Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of the World - statistics and charts as map, diagram and table

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This page reports the gross domestic product (GDP) or value of all final goods and services produced within a nation in a given year. The given GDP values are based on purchasing power parity (PPP), i.e. all goods and services produced in a country are valued at prices prevailing in the USA. This is the measure most economists prefer when looking at per-capita welfare and when comparing living conditions or use of resources across countries. The measure is difficult to compute, as a US dollar value has to be assigned to all goods and services in the country regardless of whether these goods and services have a direct equivalent in the United States; as a result, PPP estimates for some countries are based on a small and sometimes different set of goods and services. In addition, many countries do not formally participate in the World Bank's PPP project that calculates these measures, so the resulting GDP estimates for these countries may lack precision. For many developing countries, PPP-based GDP measures are multiples of the official exchange rate (OER) measure. The difference between the OER- and PPP-denominated GDP values for most of the weathly industrialized countries are generally much smaller.

Source: CIA World Factbook (2010-07-29)

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