§ 133. Mr. Stratton Millsasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will publish a table showing, from the information available from international sources, the average annual increase in gross domestic product in France, West Germany, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands, the United States of America, Canada, Japan and Great Britain, between 1958 and 1964, 1960 and 1964 and between 1964 and 1968, respectively.
§ Mr. William RodgersThe information is given in the table below. Figures for 1968 are not yet available from either United Nations or O.E.C.D., and the final columns have, therefore, been carried only up to 1967. In the case of West Germany, the published figures for 1958 exclude the Saar and West Berlin, which are included for later years, but an estimated adjustment for this has been made in arriving at the figure for 1958–64 given in the table.
Following is the table
GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT AT CONSTANT (1963) MARKET PRICES Average annual increase per cent 1958–64 1960–64 1964–67 France 5.4 5.5 4.5 West Germany 5.9* 4.9 2.6 Italy 5.8 5.5 5.0 Belgium 5.0 5.5 3.4 Netherlands 5.5 4.8 4.3 U.S.A. 4.4 4.4 5.1 Canada 4.5 5.2 5.4 Japan 11.6 11.1 9.1 United Kingdom 3.8 3.5 2.1 *Partly estimated