A share is not a pile of money
When a figure is a percent of GDP, it is a slice of the economy, not a dollar total. A smaller country can have a larger share.
Finance, made clear.
A quiet way to move across countries, markets, and the indicators that describe an economy, in language you do not need a textbook for.
Markets
US dollar, one reference day
How many units of each currency one US dollar bought in the European Central Bank reference rate. Not a live quote.
The Saudi riyal is not in this Frankfurter response, so no SAR rate is shown. See every pair the feed returned.
World snapshot
Seventeen economies, same yardstick
Germany and France each have their own card. Every figure is the World Bank’s latest observation. If a cell is missing, that country had no value in the row.
Topics
Start with a question
GDP
How large the economy is, per person and in total, and how fast it grew.
Compare countriesPrices
How fast consumer prices rose over the year.
Compare countriesJobs
Unemployment, and the share of people in the labor force.
Compare countriesTrade
Exports, imports, and the current account with the rest of the world.
Compare countriesMoney
Broad money and real interest rates, only where a latest value exists.
Compare countriesGovernment
Debt, revenue, taxes, and the budget balance.
Compare countriesA short guide
How to read a number
Blank means unpublished
If the World Bank’s latest row has no value, the cell says “Not published.” That is not zero, and it is not filled in from an older year.
Annual, then one FX day
Country indicators are yearly and can lag. The exchange rates are a single ECB reference day, not a price streaming from a trading screen.