§ Mr. Gareth Wardellasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer (1) if he will publish information available to him on the rank in descending order of the gross domestic product per head of the top 30 countries in the world for each year since 1979;
(2) if he will publish information available to him in descending order of the gross domestic product per head of the top 30 countries in the world for each year since 1979.
§ Mr. MacGregorInformation for the OECD member states is available in the OECD publication "National Accounts, Main Aggregates, Volume 1, 1960–1984". Wider coverage is given by the United Nations publication "National Accounts Statistics, Main Aggregates, 1982". Both volumes are available in the House of Commons Library.
For ranking countries in terms of gross domestic product per capita, there are no fully comparable 333W worldwide data. The official date available for some countries are in terms of gross domestic product; for others they are in terms of net material product. In making comparisons between countries using gross domestic product and those using net material product, extreme caution must be exercised.