Why wouldn’t it be?
Here is the borrowing or surplus of every country as % of GDP for 2017 (source: International Monetary Fund),
Note: We have excluded the performance of Venezuela and Libya on the map because they are major outliers. They are included in the data set below.
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We have been analysing some numbers from the latest releases from Eurostat (the official statistical office of the European Union), the International Monetary Fund, the Federal Reserve, the European Central Bank, the Bank of England and the Bank of Japan.
We will be posting several findings in the next couple of days. We begin with GDP per capita between 2007 and 2017 for countries which are part of the European Union based on a statistical release from the Eurostat.
Banks in the UK have set aside £42 billion (US $59 billion) to cover Payment Protection Insurance or PPI compensation so far (starting 2011). We will look at how much has this compensation contributed to the GDP. Continue reading “How much has Payment Protection Insurance or PPI compensation contributed to the UK GDP?”