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Country Complexity Rankings [1] Rank Country Economic complexity index (2018) Change in 5 years (2013-18) Change in 10 years (2008-18) 1 Japan: 2.43 2 Switzerland: 2.17 1 1 3 Republic of Korea: 2.11 4 8 4 Germany: 2.09 2 2 5 Singapore: 1.85 1 6 Austria: 1.81 2 1 7 Czech Republic: 1.80 1 2 8 Sweden: 1.70 3 9 Hungary: 1.66 5 10 Slovenia: 1.62 3 3 11
The table initially ranks each IMF member including sovereign states not part of the IMF, non-sovereign nations and territories, and countries with limited recognition The links in the "Country/Territory" row of the following table link to the article on the GDP or the economy of the respective country or territory.
Middle Eastern economic development has been fueled by laborers from South Asian countries, and several European countries have had formal guest-worker programs in place for years. [3] The United Nations estimated that more than 175 million people, roughly 3 percent of the world’s population, live in a country other than where they were born. [4]
Historical economic geography examines the history and development of spatial economic structure. Using historical data, it examines how centers of population and economic activity shift, what patterns of regional specialization and localization evolve over time and what factors explain these changes.
Nominal GDP sector composition, 2015 (in millions of 2005 USD): [5] [6] 2005 prices are used similarly to 2010 constant prices in which they provide economic statistics where inflation is accounted for.
An economic system, or economic order, [1] is a system of production, resource allocation and distribution of goods and services within a society. It includes the combination of the various institutions, agencies, entities, decision-making processes, and patterns of consumption that comprise the economic structure of a given community.
In political philosophy, the means of production refers to the generally necessary assets and resources that enable a society to engage in production. [1] While the exact resources encompassed in the term may vary, it is widely agreed to include the classical factors of production (land, labour, and capital) as well as the general infrastructure and capital goods necessary to reproduce stable ...
A given economy is a set of processes that involves its culture, values, education, technological evolution, history, social organization, political structure, legal systems, and natural resources as main factors. These factors give context, content, and set the conditions and parameters in which an economy functions.