App. 2-10  Growth Rate of GDP
Source: IMF Database.             (%)
Country or Area Average Annual Real
Growth Rate
1990 2000 2004 2005 2006
1991-2000 2001-2006
 
 World ① 3.3 4.2 2.9 4.8 5.3 4.8 5.4
 Advanced Countries 2.8 2.2 3.1 4.0 3.2 2.5 2.9
   European Union 2.2 2.1 2.3 3.9 2.7 2.0 3.2
     Euro Area 2.1② 1.6 3.8 2.0 1.5 2.8
   Major Advanced Countries 2.5 2.0 2.8 3.6 2.9 2.3 2.6
   Newly Industrialized Asian 6.2 4.3 7.4 7.9 5.9 4.7 5.3
   Other Advanced Economies③  4.5 3.5 4.5 6.0 4.8 3.9 4.4
 Developing Countries 4.2 6.6 2.8 6.0 7.7 7.5 8.1
   Africa 2.3 4.9 2.2 3.2 5.8 5.6 5.6
     Sub-Sahara Africa 2.2 4.9 2.0 3.4 5.9 6.0 5.7
   Central and Eastern Europe 1.7 4.7 -1.2 4.9 6.7 5.6 6.3
   Commonwealth of Independent -4.5 7.0 1.1 9.0 8.4 6.6 7.7
      States and Mongolia
   Developing Asia 7.6 8.2 5.2 7.0 8.8 9.2 9.8
     ASEAN-4④ 4.3 4.8 7.6 5.8 5.9 5.1 5.4
     Middle East 4.0 5.0 8.9 5.4 5.6 5.4 5.6
   Western Hemisphere 3.3 3.2 0.2 3.9 6.0 4.6 5.5
 China 10.4 9.8 3.8 8.4 10.1 10.4 11.1
  (10.4) (9.8) (3.8) (8.4) (10.1) (10.4) (11.1)
 Hong Kong, China 4.5 4.7 4.0 10.0 8.6 7.5 6.9
 Afghanistan 14.5⑤ 8.0 14.0 7.5⑥
 Albania 1.3 5.3 -10.0 7.3 5.9 5.5⑥ 5⑥
 Algeria 1.6 4.7 1.3 2.2 5.2 5.1 3.6
 Angola 1.3 11.7 -3.5 3.0 11.2 20.6 18.6⑥
 Antigua and Barbuda 3.4 5.1 2.3 3.3 5.2 5.5 12.2⑥
 Argentina 4.2 3.0 -1.3 -0.8 9.0 9.2 8.5⑥
 Armenia 2.8⑦ 12.4 6.0 10.5 14.0 13.3
 Australia 3.5 3.1 1.6 3.4 3.7 2.8 2.7
 Austria 2.6 1.7 4.6 3.4 2.3 2.0 3.3
 Azerbaijan -3.5⑦ 14.8 6.2 10.4 24.3 31.0
 Bahamas 2.1 2.0 -1.6 1.9 1.8 2.5 3.4
 Bahrain 4.6 6.3 7.3 5.2 5.6 7.8 7.6
 Bangladesh 4.9 5.7 4.6 5.6 6.1 6.3 6.4
 Barbados 1.0 2.1 -3.3 2.3 4.8 4.1 3.9
 Belarus -0.2⑦ 7.9 5.8 11.4 9.3 9.9
 Belgium 2.3 1.7 3.1 3.9 2.8 1.4 3.0
 Belize 6.0 5.5 11.2 13.0 4.6 3.5 5.8⑥
 Benin 4.5 4.1 9.0 4.9 3.1 2.9 3.8⑥
 Bhutan 5.3 8.2 2.4 7.6 6.8 6.9 11⑥
 Bolivia 3.8 3.3 4.6 2.5 4.2 4.0 4.6
 Bosnia and Herzegovina 17.8⑧ 4.9 5.2 6.1 5.0 6.0
 Botswana 6.2 4.9 6.8 8.3 6.3 3.8 2.6
 Brazil 2.5 2.9 -4.2 4.3 5.7 2.9 3.7
 Brunei Darussalam 2.2 2.6 1.1 2.9 0.5 0.4 5.1
 Bulgaria -4.0 5.4 -9.1 5.4 6.6 6.2 6.1
 Burkina Faso 5.3 6.1 -0.6 1.8 4.6⑥ 7.1⑥ 5.9⑥
 Burundi -1.7 2.7 3.5 -0.9⑥ 4.8⑥ 0.9⑥ 5.1⑥
 Cambodia 7.0 9.6 1.1 8.8 10.3 13.3 10.8
 Cameroon 1.4 3.7 -6.2 4.2 3.7 2.0 3.8⑥
 Canada 2.9 2.6 0.2 5.2 3.1 3.1 2.8