Gross Domestic Investment (GDI) in 2009 was 15.8% vs. 20.0% in 1966.
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Investment in new factories and equipment represented 40% of gross domestic private investment in 2006.
By contrast, gross domestic private investment has shrunk from 17.3% of GDP at the start of the recession to 11.3% last year.
The gross private domestic investment sector is historically very volatile.
Gross private domestic investment increased an anemic 0.5 percent.
The U.S. and Europe already account for nearly half of the world's gross domestic product, and trade and investment already supports more than 13 million U.S. and European jobs.
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Gross domestic product has four constituents: consumption, investment, government spending and net exports.
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Total investment as a share of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is the lowest it has been since those records began in 1965.
The rising numbers have helped housing become a bright spot in recent economic reports, with analysts projecting that residential investment will positively contribute to gross domestic product this year for the first time since 2005.
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The NIC suggests that by 2030, Asia will have more "overall power" than the US and Europe combined - taking into account population size, gross domestic product (GDP), military spending and investment in technology.
Today, investment accounts for an astounding half of gross domestic product, perhaps more.
And Fannie Mae economists estimate that residential investment in 2012 will positively contribute to gross domestic product for the first time since 2005.
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Property investment accounts for 8% of the gross domestic product, a large chunk of the world's No. 2 economy, estimates Standard Chartered economist Stephen Green.
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U., based on the ratio of overall VC investment as a percentage of each country's gross domestic product.
He reiterated the government will stick to its fiscal correction roadmap--of reducing the fiscal deficit to 3% of gross domestic product by March 2017--and that it was also reviewing its foreign direct investment policy to attract more overseas investors.
Infrastructure investment, for example, is expected to grow from 8 percent to 10 percent of gross domestic product by 2017.
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