Table 8

Real Gross Domestic Product Growth

Percent
 Average Annual Rate of Growth
 1971-801981-90199119921993199419951996
North America
Canada4.62.9-1.70.72.24.12.31.5
Mexico6.61.63.62.10.84.5-6.25.1
United States3.12.9-1.02.72.23.52.02.4
Other Westrn Hemisphere
Argentina2.5-0.98.98.76.07.4-4.64.4
Brazil8.41.31.1-0.94.25.84.12.9
Western Europe
Belgium3.31.92.31.9-1.72.31.91.4
France3.32.40.71.3-1.52.82.11.5
Germany2.7b 2.2b 4.5b 2.0-1.22.81.91.4
Italy3.72.21.20.7-1.22.22.90.7
Netherlands2.91.92.32.00.83.42.12.7
Spain3.53.02.20.7-1.12.02.82.2
United Kingdom2.02.6-2.0-0.52.33.82.52.1
Eurasia
Hungary2.7-0.1-6.8-0.6-1.72.91.50.8
Poland3.6-0.5-7.65.36.15.27.06.0
RussiaNANA-5.0-14.5-8.7-12.6-4.0-6.0
UkraineNANA-12.0-17.0-14.2-19.0-4.0-10.0
East Asia/Pacific
Chinac 6.18.08.213.013.811.910.29.7
Japan4.54.14.31.1-0.20.71.33.7
Singapore9.97.06.76.010.110.18.87.0
South Korea8.29.39.15.15.98.68.97.1
Tawian9.47.47.36.56.26.56.05.7
Thailand6.87.78.47.98.28.58.66.7
South Asia
India3.25.81.24.63.56.26.36.5
Pakistan4.86.25.47.81.94.04.75.5

a See footnotea, table 7 for sources of GDP estimates used to calculate GDP growth.
b Western Germany only.
c Official statistics.