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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 world economy or global economy is the economy of all humans in the world, referring to the global economic system, which includes all economic activities conducted both within and between nations, including production, consumption, economic management, work in general, financial transactions and trade of goods and services.
[7] [8] Since China's transition to a socialist market economy through controlled privatisation and deregulation, [9] [10] the country has seen its ranking increase from ninth in 1978, to second in 2010; China's economic growth accelerated during this period and its share of global nominal GDP surged from 2% in 1980 to 18% in 2021.
Regional economic geography examines the economic conditions of particular regions or countries of the world. It deals with economic regionalization as well as local economic development. Historical economic geography examines the history and development of spatial economic structure. Using historical data, it examines how centers of population ...
Those theories have sometimes been taken to mean that trade between an industrialised country and a developing country would lower the wages of the unskilled in the industrialised country. (But, as noted below, that conclusion depends upon the unlikely assumption that productivity is the same in the two countries).
Source: World Development Indicators: Contribution of natural resources to gross domestic product (2011, source is unavailable) Total natural resources rents (% of GDP) by country, 2013 Oil rents (% of GDP) by country, 2013
Mansell and Wehn state that economic development has been understood by non-practitioners since the World War II to involve economic growth, namely the increases in per capita income, and (if currently absent) the attainment of a standard of living equivalent to that of industrialized countries. [6] [7] Economic development can also be ...
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.