Share of World GDP Per Continent (1990-2010)

In the twenty years before 2010 China gained a lot of GDP. Since its GDP growth was a lot higher than in Europe and the United States it also gained in its share of World GDP. That is China's economy got bigger compared to Europe, United States and Japan. This is shown in the graph.

Conservable Economist

Labor As a Share of Total Income; Decling Trend in the U.S.

This graph shows the share of labor income in the United States as a share of total income. There are two sources of data for the labor income, the NIPA data and the BLS data. As you can see both data have been declining structurally since the beginning of the 2000's. Will this trend continue?

Lukas Daalder

Economist Poll of Forecasters (July 2012) for 2012, 2013

This graph shows the average forecast for economic data (2012 & 2013) of the main economies in the world. Except for Australia and Japan all the average real GDP growth figures in July have been lowered since June. Italy, the Netherlands, Spain and the Euro Area are expected to have a minus growth for 2012. For 2013 only Italy and Spain are expected to see it's economy contract. Italy's inflation rate is expected to stay relatively high though, while Japan and Switzerland keep having low inflation rates. Spain is expected to see it's current account deficit shrink more and more.

Due to a request by the Economist this graph has been removed. 

View the graph here

EU Regions: GDP Per Capita

Following on my previous post here I show the GDP per capita (2008). First per country as you can see in the next table. Germany, France and the U.K. are not in the top, while they have the highest number of inhabitants. Norway, Switzerland and Denmark are the top three (besides Luxembourg). Bulgaria, Romania and Poland have the lowest GDP per capita.

In the next graph you can see the GDP per capita on the regional level. Again England, the Netherlands, West-Germany, Switzerland and North Italy stand out.

Eurostat

Leading Indicator Index (Beginning 2012)

EconompicData make a nice graph with data from the OECD. It shows the leading indicator index. This index is a total of all the economic data for a country which are identified as the best indicators for future economic growth. Examples of such indicators are industrial production, trade volumes and private consumption.

Especially Italy and Germany (which may be surprising) saw the leading indicator drop the most. The United States and Japan are more and more going in the positive direction.

Econompic

Size Of The Financial Markets

In 2010 world Gross domestic product was 63 trillion dollars. The financial industry is many times bigger than the value of all goods and services produced in the world. Shares and bonds are about the same value of world GDP, but derivatives trading and foreign currency transactions are ten and fifteen times bigger than world gdp.

Der Spiegel

Components Of US Real GDP Since 2007

This chart from Business Insider shows the components of the change in quarterly real GDP for the United States since 2007. In the last quarter personal consumption has stalled dramatically.

Business Insider

Recovery Real GDP Per Person Since Beginning Of Crisis

In this picture you can see the recovery of the economies in selected countries since the beginning of the crisis in 2008. GDP per person is a better measure than GDP because population growth rates differ per country.

The Economist

Downward Revision United States Economy

The Bureau of Economic Analysis published its new estimates of the growth of the United States Economy. Although the revision for 2010 was positive, you can see in the graph that the revisions in total are negative.

• For 2008 previously published was no growth nor decline, new estimates show a 0,3 percent decline. 
• For 2009 previous estimate showed a decline of 2,6 percent, now revised to a decline of 3,5 percent.
• For 2010 the growth was thought to be 2,9 percent, now it is said to be 3 percent.

The Economist

United States National Debt + Liabilities: 351% of GDP as of 2010

Besides the current outstanding national debt, the United States has a lot of liabilities. 

This table by Economy Watch with figures from the United States 2010 financial report (page 21) gives the total United States debt and liabilities. 

Economy Watch

With the table I constructed this chart with the (total) debt and liabilities as a percentage of 2010 GDP.

Shadow Economy As A Percentage Of GDP

The Financial Times made this chart with the shadow economy as a percentage of GDP for the developed countries. You can see that the shadow economy is relatively the biggest in Bulgaria en the smallest in the United States.

Source: Financial Times

EU Real GDP By Contributions By Member States

The European Commission published its European Economic Forecast - spring 2011, from which I will post several graphs today. For
ecast - spring 2011
Contribution by Member States of the European Union to Real GDP Growth of the EU.

European Commission

Contribution Of Internet To GDP in 2009

This graph shows the contribution of the internet sector to the economy of selected countries in 2009, as a percentage of GDP.

Source: Tijd

Where VK = United Kingdom, Zweden = Sweden, Denemarken = Denmark, Nederland = Netherlands and Belgie = Belgim

IMF WEO Spring 2011: Europe: Average Projected Real GDP Growth

Europe: Average Projected Real GDP Growth during 2011–12 (Percent)

http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/weo/2011/01/c2/fig2_5.pdf

IMF WEO Spring 2011: Global Average Real World GDP in 2011 and 2012

The IMF published today it's World Economic Outlook Spring 2011. The next posts will be graphs from the paper.

Global Average Real World GDP in 2011 and 2012

http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/weo/2011/01/c2/fig2_1.pdf