GNP Statistics

HC Deb 01 December 1986 vol 106 cc430-1W

Mr. Matins

asked the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry (1) if he will publish a table showing information available to him on (i) the nominal gross national product in United States dollars for Japan, the United States of America and the European Community for the years 1970, 1975, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985 and 1986, estimated, and (ii) the nominal gross national product of Japan expressed in yen for the same years;

(2) if he will publish a table showing information available to him on (i) nominal gross national product per capita in United States dollars for Japan, the United States of America and the European Community for the years 1970, 1975, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985 and 1986, estimated, and (ii) nominal gross national product per capita in Japan expressed in yen for the same years.

Mr. Alan Clark

The information is in the following tables. Estimates for the whole of the European Community in 1986 are not readily available.

	United States of America	European Community1	Japan	Japan2
	US dollars	US dollars	US dollars	Thousand yen
1983	13,951	7,748	9,894	2,353
1984	15,335	7,358	10,457	2,488
1985	16,051	7,575	11,008	2,628
1986	316,900	. .	415,200	42,710
. .Not readily available.
1Present membership throughout.
2Gross National Product.
3Estimate based on 9 months data.
4Estimate based on 6 months data.

Source:

OECD National Accounts.

OECD Main Economic Indicators.

Mr. Malins

asked the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he will publish a table showing information available to him on the annual growth of real gross national product, both by annual gross domestic product

Gross Domestic Product
Index 1980=100
	USA	Change on previous year	European Community (12)	Change on previous year	Japan	Change on previous year
		percentage		percentage		percentage
1970	74.9	-0.3	74.9	4.8	63.6	9.5
1971	77.3	3.2	77.5	3.5	66.2	4.1
1972	81.4	5.4	80.9	4.4	71.8	8.4
1973	86.0	5.7	85.8	6.1	77.5	7.9
1974	85.3	-0.9	87.3	1.7	76.5	-1.2
1975	84.6	-0.8	86.5	-0.9	78.5	2.6
1976	88.6	4.7	90.8	5.0	82.3	4.8
1977	93.5	5.5	93.0	2.4	86.6	5.3
1978	97.9	4.7	95.9	3.1	91.0	5.1
1979	100.4	2.6	99.0	3.2	95.7	5.2
1980	100.0	-0.4	100.0	1.0	100.0	4.4
1981	103.4	3.4	99.8	-0.2	103.9	3.9
1982	100.3	-3	100.4	0.6	106.8	2.8
1983	103.3	2.9	101.7	1.3	110.2	3.2
1984	110.7	7.2	103.8	2.1	115.7	5.0
1985	113.1	2.2	106.0	2.1	121.0	4.6
1986	1115.1	12.7	. .	. .	2123.0	22.7
1Estimated on three quarters data.
2Estimated on first half data.
. . Not readily available.

Source:

OECD National Accounts.

OECD Main Economic Indicators.