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In 2024, Canada ranked fourth in the world in U.S. News & World Report's Best Countries rankings, with an overall indexed score of 94.1 out of 100: Canada's strong ranking was due to its performance in several categories. [2] Canada has been ranked in the top five countries by U.S. News for the past four years.
GDP (PPP) means gross domestic product based on purchasing power parity.This article includes a list of countries by their forecast estimated GDP (PPP). [2] Countries are sorted by GDP (PPP) forecast estimates from financial and statistical institutions that calculate using market or government official exchange rates.
[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.
The eight major pass-through economies—the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Hong Kong SAR, the British Virgin Islands, Bermuda, the Cayman Islands, Ireland, and Singapore—host more than 85 percent of the world’s investment in special purpose entities, which are often set up for tax reasons.
These figures have been taken from the International Monetary Fund's World Economic Outlook (WEO) Database, October 2024 Edition. [1] The figures are given or expressed in Millions of International Dollars at current prices.
The economy of Canada is a highly developed mixed economy, [33] [34] [35] the world's ninth-largest as of 2024, and a nominal GDP of approximately US$2.117 trillion. [6] Canada is one of the world's largest trading nations, with a highly globalized economy. [36] In 2021, Canadian trade in goods and services reached $2.016 trillion. [37]
The World Competitiveness Yearbook is an annual report published by the Swiss-based International Institute for Management Development (IMD) on the competitiveness of nations and has been published since 1989. [1] The yearbook benchmarks the performance of 63 countries based on 340 criteria measuring different facets of competitiveness.
GDP per hour worked 1970–2022 (2015=100) Country 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010 2015 2020 2022 Australia 51.4 60.3 66.0 80.9 92.2 100 103.1 103.3 Austria 83.0