Economic indicators: Key indicators for the EU, Euro-Zone, USA and Japan

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Series Details No.1 February
Publication Date February 1999
ISSN 0264-7362
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Economic indicators:

Key indicators for the EU, Euro-Zone, USA and Japan

GDP (1998 estimates in bn € at market prices)


EU15 7,495
Euro-Zone 5,774
USA 7,592
Japan 3,327

GDP (1998 estimates in PPS per head)


EU15 19,920
Euro-Zone 20,040
USA 30,060
Japan 22,060

Yearly growth in volume as % (97/98 estimate)


EU15 2.8%
Euro-Zone 3.0%
USA 3.3%
Japan -2.5%

Inflation (Annual average rate 96/97)


EU15 1.7%
Euro-Zone 1.6%
USA 2.3%
Japan 1.7%

Trade balance (1997 in bn €)


EU15 49.9
Euro-Zone 89.4
USA -186.1
Japan 72.7

Source: Memo (Eurostat), No.24, 1998 (31.12.98)
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