Global Economic Projections

Rank			Economic performance average 1997-1998	Economic performance		Expected change (%)	GNP growth
Mar 97	Sept 96			1997	1998		1997	1998
1	1	Luxembourg	86.86	86.22	87.5	1.48	2.98	3.1
2	2	Singapore	83.77	84.04	83.5	-0.65	6.99	7.25
3	11	Denmark	81.53	81.78	81.28	-0.61	2.86	2.79
4	27	Malta	80.8	81.6	80	-1.96	6	5.5
5	13	Ireland	80.05	79.64	80.46	1.02	5.73	6.21
6	4	US	79.6	82.72	76.48	-7.54	2.48	2.11
7	8	Taiwan	79.54	78.64	80.44	2.29	5.85	5.95
8	3	Norway	79.22	79.78	78.66	-1.39	3.17	2.48
9	19	Canada	78.81	79.21	78.4	-1.02	3.23	2.99
10=	10	Finland	78.6	78.79	78.41	-0.48	3.26	3.28
10=	6	Netherlands	78.6	78.32	78.88	0.71	2.76	2.82
12	9	UK	77.43	78.72	76.14	-3.28	3.15	2.8
13	83	Mauritius	76.63	74.25	79	6.4	4.5	–
14	20	Malaysia	76.36	75.98	76.74	1	7.98	7.94
15	7	Australia	76.23	75.01	77.46	3.26	3.27	3.23
16	34	Cyprus	75.78	77.07	74.5	-3.33	4.33	5
17	17	New Zealand	75.66	74.09	77.23	4.24	2.66	3.03
18	12	South Korea	75.37	73.89	76.86	4.02	6.37	6.58
19	21	Hong Kong	74.17	75.23	73.12	-2.8	4.92	5.31
20	15	Germany	73.73	71.43	76.03	6.43	2.2	2.65
21	16	Austria	72.77	72.1	73.44	1.86	1.62	2.15
22	14	Belgium	72.5	71.69	73.31	2.27	2.3	2.6
23	23	Sweden	71.66	70.95	72.36	1.99	2.25	2.4
24	31	Iceland	71.09	71.12	71.06	-0.08	3.12	2.86
25	26	Czech Republic	70.92	70.49	71.36	1.23	4.9	5.26
26	28	Spain	70.62	68.39	72.85	6.51	2.68	2.82
27	46	United Arab Emirates	70.5	70.5	70.5	0	2.38	2.38
28	29	Chile	70.26	69.31	71.2	2.73	5.66	6.31
29	18	France	70.15	67.91	72.39	6.6	2.12	2.53
30	52	Uruguay	69.83	63.15	76.5	21.14	2.5	3
31	33	Portugal	69.72	69.31	70.13	1.19	2.78	2.97
32	24	Thailand	69.22	68.17	70.28	3.08	6.77	7.1
33	5	Switzerland	68.97	66.76	71.18	6.62	0.91	1.89
34	38	Qatar	68.41	67.22	69.6	3.54	3	3.25
35	35	Poland	67.21	66.39	68.04	2.48	5.14	5.14
36	22	Japan	67.06	64.81	69.31	6.95	1.73	2.46
37	36	Slovenia	67.05	66.17	67.94	2.68	3.49	3.94
38	32	China	66.62	66.95	66.29	-0.99	9.78	9.61
39	66	Botswana	66.38	67	65.75	-1.87	5.75	5.5
40	39	Indonesia	66.14	65.43	66.84	2.15	7.29	7.1
41	65	Namibia	65.58	65.6	65.55	-0.08	4	4.5
42	87	Costa Rica	64.8	63.2	66.4	5.06	1.6	–
43	54	Oman	64.68	64.65	64.7	0.08	4.75	5.17
44	40	Hungary	64.54	62.58	66.5	6.27	2.45	3.58
45	30	Italy	64.53	62.55	66.5	6.31	1.28	2.19
46	43	Israel	62.85	60.77	64.93	6.85	3.93	4.9
47	41	Philippines	62.61	62.72	62.5	-0.35	5.93	6.21
48	47	Saudi Arabia	61.37	61.44	61.3	-0.23	1.92	1.7
49	42	Kuwait	60.91	60.82	61	0.3	1.93	1.38
50	45	Slovak Republic	60.71	60.48	60.94	0.76	5.29	5
51	51	South Africa	60.46	58.95	61.97	5.13	2.62	3.51
52	44	Bahrain	59.61	59.52	59.7	0.3	2.18	1.88
53	53	Argentina	59.11	57.98	60.23	3.89	4.1	4.09
54	49	Mexico	58.29	57.55	59.02	2.56	4.32	4.4
55	50	India	57.83	56.75	58.91	3.81	6	6.16
56	59	Tunisia	56.59	56.58	56.6	0.03	4.79	4.6
57	80	Jordan	56.5	54.38	58.63	7.83	4.23	3.6
58	58	Panama	55.58	54.07	57.1	5.61	3.45	3.7
59	57	Vietnam	55.37	54.59	56.16	2.88	8.83	8.83
60	60	Brazil	55.03	53.65	56.41	5.15	3.85	4.39
61	61	Estonia	54.66	53.91	55.4	2.76	3.98	4.44
62	76	Egypt	54.33	55.27	53.4	-3.38	4.7	5
63	69	Croatia	54.29	53.2	55.38	4.1	4.75	4.67
64	55	Greece	53.46	52.69	54.23	2.93	2.63	2.91
65	107	Gabon	53.45	48.7	58.2	19.51	4	–
66	128	Jamaica	53.13	52.05	54.2	4.13	1	–
67	56	Colombia	51.75	50.34	53.16	5.6	3.88	4.43
68	64	Morocco	51.23	51.19	51.27	0.16	5.07	5
69	113	Papua New Guinea	50.55	50.55	50.55	0	3	3
70	96	Sri Lanka	50.05	48.8	51.3	5.12	4.4	5
71	78	Lebanon	49.7	48.9	50.5	3.27	5.1	5.68
72	72	Venezuela	48.93	48.52	49.33	1.68	3.33	3.91
73	63	Peru	47.87	46.15	49.59	7.44	3.92	5.07
74	68	Latvia	47.55	46.34	48.75	5.19	2.83	3.63
75	67	Lithuania	45.88	45.34	46.43	2.41	3.74	4.04
76	77	Bolivia	45.73	46.57	44.9	-3.58	5	–
77	62	Turkey	45.03	44.03	46.03	4.55	4.5	4.38
78	70	Romania	44.79	43.14	46.44	7.63	3.53	3.89
79	89	Zimbabwe	44.46	43.37	45.55	5.03	4.67	4
80	90	Ghana	44.28	44.53	44.03	-1.1	4.88	4.67
81	73	Ecuador	43.63	41.55	45.7	9.99	3.07	3.85
82	112	Senegal	43.6	42.4	44.8	5.66	4.5	–
83	122	Central African Rep.	43.4	42.3	44.5	5.2	4	–
84	129	Syria	42.96	42.35	43.58	2.89	4.38	4.13
85	92	Myanmar	42.63	42.05	43.2	2.73	5.33	5.33
86	93	Iran	42.6	41.5	43.7	5.3	2.56	2.77
87	74	Pakistan	42.26	42.78	41.75	-2.4	4.98	5.38
88	130	Kazakhstan	41.54	40.28	42.8	6.27	1.17	2.67
89	79	Russia	40.95	40.28	41.63	3.34	0.61	2.96
90	100	FYR Macedonia	40.03	39.07	41	4.95	4.5	4.5
91	139	Laos	39.63	38.8	40.47	4.3	7	7
92=	146	Burkina Faso	39.3	41.1	37.5	-8.76	3	–
92=	111	Côte d’Ivoire	39.3	39.2	39.4	0.51	5.63	5.25
94	102	Libya	39.13	39.17	39.1	-0.17	2	3
95	121	Bangladesh	39.08	38.1	40.07	5.16	5.17	4.77
96	144	Benin	38.68	39.8	37.55	-5.65	6.5	4
97	98	Kenya	37.43	37.05	37.8	2.02	3.5	4.15
98	131	Guinea	37.1	37.1	37.1	0	4	4
99	162	Uzbekistan	36.03	36.03	36.03	0	-0.75	2.5
100	104	Moldova	35.92	35.87	35.97	0.28	2.5	2.75
101	142	Niger	35.65	32.1	39.2	22.12	3	–
102	99	Algeria	35.4	35.38	35.43	0.12	4	4
103	135	Cameroon	35.38	30.25	40.5	33.88	3.5	–
104	156	Congo	34.33	29.35	39.3	33.9	3	–
105	124	Georgia	33.73	33.73	33.73	0	5.5	6.5
106	147	Mongolia	33.3	33.25	33.35	0.3	1	1
107	119	Armenia	33.15	32.23	34.07	5.69	5.25	5
108	134	Turkmenistan	32.7	31.87	33.53	5.23	-3.5	0.75
109	138	Cambodia	32.5	32.5	32.5	0	6.25	6
110	108	Togo	32.03	31.05	33	6.28	3	5
111	82	Bulgaria	31.73	30.95	32.5	5.01	-2.33	1.07
112	123	Ukraine	30.69	30.48	30.9	1.39	-1.94	0.86
113	120	Nepal	30.48	29.2	31.75	8.73	5	5.5
114	149	Chad	29.95	31.6	28.3	-10.44	3	–
115	151	Yemen	29.64	29.03	30.25	4.22	2.17	2.67
116	116	Azerbaijan	29.5	29.5	29.5	0	5	4.5
117	117	Mali	28.9	28.07	29.73	5.94	5	5.5
118	–	Kyrgyzstan	28.13	28.13	28.13	0	3.25	3
119	145	Madagascar	28.08	28.65	27.5	-4.01	4	–
120	125	Malawi	27.78	27.75	27.8	0.18	3	3
121	158	Angola	25.58	25.35	25.8	1.78	6	6
122	133	Nigeria	25.04	24.75	25.33	2.36	3.38	3.83
123	127	Iraq	24.56	23.62	25.5	7.96	7.3	5.4
124	–	Yugoslavia	24.55	23.6	25.5	8.05	-0.5	1
125	140	Zambia	23.85	23.85	23.85	0	2	2.5
126	136	Belarus	21.74	21.83	21.65	-0.8	-2.67	-0.83
127	110	Albania	21.28	21.4	21.17	-1.09	5.5	4.75
128	–	Afghanistan	19.7	20.35	19.05	-6.39	–	–
129	–	Tajikistan	15.15	15.15	15.15	0	1.25	-7
130	148	Zaire	14.75	14.75	14.75	0	–	–
131	164	North Korea	12.05	12.1	12	-0.83	2	3.4