2008 Economic Statistics and Indicators

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Economic Data for Year: 2008
Countries Included: All world countries, economic regions, geographical regions
Indicators: Over 50 indicators from our database of 1,000 are currently display by Econ Stats
Data Sources: IMF, World Bank, UN, OECD, CIA World Factbook
Last Updated: 1 Sept 2009

This page is a gateway for all economic indicators for all countries and regions in the world for the year 2008.

In 2008. World gdp was US$ 60,689.81 Billion, which represented growth of 3.203 % over 2007. Average gdp was US$ 342.84 Billion.

For the year 2008, global inflation was running at 5.969 %, investment as a % of world GDP was 23.987 %, gross national savings as a % of world GDP was 24.219 %, and the current account balance of all countries stood at US$ 249.484 Billion of global GDP.





Country Listing in Year 2008
  Country GDP
(US Billions)
GDP Growth
(%)
  the World $60,689.81 3.203%  
  Advanced Economies $42,099.54 0.85%  
  Euro Area $13,633.36 0.855%  
  Major advanced economies (G7) $32,220.55 0.64%  
  Newly industrialized Asian Economies $1,737.06 1.55%  
  Other Advanced Economies (Excluding G7 and Eurozone) $5,088.93 1.576%  
  European Union $18,394.12 1.114%  
  Emerging and Developing Economies $18,590.27 6.111%  
  Africa $1,277.90 5.173%  
  Sub Saharan African $991.49 5.487%  
  Central and Eastern Europe $1,859.58 2.945%  
  Developing Asia $7,238.73 7.74%  
  Middle East $1,813.96 5.917%  
  Western Hemisphere $4,210.26 4.173%  
  Afghanistan $12.061 3.35%  
  Albania $12.964 6.768%  
  Algeria $159.669 3%  
  Angola $83.384 14.798%  
  Andorra $n/a n/a%  
  Netherlands Antilles $n/a n/a%  
  American Samoa $n/a n/a%  
  Anguilla $n/a n/a%  
  Antigua and Barbuda $1.256 4.2%  
  Argentina $326.474 6.969%  
  Armenia $11.928 6.8%  
  Aruba $n/a n/a%  
  Australia $1,010.70 2.061%  
  Austria $415.321 1.763%  
  Azerbaijan $46.378 11.63%  
  Bahamas $7.463 -1.25%  
  Bahrain $21.236 6.119%  
  Bangladesh $81.938 5.587%  
  Barbados $3.682 0.6%  
  Belarus $60.288 10%  
  Belgium $506.392 1.063%  
  Belize $1.381 3%  
  Bermuda $n/a n/a%  
  Benin $6.94 4.978%  
  Bhutan $1.368 6.55%  
  Bolivia $17.413 5.918%  
  Bosnia and Herzegovina $18.469 5.5%  
  Botswana $13.461 2.946%  
  Brazil $1,572.84 5.076%  
  British Virgin Islands $n/a n/a%  
  Brunei Darussalam $14.553 -1.513%  
  Bulgaria $51.989 6.016%  
  Burkina Faso $8.103 5.003%  
  Burundi $1.097 4.53%  
  Cambodia $11.182 6.034%  
  Cameroon $23.243 3.449%  
  Canada $1,510.96 0.457%  
  Cape Verde $1.723 5.885%  
  Cayman Islands $n/a n/a%  
  Central African Republic $1.997 2.2%  
  Chad $8.39 -0.408%  
  Chile $169.573 3.203%  
  China $4,401.61 9.047%  
  Comoros $0.532 0.975%  
  Congo $11.589 6.197%  
  Congo, Republic of $10.774 5.572%  
  Cook Islands $n/a n/a%  
  Cuba $n/a n/a%  
  Costa Rica $29.828 2.941%  
  Ivory Coast $23.508 2.33%  
  Croatia $69.332 2.359%  
  Cyprus $24.943 3.655%  
  Czech Republic $217.077 3.215%  
  Denmark $342.925 -1.141%  
  Djibouti $0.982 5.784%  
  Dominica $0.364 2.606%  
  Dominican Republic $45.597 4.846%  
  Ecuador $52.572 5.316%  
  Egypt $162.164 7.155%  
  El Salvador $22.115 2.545%  
  Equatorial Guinea $18.525 11.294%  
  Eritrea $1.476 1.031%  
  Estonia $23.232 -3.636%  
  Ethiopia $25.658 11.611%  
  Falkland Islands $n/a n/a%  
  Faroe Islands $n/a n/a%  
  Fiji $3.59 0.2%  
  Finland $273.98 0.919%  
  France $2,865.74 0.716%  
  Gabon $14.519 2.013%  
  Gambia $0.808 5.856%  
  Georgia $12.87 2.039%  
  Germany $3,667.51 1.29%  
  Ghana $16.124 7.164%  
  Greece $357.549 2.932%  
  Grenada $0.639 0.3%  
  Guatemala $38.956 4.028%  
  Guinea $4.542 3.958%  
  Guinea Bissau $0.461 3.331%  
  Guyana $1.13 3.233%  
  French Polynesia $n/a n/a%  
  Gibraltar $n/a n/a%  
  Greenland $n/a n/a%  
  Guam $n/a n/a%  
  Haiti $6.952 1.3%  
  Honduras $14.126 4%  
  Hong Kong $215.559 2.477%  
  Hungary $156.284 0.57%  
  Iceland $17.549 0.335%  
  India $1,209.69 7.288%  
  Indonesia $511.765 6.062%  
  Iran $344.82 4.514%  
  Iraq $90.907 9.776%  
  Ireland $273.328 -2.264%  
  Israel $201.761 3.93%  
  Italy $2,313.89 -1.04%  
  Jamaica $14.397 -1.175%  
  Isle of Man $n/a n/a%  
  Jersey $n/a n/a%  
  Japan $4,923.76 -0.641%  
  Jordan $20.03 6%  
  Kazakhstan $132.229 3.2%  
  Kenya $30.236 2.008%  
  Kiribati $0.137 3.4%  
  Korea $947.01 2.224%  
  Kuwait $158.089 6.325%  
  Kyrgyzstan $5.049 7.6%  
  Laos $5.26 7.221%  
  Latvia $34.054 -4.626%  
  Lebanon $28.939 8.5%  
  Lesotho $1.62 3.511%  
  Liberia $0.836 7.131%  
  Libya $100.071 6.718%  
  Liechtenstein $n/a n/a%  
  Lithuania $47.304 3.017%  
  Luxembourg $54.973 0.681%  
  Macedonia $9.569 5%  
  Madagascar $9.254 5.039%  
  Malawi $4.268 9.7%  
  Malaysia $222.219 4.641%  
  Maldives $1.259 5.677%  
  Mali $8.783 4.987%  
  Malta $8.338 1.556%  
  Mauritania $3.161 2.229%  
  Mauritius $8.738 6.587%  
  Mayotte $n/a n/a%  
  Micronesia $n/a n/a%  
  Monaco $n/a n/a%  
  Montserrat $n/a n/a%  
  Marshall Islands $n/a n/a%  
  Mexico $1,088.13 1.348%  
  Moldova $6.124 7.2%  
  Mongolia $5.258 8.859%  
  Montenegro $4.822 7.5%  
  Morocco $86.394 5.44%  
  Mozambique $9.654 6.176%  
  Myanmar $27.182 4.538%  
  Namibia $8.456 2.875%  
  Nauru $n/a n/a%  
  New Caledonia $n/a n/a%  
  Niue $n/a n/a%  
  Norfolk Island $n/a n/a%  
  Northern Mariana Islands $n/a n/a%  
  Nepal $12.698 4.702%  
  Netherlands $868.94 2.012%  
  New Zealand $128.492 0.267%  
  Nicaragua $6.35 3%  
  Niger $5.379 9.517%  
  Nigeria $214.403 5.285%  
  Norway $456.226 2.013%  
  Oman $52.584 6.176%  
  Pakistan $167.64 5.951%  
  Panama $23.088 9.181%  
  Papua New Guinea $8.092 6.954%  
  Paraguay $16.006 5.8%  
  Peru $127.598 9.838%  
  Philippines $168.58 4.636%  
  Poland $525.735 4.763%  
  Portugal $244.492 -0.005%  
  Palau $n/a n/a%  
  Pitcairn Islands $n/a n/a%  
  Puerto Rico $n/a n/a%  
  Qatar $102.302 16.395%  
  Romania $199.673 7.1%  
  Russia $1,676.59 5.6%  
  Rwanda $4.459 11.229%  
  Samoa $0.537 4.49%  
  Sao Tome and Principe $0.176 5.8%  
  Saudi Arabia $481.631 4.63%  
  Senegal $13.35 2.487%  
  Serbia $50.061 5.426%  
  Seychelles $0.834 0.064%  
  Sierra Leone $1.955 5.516%  
  Singapore $181.939 1.149%  
  Slovakia $95.404 6.391%  
  Slovenia $54.639 3.541%  
  Solomon Islands $0.473 7.318%  
  South Africa $277.188 3.062%  
  Spain $1,611.77 1.158%  
  Sri Lanka $39.604 5.95%  
  Saint Kitts and Nevis $0.555 3%  
  Saint Lucia $1.025 1.723%  
  Saint Vincent and the Grenadines $0.601 0.9%  
  Sudan $57.911 6.841%  
  Suriname $2.984 6.5%  
  Swaziland $2.843 2.497%  
  Sweden $484.55 -0.229%  
  Switzerland $492.595 1.632%  
  Syria $54.803 5.154%  
  Saint Helena $n/a n/a%  
  Saint Pierre and Miquelon $n/a n/a%  
  San Marino $n/a n/a%  
  Somalia $n/a n/a%  
  Svalbard and Jan Mayen Islands $n/a n/a%  
  Taiwan $392.552 0.123%  
  Tajikistan $5.135 7.9%  
  Tanzania $20.721 7.463%  
  Thailand $273.248 2.579%  
  Timor Leste (East Timor) $0.499 12.798%  
  Togo $2.89 1.101%  
  Tonga $0.258 1.21%  
  Trinidad and Tobago $24.806 3.4%  
  Tunisia $40.348 4.454%  
  Turkey $729.443 1.06%  
  Turkmenistan $n/a 9.8%  
  Tokelau $n/a n/a%  
  Turks and Caicos Islands $n/a n/a%  
  Tuvalu $n/a n/a%  
  Uganda $14.529 9.534%  
  Ukraine $179.725 2.1%  
  United Arab Emirates $260.141 7.412%  
  United Kingdom $2,674.09 0.707%  
  United States $14,264.60 1.111%  
  Uruguay $32.262 8.9%  
  Uzbekistan $27.918 9%  
  Vanuatu $0.573 6.6%  
  Venezuela $319.443 4.82%  
  Vietnam $89.829 6.152%  
  US Virgin Islands $n/a n/a%  
  Wallis and Futuna Islands $n/a n/a%  
  West Bank $n/a n/a%  
  Western Sahara $n/a n/a%  
  Yemen $27.151 3.89%  
  Zambia $14.323 6.017%  
  Zimbabwe $n/a n/a%  
  World Average $342.84 3.91%  
* Source: IMF