Consistent policy and superior technology explain why Japan uses one tenth the energy that China uses to generate the same amount of economic output.

In the late 50s, Ghana and Singapore had the same GDP.

Potential output has also been called the natural gross domestic product.

Another 40 of GDP comes from the private sector.

What the minister intends to say is serious, because if attacks happen outside Bogotá, the potential GNP decreases more than proportionately to the real GNP, which means that the gross national product figures he can show are, according to this measurement, more significant.

In economics, potential output (also referred to as natural gross domestic product ) refers to the highest level of real Gross Domestic Product output that can be sustained over the long term.

The world annual Gross Domestic Product is about 65 trillion.

The communications sector accounts for 11.9 per cent of GDP.

When the USSR collapsed, the government investment was 70 of the GDP.

Meanwhile the 47 of workers involved in the services sector are responsible for 56 of GDP.

Fiscal positions are solid and public debt amounts to only 32 of the region s GDP.

Raising animals for human consumption accounts for approximately 40 of the total amount of agricultural output in industrialized countries.

If actual output is below potential output, this means that total spending is insufficient to buy what the economy can produce.

The combination of household and corporate saving brings total private saving to 7.5 of GDP.

By the time Ikeda left office, the GNP was growing at a phenomenal rate of 13.9 percent.

After the Bretton Woods conference in 1944, GDP became the main tool for measuring a country's economy.

Much economic activity lies outside the GDP data.

Even an economy with an overall budget deficit will have a declining government debt GDP ratio if the growth rate of its nominal GDP exceeds that of its debt.

But when the GDP figures for the second quarter are reported later this summer, the government s statisticians will annualize the 1.5 increase and add 6 in calculating the annual growth rate. If economic activity apart from the stimulus package is continuing to decline at nearly the 6 annual rate that was recorded in the last two quarters, the temporary boost from the stimulus package will suffice to make the overall GDP change close to zero or even positive.

Together, these changes could lower total demand by nearly 2 of GDP.

Over the last 30 years, in terms of the GDP growth rates, China has grown at twice the rate of India.

It's basically two ratios of per capita GDP, per capita gross domestic product, so average income.

In the coming years, total consolidation is set to increase to around 9 of GDP.

Sports are already a separate economic sector, representing around 2 of the GNP of several developed countries.

The service sector of the economy, including tourism, education, and financial services, accounts for about 70 of GDP.

The service sector is the largest component of GDP at 64.1 , followed by the industrial sector at 24.7 (2008 est.).

So Bhutan has this really wacky thing where they base most of their high level governmental decisions around the concept of gross national happiness instead of gross domestic product, and they've been doing this since the '70s.

It turns out even during the Cultural Revolution, China out perfomed India in terms of GDP growth by an average of about 2.2 percent every year in terms of per capita GDP.

As a result of the tsunami, the GDP contracted by about 3.6 in 2005.

In China, total public debt currently amounts to roughly 60 70 of GDP a manageable burden.

The tourism sector continued to be the main economic driver, accounting for on average 25 per cent of economic output during the period.

In 2010, economic output was dominated by the service sector which accounted for 66 of GDP, followed by the industrial sector with 27.2 and agriculture accounting for 6.8 of GDP.

The ratio of total public debt to GDP was less than 22 in 2007 2008, before the global financial crisis.

The US now borrows 2 billion a day, 95 of it from Asia and 45 of that amount from China s central bank. America s total debt exceeds 39 trillion dollars, or roughly 3.5 times US GDP.

Thirty five years ago, they promised to give 0.7 of their GNP to poor countries as development aid.

China s gross saving rate (the percentage of GDP that is not consumed immediately), which includes both public and private saving, is around 50 .

In 2006, the share of external trade in India's GDP stood at 24 , up from 6 in 1985.

That way, the debt GDP ratio declines because the denominator (economic output) increases, not because the numerator (the total the government has borrowed) declines.

The resulting economic inequality a result of politics as much as market forces contributes to today s overall economic weakness.

Thus, although China s total money supply seems excessive, with the M2 to GDP ratio now at about 190 , the real monetary base is actually much smaller than it appears.

Since 2008, banking sector credit growth in China has been among the fastest in the world, far outpacing GDP growth, and China s total debt has risen from 130 of GDP to 220 of GDP.

The EU budget amounts to about 1 of GDP, just one fortieth of total public expenditure. No one, not even die hard European integrationists, imagines that it can reach 5 of GDP (it is more likely to decrease).

That means that the world economy is now producing around 70 trillion in total annual output, compared to around 10 trillion in 1960.

Putin promises to double Russia's GDP by 2010 an ambitious aim, and success would improve democracy's prospects.

As firms shed workers during the economic downturn, output fell more slowly.