Category: Markets
World Watch
As to the World Bank data, the world constitutes a total surface area of 133940.9 thousand square kilometers in the year 2004. The estimated population over the world has reached at 6,525,170,264 according to July 2006 estimation with an annual percentage growth rate of 1.14. It has a life expectancy rate of 64.77 years as to July 2006 estimation. The birth rate and death rate per 1000 is calculated at 20.05 and 8.67 respectively in the same year. The infant mortality rate per 1,000 life births for July 2006 is 48.87.
World Population Growth
The fast rising populations have put global challenges particularly before the developing nations in the form of hunger, starvations and malnutrition. It has become a great problem on the part of the developing nations to find out the way of feeding their masses.
The population projection in some of the countries over the world is as follows:
Global Exports Growth Rate
For the year 2006, the global trade activities were slowed down due to the poor performance among the developing countries.
According to the given statistics, global exports increased by 14.1 percent in terms of US Dollar for the first nine months of the year 2006 in comparison to 15.5 percent in 2005. On the contrary the advanced nations over the world have experienced a faster rate of growth.
The growth rates of exports among various countries over the world are as follows:
Economy of Sub Saharan Africa
The World Bank has classified the economies of the world on the basis of income and region for the year 2006. This is a classification of all the member countries of the World Bank and other economies with populations more than 30,000. The groups made are as follows:
UN Human Development Report
The Human Development Report for 2005 was released by United Nations Development Programme. The report for 2005 focuses on cooperation, which includes development assistance, international trade and security. The report follows human development categories in various nations.
Here we have covered nations coming under various human development categories as in 2005.
1. High Human Development Categories
The following list of 10 nations comes under high human development categories:
WORLD ECONOMIC INDICATORS
| Economy | Units | 2000 | 2003 | 2004 |
| GNI, Atlas Method | Current $ US | 2.1 trillion | 2.3 trillion | 2.7 trillion |
| GNI Per Capita, Atlas Method |
