The ratio of savings to gross domestic product has risen.

Portugal has a 93 debt to GDP ratio and already has very high unemployment rate.

GDP growth rate (percentage)

One problem cited in many debtor countries was a low investment rate (and in some cases, a low domestic saving rate).

Current growth of the gross domestic product (GDP) is 2.4 per cent per annum.

Slight growth in the gross domestic product was expected in 1993.

Saving. A domestic saving rate in excess of 50 has served China well.

GDP annual average growth for the period of 1995 2002 was 5.1 .

The latter continues to climb at a rate much faster than that of domestic production.

And lagging household income clearly contributes to China s trade surplus, because low domestic consumption tends to keep exports higher than imports.

That would leave a net national saving rate of just 2.5 of GDP.

)The GDP grew after 1996 at an annual rate that averaged 3.2 real growth.

In 2012, the growth rate of M2 was about 14 , relatively low by historical standards, but still significantly higher than the nominal GDP growth rate.

In 2005, GDP increased by 9.9 the inflation rate averaged 9.5 .

The rapid rise in saving has reduced consumer spending, slowing the pace of GDP growth in 2009 and in early 2010.

The average real growth rate was 4.5 per cent, whereas the rate of inflation was lowered and stabilized at less than 5 per cent. The budget deficit remained less than 5 per cent of gross domestic product (GDP).

A drop of one percentage point in China s investment rate is estimated to reduce Taiwan s GDP growth rate by 0.9 percentage points and Korea s by 0.6 percentage points.

The GDP growth rate was only 1.7 in 2011, and it is not significantly higher now.

The Japanese government has been able to sell its bonds to domestic buyers because of the high rate of domestic saving.

It is estimated that by the end of 2004 a growth rate of 4 in gross domestic product will have been achieved.

So, by the end of the year, we will see a slightly improved level of GDP, but the rate of GDP growth is likely to return to negative territory.

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.

China has shown how quickly progress can be made on infrastructure. But, unlike China, Africa s domestic savings rate is a meager 15 of GDP, grossly inadequate to finance the infrastructure gap.

Their net effect will be to raise consumption as a share of GDP and to reduce the national saving rate.

Even more worrying, the rate of GDP growth has been declining almost from the start of the recovery.

By contrast, China had a fixed investment rate of 41.7 of GDP and a savings rate of 51.9 , reflected in a large surplus.

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.

GDP purchasing power parity in 2003 was around 2.33 billion, GDP real growth rate was approximately 2 per cent and per capita purchasing power parity was 36,000, one of the highest in the world.6 At the same time, Bermuda's high cost of living relegates it to ninth place on the list of countries with the highest purchasing power.7 In September 2004, Bermuda's inflation rate rose to 3.9 per cent, representing the highest inflation level in 14 years.

No politician has publicly stated that US solvency requires such draconian adjustments, because the American public is far from agreeing to the sacrifice needed.

But what China really needs is a greater effort to promote domestic consumption and lower the savings rate.

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

First, in the last 10 years we have achieved a sustained growth rate of over 5 per cent of our gross domestic product (GDP).

It is estimated that in 1992 the average gross domestic product (GDP) growth rate of the developing economies of the region will accelerate to 6.9 per cent.

In 2007, the United States had a savings rate of 14.6 of GDP, but an investment rate of 19.6 , generating a current account deficit.

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

But the fall in domestic saving is likely to cause the Chinese government to allow the renminbi to appreciate more rapidly.

But a slowdown to 7 annual growth would still double China s GDP over the next decade.

India s government predicts 6.9 annual GDP growth in 2012, which would be the lowest rate since 2009.

If the saving rate now rises quickly to that level, it will be hard to keep overall GDP growing.

In recent years, GDP growth rates within the region have averaged less than 2 per cent.

Its unemployment rate is currently 10 , and GDP growth this year will be in the vicinity of 1.3 , only slightly above the EU average.

With an agriculture based economy, in which the growth rate of GDP was lower than that of the population, the Government needed to lay the foundations of sustainable economic development in order to reinforce political stability.

Since China s external surplus is already down to less than 2 of GDP, a decline in domestic saving could result in China beginning to run a current account deficit.

If the saving rate continues to rise at the same pace in the future as it has over the past three years, the overall GDP growth rate could turn negative after a few quarters.

With fixed supply, rents on these properties should increase at a rate equal to or above the rate of GDP growth.