Description: |
Produced by The Economist Intelligence Unit (EUI), publishers of The Economist, this service is an analytical database of worldwide economic indicators and forecasts. EIU CountryData gives you access to 317 series on 150 countries and 45 regional aggregates, running from 1980 and forecasting out five years. Example data types for each country include:Economic structure - National accounts: nominal and real GDP in local currency and US$ (private consumption, fixed investment);
- Sectoral breakdown of output (industrial output, service-sector output)
- Energy indicators (petroleum production);
- Fiscal policy indicators (government budget balance, government debt stock);
- Money supply;
- Prices and exchange rates (consumer price inflation, average and end-period exchange rates to US$);
- Population and incomes (GDP per head, private consumption per head.)
Quarterly indicators - Exchange rates (to US$);
- Indicators of economic activity (GDP growth, consumer price inflation);
- Energy indicators (petroleum production);
- External trade (value of exports and imports);
- Current-account balance;
- International reserves (gold, foreign-exchange reserves);
- Financial indicators (external bank loans, bond issues);
- Secondary market debt prices (bid and offer);
- Financial market indicators (stock market index);
Foreign payments - Current account (trade balance, service credits);
- Current-account ratios (current account, trade balance as a share of GDP);
- Financing (portfolio investment flows, medium- and long-term borrowing);
- International reserves (gold, foreign-exchange reserves).
External debt stock - Foreign debt stock (private medium- and long-term debt, IMF debt, short-term debt);
- Debt ratios (debt per head, debt to exports), net debt (debt less reserves);
- Medium- and long-term debt (owed to official creditors, private creditors);
- Debt owed to BIS banks (disaggregated by maturity).
External debt service - Foreign debt service (debt service by private creditors, interest payments on short-term debt)
- Debt-service ratios (debt service as a share of export revenues);
- Principal repayments (to official and private creditors, to the IMF);
- Interest payments (interest paid, interest due);
- Interest payments ratios (interest paid as a share of interest due, as a share of export revenues).
External trade - Goods: exports fob (value of exports, split by commodity);
- Goods: imports cif (value of exports, split by commodity);
- Trade volumes and prices (change in quantity of exports and imports, change in export and import prices measured in US$)
- Trends in foreign trade.
Trends in foreign trade - Main destinations of exports (share of exports going to each of the top four export markets);
- Main origins of imports (share of imports coming from each of the top four import suppliers);
- Principal exports (each of the four most important export commodities as a share of total exports);
- Principal imports (each of the four most important import commodities as a share of total imports).
Using CountryDataYou can access a range of forecasts and graph trends from 1980 - 2003, or manipulate data into your own reports, spreadsheets and presentations.
|
