Download National Accounts at a Glance

National Accounts
at a Glance
New OECD publication
National Accounts Working Party Meeting
Paris 4-6 November 2009
The OECD annual national
accounts publications
• Volume I: Main Aggregates
Country tables + Comparative tables
• Volumes IIa and IIb: Detailed tables
• Volume IIIa: Financial Accounts - Flows
• Volume IIIb: Financial Balance Sheets - Stocks
• Volume IV: General Government Accounts
• National Accounts at a Glance
Objectives of the publication
 Indicator approach focusing on cross-country
comparisons
 Making the accounts more accessible using
meaningful indicators and charts
 Short definitions easy to understand
+ information on comparability issues
 Show the richness of the national accounts dataset
 Focus on measures other than GDP
(Stiglitz commission)
 Flexible content that may change
from year to year
An example
Content
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Chapter 1: GDP
Chapter 2: Income
Chapter 3: Expenditure
Chapter 4: Production
Chapter 5: General government
Chapter 6: Capital
Annex
– A. Reference series
– B. 2008 SNA – changes from 93 SNA
– C. Glossary of main terms
Chapter 1: GDP
• Size of GDP
• GDP growth
• GDP per capita, OECD = 100
Chapter 2: Income
• Net national income per capita, OECD = 100
• Household gross adjusted disposable income
per capita
• Real net national income index
• Net saving rate, % of GDP
• Household net saving rate, % of HH disposable
income
• Net lending/net borrowing by sector
Chapter 3: Expenditure
• Household final consumption, % of GDP
• Actual individual consumption
• General government final consumption
expenditure
• Gross fixed capital formation by asset
• Investment in ICT
• Gross fixed capital formation by sector
• Exports and imports, annual growth rates in %
• Terms of trade
Chapter 4: Production
• Gross value added at basic prices
• Gross value added by activity, % of total
• Contribution to gross value added growth by
activity
• Compensation of employees by activity
Chapter 5: Government
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General government expenditure, % of GDP
Taxes in the SNA, % of GDP
Social contributions to government, % of GDP
Social benefits to households, % of GDP
Financial assets and liabilities of general
government, % of GDP
Chapter 6: Capital
• Net capital stock, year 2000 = 100
• Consumption of fixed capital, % of GDP
• Non-financial assets of households per capita
(dwellings and lands)
• Financial assets of households by type of
financial asset
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