GDP is contracting.

GDP Fetishism

That is about 4 of Japanese GDP in 2010.

Growth is not just a matter of increasing GDP.

China is currently investing almost half of its GDP.

Infrastructure The transport sector is around 14 of GDP.

A better way to judge post crisis performance is to look at the output gap that is, actual GDP relative to potential GDP.

Non Oil GDP

Budget ( of GDP)

Consider Green GDP.

If economists did not habitually annualize quarterly GDP data and multiply quarterly GDP by four, Greece s debt to GDP ratio would be four times higher than it is now.

A savings rate of 50 of GDP is too high under any circumstances, and household consumption equivalent to 35 of GDP is too low.

A better way to judge post crisis performance is to look at the output gap 160 that is, actual GDP relative to potential GDP.

Greece s fiscal deficit is expected to reach 12.7 of GDP this year, far exceeding the SGP s 3 of GDP cap.

Greece s GDP share in the European Union is about 3 .

Its per capita GDP is only half that of Brazil.

An alternative approach is to use a GDP weighted benchmark.

The difference in social protection spending is 9 of GDP.

One third of Nepal's GDP is made up of remittances.

Some will object that there is little point in creating GDP linked bonds in advanced countries, because there is little uncertainty about GDP growth there.

While Japan s gross public debt, for example, is a massive 246 of GDP, the net figure, accounting for intra government debts, is 127 of GDP.

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

As a proportion of GDP, it has been halved since the early 1990 s, and is now just 1 of GDP.

If economists did not habitually annualize quarterly GDP data and multiply quarterly GDP by four, Greece s debt to GDP ratio would be four times higher than it is now. And if they habitually decadalized GDP, multiplying the quarterly GDP numbers by 40 instead of four, Greece s debt burden would be 15 .

This year's real GDP is expected to grow a mere 1.5 .

Of course, significantly faster GDP growth in 2014 is not guaranteed.

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

Similarly, GDP per capita is not a measure of personal income.

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

The economy is contracting so much that the debt GDP ratio is actually increasing, and the actual deficit is improving only marginally, because government revenues are falling along with GDP.

But that will not be true this year, because consumer prices are falling, whereas the GDP deflator (and nominal GDP) is still increasing.

In GDP terms, it fell even more, because GDP grew by 8.7 in 2008.

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.

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

At nearly 70 of GDP, consumption in the US is too high.

GDP is the most comprehensive measure we have of an economy s success.

This 600 billion fall in demand is more than 3 of GDP.

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

Even though GDP is artificially inflated, some useful activities are carried out.

The equivalent figure in developed markets is usually over 100 of GDP.

Equivalent to 1 of US GDP, it is large by all accounts.

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

Tourism is an expanding sector which now accounts for 25 of GDP.

Curr. Acc t ( of GDP)

GDP has been our hammer.