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The World Economy: Historical Statistics is a landmark book by Angus Maddison. Published in 2004 by the OECD Development Centre , it studies the growth of populations and economies across the centuries: not just the world economy as it is now, but how it was in the past.
The platform also features up-to-date trade data at Subnational Geography, Continents, Countries, Provinces, Ports of Entry, and departments levels for numerous countries. This data, sourced from national agencies responsible for customs data collection, is available for over 25 countries, which collectively represent 85% of global trade.
In 2007 the OECD published Human Capital: How what you know shapes your life, the first book in the OECD Insights series. This series uses OECD analysis and data to introduce important social and economic issues to non-specialist readers. Other books in the series cover sustainable development, international trade and international migration.
OECD Main Economic Indicators, often simply called Main Economic Indicators and abbreviated MEI, is a monthly publication by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) of economic indicators worldwide (with a focus on OECD countries). According to the official website, it "presents comparative statistics that provide an ...
Since the trade balance (exports minus imports) is generally the biggest determinant of the current account surplus or deficit, the current account balance often displays a cyclical trend. During a strong economic expansion, import volumes typically surge; if exports are unable to grow at the same rate, the current account deficit will widen.
This list of countries by largest GDP shows how the membership and rankings of the world's ten largest economies as measured by their gross domestic product has changed. . While the United States has consistently had the world's largest economy for some time, in the last fifty years the world has seen both rises and falls in relative terms of the economies of other count
Purchasing power parities updated by Organisation of Cooperation and Development (OECD) from OECD data; Explanations from the U. of British Columbia Archived 2019-08-11 at the Wayback Machine (also provides daily updated PPP charts) Purchasing power parities as example of international statistical cooperation from Eurostat – Statistics Explained
Different sources of trade data may provide more or less complete data coverage, and more or less detail: reported vs. mirrored: One key distinction in trade data is between the reporting country (the country that provides data) and the partner country (the country listed as an export partner or import partner in the data provided by a reporting country).