美國中央情報局修訂<世界國情一書>

美國中央情報局修訂<世界國情一書>

CIA updated the World Factbook at its website (https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/).

It is interesting to see that the CIA World Factbook has reranked over 200 countries or areas on the basis of GDP in which the USA stands at the 3rd place following China and EU. Also, it changed the economic components of the States by increasing its physical economy to about 22.3% of its entire GDP.

Some arguments can be made though. For example, GDP per capita in 2014 are overestimated for countries like Iraq, Brazil, Mexico, and underestimated for nations like North Korea, India, UK. For example, North Korea per capita GDP should be higher than Iraq; India higher than Brazil; UK higher than Japs.

A basic criterion to estimate real GDP per capita of a nation is the value of annual electricity production (kwh) per capita, which is strongly correlated with the value of physical GDP per capita in a nation. You cannot expect a country has lower electricity production to produce higher GDP. That is impossible.

The CIA World Factbook is one of the best reference books for understanding what is currently going on in a country or an area in each corner of this planet. I usually refer it before I plan a trip.  
 

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• This book should be referred when you -panlm_- ♀ (50 bytes) () 05/10/2015 postreply 10:32:30

• 看來美國還是有明白人，知道中超美 -FHZM- ♂ (0 bytes) () 05/10/2015 postreply 12:27:17