Cotton accounts for 40 percent of GDP and roughly 80 percent of official export receipts.

While the Paris region's population accounted for 18.8 percent of metropolitan France in 2011, the Paris region's GDP accounted for 31 percent of metropolitan France's GDP.

And we had GDP grow from an average of 2.3 percent the previous decade to about 6.5 percent now.

Twenty percent of global GDP already is produced in water scarce areas.

Members' defense spending is supposed to amount to 2 percent of GDP.

The OECD estimates that Canada's net financial liabilities fell to 32.2 percent of GDP in 2004, down from 69.3 percent in 1995.

Currently, the net contribution to GDP in this sector is 19.1 percent.

The project already accounts for an estimated five percent of Lesotho's GDP, and when fully completed, it could account for as much as 20 percent.

which ensure that over five percent of the province's GDP is accounted for by this trade.

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.

Kosovo has a strongly negative balance of trade in 2004, the deficit of the balance of goods and services was close to 70 percent of GDP, and was 39 of GDP in 2011.

The United States has been running a chronic current account deficit, which exceeded 6 percent of GDP at its peak.

And this zero hunger program costs .5 percent of GDP and has lifted many millions of people out of hunger and poverty.

In 2007, Georgia's real GDP growth rate reached 12 percent making Georgia one of the fastest growing economies in Eastern Europe.

But in the last two decades, it has experienced an unprecedented expansion, now accounting for roughly 15 percent of the world's GDP.

It has declined in importance during the 20th century and by 1989 amounted to only 1.6 percent of the West German GDP.

Although agriculture's share of East German GDP was twice as high as in the west, even after the two economies are completely united, agriculture's share of GDP is expected to amount to only about two percent.

The government is committed to raising its budgetary expenditures at least by over 0.2 percent of GDP per annum starting FY 2001 02.

I mean, can you picture a politician standing up in Britain and saying, GDP fell two percent this year. Good news!

And yet, 64 percent of the world's GDP today is in that intangible industry we call service, the service industry, the industry I'm in.

The fact is studies show that the cost of malnutrition and hunger the cost to society, the burden it has to bear is on average six percent, and in some countries up to 11 percent, of GDP a year.

European cohesion funds account for only a fraction of a percent of European GDP, whereas about 10 of national income is typically spent on social transfers.

And what you can see is that over the last 25 years, Greece has barely managed to save more than 10 percent of their GDP.

We rise to an astronomical level, around 118 percent of GDP, But we pay it off, pay it off, pay it off, and then, what's this?

This reflects a significant shift from past budgetary performance when anti poverty public expenditures declined by an average of 0.25 percent of GDP per annum, during 1995 2000.

This debt reduction, coupled with Canada's strong economic growth, has resulted in a significant decline in the federal debt to GDP (Gross Domestic Product) ratio, from its peak of 68.4 percent in 1995 1996 to an expected 38.8 percent in 2004 2005.

Georgian is the primary language of approximately 71 percent of the population, followed by 9 percent speaking Russian, 7 percent Armenian, 6 percent Azerbaijani, and 7 percent other languages.

Economic performance in several Latin American countries was relatively weak in this period, with Uruguay s real GDP per capita actually recording a fall by a fraction of a percent.

Japan's main import markets were China (21.3 percent), the US (8.8 percent), Australia (6.4 percent), Saudi Arabia (6.2 percent), United Arab Emirates (5.0 percent), South Korea (4.6 percent) and Qatar (4.0 percent).

Of the decked vessels, 86 percent are found in Asia, 7.8 percent in Europe, 3.8 percent in North and Central America, 1.3 percent in Africa, 0.6 percent in South America and 0.4 percent in Oceania.

It is theoretically possible that the six Executive Board members plus France, Germany, and Italy, representing 65 percent of the eurozone s GDP, could be outvoted by a coalition of small countries.

The economy showed strong signs of recovery after 2005 GDP growth for that year was 2.8 percent, surpassing the growth rates of the US and European Union during the same period.

The Economy of Angola is one of the fastest growing economies in the world, with the Economist asserting that for 2001 to 2010, Angolas' Annual average GDP growth was 11.1 percent.

An average African country receives foreign aid to the tune of 13, 15 percent of its GDP, and that is an unprecedented transfer of financial resources from rich countries to poor countries.

Infrastructure , 46.1 percent of energy in Japan was produced from petroleum, 21.3 percent from coal, 21.4 percent from natural gas, 4.0 percent from nuclear power, and 3.3 percent from hydropower.

Chocolate liquor contains roughly 53 percent cocoa butter (fat), about 17 percent carbohydrates, 11 percent protein, 6 percent tannins, and 1.5 percent theobromine.

Approximately 98 percent of Canadians speak English or French 57.8 percent speak English only, 22.1 percent speak French only, and 17.4 percent speak both.

The bronze medal is made up of 97 percent copper, 2.5 percent zinc and 0.5 percent tin.

Our societies now spend two, three, four percent of GDP to invest systematically in new discovery, in science, in technology, to fuel the pipeline of brilliant inventions which illuminate gatherings like this.

Education finance According to the World Bank database, public education expenditure as percentage of GDP is 2.7 in 2007 and public education expenditure as percent of government spending is 9.6 in 2007.

Nigeria 70 percent of roads are untarred. Zambia 80 percent.

57.1 percent of the girls have anemia 23 percent of the adolescent female population suffer chronic energy deficiency 61 percent have unwanted pregnancies, with 12 percent of them undergoing abortion and 70 percent performing the abortion themselves 10 percent assisted by traditional helpers to perform the abortion, but only 7 percent by making use of professional medical assistance

Other agricultural exports in 2009 were meat 13.2 percent, wool 6.3 percent, fruit 3.5 percent and fishing 3.3 percent.

The sodium content (in mass percent) of MSG 12 percent is about one third of that in sodium chloride (39 percent).

And yet, the reality in resource poor countries, in the absence of tests and treatment, 40 percent 40 percent of children are infected 40 percent versus two percent an enormous difference.