Where are we from?

World Perspectives

Australia

Country Expert: Stuart Haigh

GDP per capita: $38,100Unemployment Rate: 4.5%Inflation Rate: 4.7%

Source: all economic data is for the year 2008 and from the CIA World Factbook unless otherwise noted

Belgium

Country Expert: Laurent Blumberg

GDP per capita: $37,500Unemployment Rate: 6.5%Inflation Rate: 4.5%

Brazil

Country Expert: Juliana Rotolo Nascimento

GDP per capita: $10,100Unemployment Rate: 8.0%Inflation Rate: 5.8%

Bulgaria

Country Expert: Georgi Petrov

GDP per capita: $12,900Unemployment Rate: 6.3%Inflation Rate: 7.8%

Cambodia

Country Expert: Chamroeun Sieng

GDP per capita: $2,000Unemployment Rate: 3.5%Inflation Rate: 20.2%

Canada

Country Expert: Andre Ribeiro Da Silva

GDP per capita: $39,300Unemployment Rate: 6.1%Inflation Rate: 1.0%

China

Country Expert: Jin Ji

GDP per capita: $6,000Unemployment Rate: 4-9%Inflation Rate: 6.0%

Denmark

Country Experts: Kristian Andersen, Mads Krarup,Birgitte Egdal, Henrik Gerstrom, Soren Mogensen

GDP per capita: $37,400Unemployment Rate: 2.0%Inflation Rate: 3.5%

Germany

Country Experts: Stefan Lorscheid, Benedikt Bingler, Jan Icken

GDP per capita: $34,800Unemployment Rate: 7.9%Inflation Rate: 2.8%

Greece

Country Expert: Katerina Barka

GDP per capita: $32,000Unemployment Rate: 8.0%Inflation Rate: 4.4%

India

Country Experts: Abhay Jain, Akshay Jain, Mohit Gupta, Abhishek Gupta

GDP per capita: $2,800Unemployment Rate: 6.8%Inflation Rate: 7.8%

Ireland

Country Expert: Concubhar O’Drisceoil

GDP per capita: $46,200Unemployment Rate: 6.2%Inflation Rate: 4.0%

Italy

Country Expert: Sarti Stefano

GDP per capita: $31,000Unemployment Rate: 6.8%Inflation Rate: 3.6%

Lebanon

Country Experts: Alexandra Bustros, Raya Awad

GDP per capita: $11,1000Unemployment Rate: 9.2%Inflation Rate: 10.0%

Lithuania

Country Expert: Adomas Kraunevicius

GDP per capita: $17,700Unemployment Rate: 4.8%Inflation Rate: 11%

Mexico

Country Experts: Rodrigo Robles, Monica Garcia de la Cadena, Mariana Vega Silva

GDP per capita: $14,200Unemployment Rate: 4.1%(Underemployment: 25%)Inflation Rate: 6.2%

Nigeria

Country Expert: Frank Dike

GDP per capita: $2,300Unemployment Rate: 4.9%Inflation Rate: 10.6%

Norway

Country Expert: Audun H. Hansen

GDP per capita: $55,200Unemployment Rate: 2.6%Inflation Rate: 3.6%

Poland

Country Expert: Agnieska Sala

GDP per capita: $17,300Unemployment Rate: 9.7%Inflation Rate: 4.3%

Singapore

Country Expert: Min Shin Ang

GDP per capita: $52,000Unemployment Rate: 2.3%Inflation Rate: 4.3%

Sweden

Country Expert: Marc Burde

GDP per capita: $38,500Unemployment Rate: 6.4%Inflation Rate: 1.6%

Turkey

Country Expert: Ayhan Sebin

GDP per capita: $12,000Unemployment Rate: 7.9%Inflation Rate: 10.2%

United States

Country Experts: Ken Liu, Shariar Monfared, MacKenzie Sigalos, Rima Markarian, Jennifer Grygiel

GDP per capita: $47,000Unemployment Rate: 7.2%Inflation Rate: 4.2%

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