe have been the sick men of the world economy. This week, their paths diverged. Even as Europe fell deeper into what just became its longest recession since World War II ... a different navigation map, change course,' instead ...
Thailand ETF Embodies New World Order
FOXBusiness - 5/20/2013 5:10:59 PM
Perhaps it should be even worse that the country's 2013 GDP forecast has been lowered. Neither of those factors are holding back the iShares MSCI Thailand Capped Investable Market Index Fund (THD) Monday. THD, which was sitting on a year-to-date ...
UPDATE 4-Mexico annual growth slows sharply, govt cuts forecast
Reuters - 5/17/2013 6:40:27 PM
* GDP growth 0.45 percent in 1st qtr vs 4th qtr 2012, beating forecast * Annual growth slows to 0.8 percent, weakest since 2009 * Government lowers 2013 GDP forecast to 3.1 percent * Economists looking for interest rate cut later By Krista ...
Lucintel’s Country Analysis of Austria: Economy to Reach $427 Billion by 2018
Digital Journal - 5/17/2013 12:49:42 PM
The nation is forecast to grow at approximately 0.2% real GDP growth rate in 2013. Austria faces a high sovereign debt situation, however, and the external debt of the country is more than 50% of the GDP. If that debt continues to increase, Austria could ...
Tanzania growth to average 7 pct over 2013-2015: World Bank
Yahoo! News - 5/21/2013 12:09:09 PM
DAR ES SALAAM (Reuters) - Tanzania's economy is expected to expand at a slightly faster pace over the next two years after growing 6.9 percent in 2012, the World Bank said on Tuesday. It said it expected inflation in east Africa's second largest economy to ...
