IMF, churns sums equivalent to 2-5% of gross world product every year.
Their contribution to world gross domestic product growth is expected to become larger than in the past, as structural deleveraging in the developed world will likely persist throughout 2013.
The 2006-2007 edition covers 125 countries and encompasses 98% of world gross domestic product.
By 2013, emerging markets will dominate world gross domestic product, according to the IMF.
The US accounts for more than 22% of world gross domestic product.
Unfortunately, once you sort through how much more China can actually spend in the near term, and take into account that--at market exchange rates--China's economy is only around 6% of world gross domestic product, the effect on global growth will be small.
The group also accounts for a quarter of the world's gross domestic product (GDP) in terms of purchasing power parity.
The IMF has said countries should be prepared to spend up to 2% of the world's gross domestic product in their plans to boost economic growth.
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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He said the total value of derivatives in the world exceeds total global gross domestic product by a factor of 10, according to the Bloomberg report.
"Fifty percent of the gross domestic product in the developed world comes from small and medium-sized businesses, but in the developing world it's just 25%, " Shah notes.
To put that into context - it is more than a quarter of the total GDP (gross domestic product) for the whole world - about the size of the US and Japanese economies combined.
Some years back, the U.N. welcomed the new millennium with a proposal that wealthy nations start turning over 0.7% of their gross national product for aid to the developing world.
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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Switzerland never adopted the euro, was on the gold standard until a decade ago and carries one of the world's lowest ratios of government debt to gross domestic product (44%).
That's roughly equivalent to the gross domestic product of Australia, the 14th richest country in the world.
America, as Obama continuously reminds us, spends 16% of its gross domestic product on health care--the highest percentage in the world.
World War II produced the biggest deficits as a percentage of gross domestic product in U.S. history -- and an end to the Depression.
We are still by far the largest economy in the world and this amount is less than 65% of our gross domestic product (GDP).
The bank's collapse and subsequent bailout represents more than 5 percent of Afghanistan's gross domestic product, making it one of the largest banking failures in the world.
The island nation uses 4, 500 BTUs per U.S. dollar of gross domestic product, a measure known as "energy intensity, " the world standard for measuring how efficient an economy is at using energy.
While the U.S. and Europe teeter on the brink of recession, China's gross domestic product will increase by 7% to 8% this year--among the world's best, economists say.
Just a year ago, India was an investor darling, accustomed to near double-digit gross domestic product growth and talk of rivalry with China to be the fastest-growing big economy in the world.
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