Economic projections methodology
| GLOBAL ECONOMIC PROJECTIONS | ||||||||
| Rank | Average performance | Economic performance | Expected change | GNP growth (%) | ||||
| Sept | Mar | 2000-2001 | 2000 | 2001 | 2000-2001 | 2000 | 2001 | |
| 1 | 5 | Luxembourg | 79.21 | 79.57 | 78.86 | -0.7 | 3.1 | 3.4 |
| 2 | 1 | Ireland | 78.43 | 77.68 | 79.18 | 1.5 | 6.6 | 6.5 |
| 3 | 6 | Australia | 75.65 | 75.57 | 75.73 | 0.2 | 3.1 | 3.1 |
| 4 | 7 | United States | 74.73 | 74.51 | 74.94 | 0.4 | 2.5 | 2.5 |
| 5 | 3 | Finland | 74.16 | 72.89 | 75.43 | 2.5 | 3.3 | 3.3 |
| 6 | 4 | Canada | 73.42 | 72.79 | 74.05 | 1.3 | 2.8 | 2.8 |
| 7 | 13 | Germany | 72.52 | 72.41 | 72.64 | 0.2 | 2.5 | 2.6 |
| 8 | 21 | United Kingdom | 72.32 | 71.70 | 72.95 | 1.3 | 2.2 | 2.5 |
| 9 | 9 | Sweden | 72.24 | 71.91 | 72.57 | 0.7 | 2.9 | 2.9 |
| 10 | 31 | Singapore | 72.01 | 71.37 | 72.64 | 1.3 | 4.3 | 4.8 |
| 11 | 2 | Netherlands | 71.67 | 71.36 | 71.97 | 0.6 | 2.6 | 2.7 |
| 12 | 15 | Spain | 71.24 | 71.29 | 71.18 | -0.1 | 3.3 | 3.2 |
| 13 | 22 | Taiwan | 71.21 | 70.54 | 71.88 | 1.3 | 5.2 | 5.1 |
| 14 | 16 | Austria | 70.44 | 70.49 | 70.38 | |||