Table 3

Big Emerging Markets: Economic Profile 1996

 ArgentinaBrazilChinaIndiaMexicoPolandSouth AfricaTaiwanTurkey
Aggregative data
Population
Million persons at midyear35.3162.71,210.0950.195.838.641.721.562.5
Percent change1.31.21.01.81.90.11.71.01.7
Persons per sq. km.12.919.2130.0320.049.8127.034.0666.581.0
Gross domestic product
Billion 1996 US $a 316.0987.03,878.01,432.0694.0258.0257.0283.0361.0
Percent real growth4.42.99.76.55.16.03.15.77.2
Per capita (1996US $)9,000.06,100.03,200.01,500.07,200.06,700.06,200.013,200.05,800.0
Industry
Industrial production (percent growth)4.41.413.111.711.28.50.41.55.9
Electricity (billion kilowatt hours)67.0269.0105.0390.0146.0140.0200.0116.093.0
Agriculture
Grain production (million metric tons)34.447.2380.0165.429.019.311.51.726.1
Trade
Exports, f.o.b. (billion US $)23.847.8151.233.195.924.429.3116.023.1b
Imports, c.i.f. (billion US $)23.756.9138.937.489.537.130.195.342.5
Trade balance (billion US $)0.1-9.112.3-4.36.4-12.7-0.820.7-19.4b
Living standard indicators
Automobile registrations (units per 1,000 persons)c129.076.03.04.092.090.092.0179.047.0
Consumer price growth (percent)0.218.28.39.034.420.27.43.180.3
Educational expenditures as a share of GDP(percent) 5.0c 4.0c 2.42.74.4c 4.56.57.03.1
Life expectancy at birth (years)74.261.669.661.973.772.157.976.771.9
Infant mortality rate (deaths per 1,000 live births)20.055.339.667.825.012.452.47.243.2
Literacy (percent of population)d 96.083.082.052.090.099.082.086.082.0


a Data were converted by purchasing power equivalents; see footnote a in table 7.
b Excludes "suitcase trade" exports estimated at $8.8 billion by the central bank.
c Data are for 1994.
d Age 15 and above who can read and write.