Where are we from?
World Perspectives
Australia
Country Expert: James Freckleton
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
Austria
Country Expert: Angela Pernsteiner, Petra Steger
GDP per capita: $39,200Unemployment Rate: 3.7%Inflation Rate: 3.7%
Bolivia
Country Expert: Carol Reyes
GDP per capita: $4,500Unemployment Rate: 7.5%Inflation Rate: 11.5%
Brazil
Country Expert: Carolina Camargo, Andre Ukon, Natalia Santo
GDP per capita: $10,100Unemployment Rate: 8.0%Inflation Rate: 5.8%
Canada
Country Expert: Nina Wagner
GDP per capita: $39,300Unemployment Rate: 6.1%Inflation Rate: 1.0%
China
Country Expert: Zhu Jin, Zilin Guan, Zhao Xuan
GDP per capita: $6,000Unemployment Rate: 4-9%Inflation Rate: 6.0%
Germany
Country Experts: Seyhan Aschenbrenner, Samuel Turnwald, Florian Wieder
GDP per capita: $34,800Unemployment Rate: 7.9%Inflation Rate: 2.8%
India
Country Experts: Hitesh Uttamchandani, Deepika Choudhary, Nikhil Sharma, Sweta Joshia, David Inbarajan
GDP per capita: $2,800Unemployment Rate: 6.8%Inflation Rate: 7.8%
Lebanon
Country Experts: Daniel Tueni
GDP per capita: $11,1000Unemployment Rate: 9.2%Inflation Rate: 10.0%
Philippines
Country Experts: Fernando Trinidad, Judy Chua
GDP per capita: $3,300Unemployment Rate: 7.4%Inflation Rate: 9.3%
Portugal
GDP per capita: $22,000Unemployment Rate: 7.6%Inflation Rate: 2.9%
Country Experts: Maria Joao Montenegro
Russia
Country Expert: Elena Ponomareva
GDP per capita: $15,800Unemployment Rate: 6.2%Inflation Rate: 13.9%
Singapore
Country Expert: Nethra Murali
GDP per capita: $52,000Unemployment Rate: 2.3%Inflation Rate: 4.3%
Spain
GDP per capita: $34,600Unemployment Rate: 13.9%Inflation Rate: 1.4%
Country Expert: Mar del Perez Alonso
South Korea
Country Expert: Yena Lee
GDP per capita: $26,000Unemployment Rate: 3.2%Inflation Rate: 4.7%
Sweden
Country Expert: Sebastian Morad
GDP per capita: $38,500Unemployment Rate: 6.4%Inflation Rate: 1.6%
Switzerland
Country Expert: Suter Ulrich, Patrick Jermann
GDP per capita: $40,900Unemployment Rate: 3%Inflation Rate: 2.4%
Turkey
Country Expert: Umut Ozeren, Ipek Hizlikan
GDP per capita: $12,000Unemployment Rate: 7.9%Inflation Rate: 10.2%
United States
Country Experts: Pablo Cienfuegos, Daniel Czajkowski, Andrew Buks, Sanjeev Masih, Bernadette Almeda
GDP per capita: $47,000Unemployment Rate: 7.2%Inflation Rate: 4.2%
Where Are We From? 16 countries Australia Philippines
Austria Russia
Bolivia Singapore
Brazil South Korea
Canada Switzerland
China Turkey
Germany U.S.
India
Lebanon