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Global Economic Growth


The Global Competitiveness Report 2006-07 prepared by the World Economic Forum (WEF) in collaboration with its top research institutes and business organizations has shown the Scandinavian countries like Finland and Sweden to be doing exceedingly well along with Switzerland in terms of improving its global competitiveness. It has once again emphasized the long accepted fact that sound macroeconomic policies along with high standards of education and emphasis on technology and innovation can work wonders for a country in achieving high levels of growth.

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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.

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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:

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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:

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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

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