But wages have grown at a far slower pace than GDP.

Real GDP growth in 2007 was 6.0 per cent.

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.

Argentina s long term GDP growth has been disappointing.

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.

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

China s GDP growth fell dramatically, owing to the collapse of external demand.

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.

Historically, inflation in China has followed GDP growth with a lag.

After many years of outperformance, GDP growth has slowed sharply.

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

GDP growth registered more than 10 per year in 2006 and 2007.

Politicians have exacerbated the situation by doubling down on fiscal austerity, which has undermined GDP growth while failing to shrink government debt GDP ratios.

That is, China s annual GDP growth rate would drop by four percentage points if its exports did not grow at all.

Since the second quarter of 2009, US annualized real GDP growth has averaged 2.4 .

China s GDP growth, which relies heavily on credit, will take a hit.

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

While nominal GDP generally rises over long periods of time at the same rate as the money stock, with interest rates very low and declining, households and institutions were willing to hold more money relative to total nominal GDP after 2008. So, while M2 grew by more than 6 , nominal GDP grew by just 3.5 and the GDP price index rose by only 1.7 .

Low or negative population growth also implies lower potential economic growth and therefore worse debt to GDP dynamics and increasingly grave doubts about the sustainability of public sector debt.

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

This generates liquidity, which then stimulates GDP growth.

Only 11 of its China beating nominal GDP growth between 2003 and 2011 was due to growth in real (inflation adjusted) output.

As of this year, 1 of GDP growth is consistent with more than 3.5 of credit growth.

In 2004, the economy experienced 6.4 GDP growth and 7.1 in 2007, its fastest pace of growth in three decades.

After years of double digit GDP growth, the PRC s economy is decelerating.

BEIJING China s GDP growth this year may approach 10 .

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

From now on, consumption must grow much faster than GDP.

Indeed, annual GDP growth has fallen by five percentage points since 2010.

But, over the same period, annual GDP growth has averaged a modest 3.5 , and productivity growth has slipped into negative territory.

With such low growth, the 3 of GDP ceiling for annual fiscal deficits is no longer compatible with the 60 limit on the debt GDP ratio that the Maastricht Treaty stipulates for the euro countries.

Today, domestic investment has plummeted, exports are languishing, and GDP growth is down to around 4.5 per year.

Improving the quality of GDP growth will depend on Chinese leaders willingness to enact market oriented reforms.

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

Despite real growth in gross domestic product, most least developed countries have fallen even further behind.

1 In 2004, Guatemala reverted to real per capita GDP growth.

The key to restoring China s GDP growth is, therefore, returning fixed asset investment growth to at least 25 .

This additional economic activity will boost overall GDP growth, yielding significant new fiscal revenues.

Official Chinese policy in recent years has been to make GDP growth greener.

The European Commission has warned that this will put a lower ceiling on GDP growth rates.

This damage could lower annual GDP growth by 1 1.5 for several years to come.

France is coming closer to the danger zone, and even Germany s annual GDP growth is falling well below 1 per year.

Upon the end of the war in 2003, GDP growth began to accelerate, reaching 9.4 in 2007.

Real GDP growth continued at a modest pace in 2004 in the Pacific island economies.

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