| Investment | Data are based on individual countries' national accounts statistics. For many countries, the estimates of national saving are built up from national accounts data on gross domestic investment and from balance of payments-based data on net foreign investment |
| Gross national savings | Data are based on individual countries' national accounts statistics. For many countries, the estimates of national saving are built up from national accounts data on gross domestic investment and from balance of payments-based data on net foreign investment |
| Inflation, average consumer prices | Data for inflation are averages for the year, not end-of-period data. The index is based on 2000=100. |
| Inflation, average consumer prices | Data for inflation are averages for the year, not end-of-period data. |
| Inflation, end of period consumer prices | Data for inflation are end of the period, not annual average data. The index is based on 2000=100. |
| Inflation, end of period consumer prices | Data for inflation are end of the period, not annual average data. |
| Six-month London interbank offered rate (LIBOR) |
| Unemployment rate | |
| Employment | |
| Population | |
| General government balance | Data are on a national income accounts basis. Please refer to Box A1 in the World Economic Outlook for a summary of the policy assumptions underlying the projections. |
| General government balance | Data are on a national income accounts basis. Please refer to Box A1 in the World Economic Outlook for a summary of the policy assumptions underlying the projections. |
| General government structural balance | The structural budget balance, or cyclically adjusted budget balance, is derived from a cyclically neutral budget model. [How to Measure the Fiscal Deficit?, Blejer and Cheasty, IMF, 1993, page 86-88]. This refers to the deficit or surplus which would prevail if the economy were at a ?normal? level. [?A Review of the Fiscal Impulse Measure,? Heller, Haas, and Mansur, IMF Occasional Paper, May 1986, page 36] |
| General government structural balance | The structural budget balance, or cyclically adjusted budget balance, is derived from a cyclically neutral budget model. [How to Measure the Fiscal Deficit?, Blejer and Cheasty, IMF, 1993, page 86-88]. This refers to the deficit or surplus which would prevail if the economy were at a ?normal? level. [?A Review of the Fiscal Impulse Measure,? Heller, Haas, and Mansur, IMF Occasional Paper, May 1986, page 36] |
| General government net debt | General government net debt refers to gross debt of the general government minus its financial assets in the form of debt instruments. Examples of financial assets in the form of debt instruments are government?s investment in other entities? debt securities (such as bills and bonds), loans extended by government, and other accounts receivable. |
| General government net debt | General government net debt refers to gross debt of the general government minus its financial assets in the form of debt instruments. Examples of financial assets in the form of debt instruments are government?s investment in other entities? debt securities (such as bills and bonds), loans extended by government, and other accounts receivable. |
| General government gross debt | General government gross debt refers to recognized financial liabilities of the general government that are serviced through interest and/or principal payments. Examples are debt securities issued (such as bills and bonds), loans obtained, and other accounts payable. Guaranteed debt is excluded from government gross debt until called. |
| General government gross debt | General government gross debt refers to recognized financial liabilities of the general government that are serviced through interest and/or principal payments. Examples are debt securities issued (such as bills and bonds), loans obtained, and other accounts payable. Guaranteed debt is excluded from government gross debt until called. |
| Current account balance | Current account is all transactions other than those in financial and capital items. The major classifications are goods and services, income and current transfers. The focus of the BOP is on transactions (between an economy and the rest of the world) in goods, services, and income. |
| Current account balance | Current account is all transactions other than those in financial and capital items. The major classifications are goods and services, income and current transfers. The focus of the BOP is on transactions (between an economy and the rest of the world) in goods, services, and income. |