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Table 16
International comparisons
Table summary
This table displays the results of International comparisons Population, Life expectancy at birth, GDP per capita, General government debt, Consumer Price Index, Unemployment rate, 2019 and 2018, calculated using millions, years, US$, percent of GDP, annual percent change and percent units of measure (appearing as column headers).
	2019	2018 ^{Table 16 Note 1}	2019 ^{Table 16 Note 2}	2019 ^{Table 16 Note 2}	2019 ^{Table 16 Note 2}	2019 ^{Table 16 Note 2}
	Population	Life expectancy at birth	GDP per capita	General government debt	Consumer Price Index	Unemployment rate
	millions	years	US$^{Table 16 Note 3}	percent of GDP	annual percent change	percent
OECD^{Table 16 Note 4} countries
Australia	25.3	82.6	54,752^{Note e: estimate}	73.4	1.6	5.2
Austria	8.9	81.7	58,620	89.8	1.5	4.5
Belgium	11.5	81.6	53,613	118.1	1.4	5.4
Canada	37.4	82.0	50,967	108.5	2.0	5.7
Chile	19.1	80.2	25,075	37.2	2.6	7.0
Colombia	50.4	71.0	15,985^{Note e: estimate}	68.5	11.2	7.4
Czech Republic	10.7	79.1	42,165	40.1	2.9	2.0
Denmark	5.8	81.2	59,135	47.8	0.8	5.0
Estonia	1.3	78.2	38,463	12.7	2.3	4.4
Finland	5.5	81.7	50,534	69.9	1.0	6.7
France	64.8	82.6	47,823^{Table 16 Note †}	122.1	1.1	8.4
Germany	83.1	81.1	55,743	70.4	1.5	3.1
Greece	10.7	81.4	31,172^{Note p: preliminary}	195.5	0.3	17.3
Hungary	9.8	75.9	33,792^{Note p: preliminary}	84.5	3.3	3.4
Iceland	0.4	82.7	58,470^{Note e: estimate}	Note ..: not available for a specific reference period	3.0	3.5
Ireland	4.9	82.2	90,141	75.2	0.9	5.0
Israel	8.5	82.6	41,678^{Note e: estimate}	71.0	0.8	3.8
Italy	60.3	83.0	43,889	147.3	0.6	10.0
Japan	126.2	84.2	42,486^{Note e: estimate}	238.7	0.5	2.4
Korea	51.8	82.7	43,426^{Note e: estimate}	Note ..: not available for a specific reference period	0.4	3.8
Latvia	1.9	74.8	32,097	43.7	2.8	6.3
Lithuania	2.8	75.6	38,250	41.1	2.3	6.3
Luxembourg	0.6	82.2	119,573	29.0	1.7	5.6
Mexico	126.6	75.0^{Note p: preliminary}	20,772^{Note e: estimate}	54.2	3.6	3.5
Netherlands	17.3	81.8	59,420^{Note p: preliminary}	65.6	2.6	3.4
New Zealand	5.0	81.9^{Note e: estimate}	43,746^{Note p: preliminary}	Note ..: not available for a specific reference period	1.6	4.1
Norway	5.3	82.7	69,169	46.7	2.2	3.7
Poland	38.4	77.9	33,380	66.6	2.3	3.3
Portugal	10.3	81.5	35,963^{Note e: estimate}	137.1	0.3	6.5
Slovak Republic	5.5	77.3	33,919	63.6	2.7	5.8
Slovenia	2.1	81.1	40,020	83.2	1.6	4.4
Spain	47.1	83.4	41,758^{Note p: preliminary}	117.1	0.7	14.1
Sweden	10.3	82.5	54,834	58.5	1.8	6.8
Switzerland	8.6	83.6	70,485^{Note p: preliminary}	41.1	0.4	4.4
Turkey	82.6	78.1	28,402^{Note e: estimate}	32.7	15.2	13.7
United Kingdom	66.8	81.3	48,092	116.6	1.7	3.7
United States	329.2	78.6	65,127^{Note e: estimate}	135.1	1.8	3.7
All OECD	1,356.8	Note ..: not available for a specific reference period	47,917	Note ..: not available for a specific reference period	2.3	5.8
Non-OECD countries
China	1,398.0	76.5	14,306	Note ..: not available for a specific reference period	2.9	2.9
India	1,391.9	68.9	5,902	Note ..: not available for a specific reference period	7.7	Note ...: not applicable
Russia	146.7	72.6	28,764	Note ..: not available for a specific reference period	4.5	4.6
South Africa	58.6	63.4	12,811	Note ..: not available for a specific reference period	4.1	28.7
.. not available for a specific reference period ... not applicable ^p preliminary ^e estimate Note † break in series Return to note † referrer Note 1 2018 or latest available Return to note 1 referrer Note 2 2019 or latest available Return to note 2 referrer Note 3 Gross domestic product (GDP) at current market prices using current exchange rates. Return to note 3 referrer Note 4 Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Return to note 4 referrer Note: International comparisons should be used to gain a general impression only, as there are differences in definitions, data collection and other factors. Sources: Population figures are from “World population data” at prb.org (mid-2019); OECD (2020), Life expectancy at birth (indicator). doi: 10.1787/27e0fc9d-en; Gross domestic product (GDP) (indicator). doi: 10.1787/dc2f7aec-en; General government debt (indicator). doi: 10.1787/a0528cc2-en;Inflation (CPI) (indicator). doi: 10.1787/eee82e6e-en; Unemployment rate (indicator). doi: 10.1787/997c8750-en (Accessed on 3 June 2020).

Date modified:: 2020-11-30