Economy & Finance

Bank credit to government and state-owned enterprises as a share of GDP compares credit extended by domestic deposit-taking banks to

Adding a country’s exports and imports of goods and services and comparing the total with gross domestic product shows how

Deposit money bank assets to GDP compares the claims held by deposit-taking banks on the domestic real nonfinancial sector with

Private sector credit GDP share compares the amount of credit extended to the private sector with the size of an

Exports as a Share of GDP measures the scale of a country’s goods-and-services exports relative to the size of its

GDP per capita growth tells a different story from either total GDP growth or the level of GDP per person.

Domestic credit to the private sector measures how large financial claims on private-sector borrowers are relative to the size of

How important are agriculture, forestry, and fishing within an economy? World Bank indicator NV.AGR.TOTL.ZS answers that question by expressing the

The Food Production Index is easy to misread as a ranking of how much food countries produce in absolute terms.