The fishing industry contributes 1.3 per cent to the Territory's GDP.

The US federal deficit is an alarming 12 of GDP, and public debt as a share of national income is already projected to double, to 80 of GDP.

Since after tax personal income accounts for about 75 of GDP, a household saving rate of 6 translates into just 4.5 of GDP.

For many low income countries, remittances as a share of GDP and imports are larger than in the case of middle income countries.

Countries have long used national income accounts, with GDP as the main indicator, to describe economic performance.

The current shocks to GDP have led to falling levels of per capita income and brought widespread poverty.

The huge surge in the GDP growth rate of the more diversified economies brought overall per capita income up to its highest rate of 2.7 per cent.

(a) Estimates of gross national income

Japan s GDP share is about one third of Asia and 8 of the world.

In low income countries, half of all health care spending (about 2.5 of GDP) is out of pocket (compared to 2 in middle income countries).

To correct this, China needs to boost its people s sense of future financial security and affect a rise in private income commensurate with GDP growth.

If average annual economic growth is 5 per cent, the average resources needed would only represent 0.6 per cent of annual GDP.

But, despite their robust base and low administrative costs, excise taxes currently amount to less than 2 of low income countries GDP, compared to roughly 3 in high income countries.

GDP Fetishism

Exports have remained the main driver of economic performance for the ASEAN countries, contributing to 5.8 regional GDP growth in 2006. ASEAN foreign direct investment (FDI) flows reached US 38 billion in 2005, up by 48 from the previous year.

The consolidated primary surplus is 5 per cent of GDP and reserves have increased from nearly ten billion dollars to over twenty five billion.

One of the determining factors of health expenditure is the level of gross domestic product (GDP) and the share of health expenditure in GDP.

Besides mining (21.8 of GDP) and agriculture (16 of GDP), dominant industries in the composition of GDP are wholesale and retail trade and service, transportation and storage, and real estate activities.

Consider Green GDP.

The Problem with Poor Countries GDP

It took responsibility for obligations that amounted to a multiple of Ireland s national income, driving up government debt to more than 1,300 of GDP.

11 Dani Rodrik has argued that the ratio of trade to the gross domestic product of African countries is commensurate with their per capita income levels and their populations.

From a position of 5.1 real GDP growth in 1972, the UK went into recession in 1974, with GDP falling by 1.1 .

For Greece, with an overall deficit of 4.1 of GDP and a debt GDP ratio of 170 , the debt ratio would fall if the combination of inflation and real (inflation adjusted) GDP growth exceeded 2.4 .

The Black Hole in America s GDP

approximately 16.2 of gross domestic product(GDP).

The French government share in GDP is 54 , while Germany s is only 47 .

The annual budget deficit is nearly 10 of GDP, higher than any of the eurozone countries. With nominal GDP stagnating, that deficit is causing the debt GDP ratio to rise by 10 annually.

Current earmarkings are based on gross national income (GNI) per capita for 2001.

Rates and rules for personal and corporate income taxes appear reasonable by international standards. Nonetheless, India's government collects income taxes amounting to only about 3.7 of GDP, about half that in South Korea and the other Asian tigers.

And the tax burden, which has exceeded 40 of GDP since 1990, now stands at almost 43 of GDP.

Gross domestic product is taken to be the leading indicator of national well being.

Agriculture represents 5.9 , of GDP (2004).

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The ratio of savings to gross domestic product has risen.

The country has sustained its output growth by investing fully one half of GDP, though no country can productively invest more than a third of national income for an extended period.

Just to show you what we plotted, here is income, GDP GDP of the city crime and patents all on one graph.

To achieve that, the current deficit of 14 of GDP would have to fall to 5 of GDP or less.

It took a long time, but the contagion of a sound financial idea has been unmistakable. GDP linked bonds would also allow hedging the risk of inflation, plus respond to GDP growth.

The Irish banking system s external borrowing reached roughly 100 of GDP two Kazakhstans.

Our gross domestic product (GDP) has exceeded the goals we set, and investment in the fight against poverty, has, as a proportion of GDP, also been slightly higher than forecast.

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

How should one compare growth records among a group of similar, developed countries? The best measure is not overall GDP growth, but the growth of income per head of the working age population (not per capita).

And there is plenty more to come. At around 47 of GDP, China s embryonic services sector remains well short of the 60 65 share that a middle income economy typically possesses.

In 2011, France s ratio of new debt to GDP was three times higher than Germany s, with the public sector accounting for more than 56 of national income.