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🌍 Countries Intelligence
Real-time economic indicators for 29 countries — IMF & World Bank data| Country▾ | GDP▾ | GDP Growth▾ | Interest Rate▾ | Inflation▾ | Jobless Rate▾ | Gov. Budget▾ | Debt/GDP▾ | Current Acct.▾ | Population▾ | Main Activity▾ | S&P▾ | Fitch▾ | Moody's▾ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇷 Argentina | $688.4bn | +3.5% | — | 30.4% | 7.2% | +0.5% | 70.4% | -0.8% | 47.9M | Services 56.2% | |||
| 🇦🇺 Australia | $2.12tn | +2.0% | 4.3% | 4.0% | 4.2% | -2.4% | 50.6% | -2.3% | 28.1M | Natural Resources 13.4% | |||
| 🇧🇷 Brazil | $2.64tn | +1.9% | 14.0% | 4.0% | 6.8% | -7.7% | 96.5% | -2.7% | 214.1M | Services 59.7% | |||
| 🇨🇦 Canada | $2.51tn | +1.5% | 2.2% | 2.5% | 6.5% | -2.7% | 110.7% | -0.2% | 41.6M | Services 64.1% | |||
| 🇨🇳 China | $20.85tn | +4.4% | 3.0% | 1.2% | 5.1% | -8.2% | 106.9% | +3.5% | 1401.9M | Manufacturing 24.7% | |||
| 🇨🇴 Colombia | $539.5bn | +2.3% | 12.0% | 5.9% | 9.0% | -5.2% | 60.9% | -2.5% | 53.4M | Services 58.5% | |||
| 🇨🇮 Côte d'Ivoire | $112.1bn | +6.2% | 3.0% | 1.8% | — | -3.0% | 55.1% | -1.1% | 33.8M | Agriculture 16.8% | NR | ||
| 🇪🇬 Egypt | $429.6bn | +4.2% | 19.0% | 13.2% | 7.4% | -12.1% | 87.0% | -4.2% | 110.1M | Agriculture 16.6% | |||
| 🇫🇷 France | $3.60tn | +0.9% | 2.0% | 1.8% | 7.9% | -4.9% | 118.4% | -0.3% | 69.0M | Services 70.9% | |||
| 🇩🇪 Germany | $5.45tn | +0.8% | 2.0% | 2.7% | 3.9% | -3.8% | 64.6% | +3.9% | 83.5M | Manufacturing 17.6% | |||
| 🇮🇳 India | $4.15tn | +6.5% | 5.2% | 4.7% | 4.9% | -7.4% | 83.4% | -2.0% | 1476.6M | Agriculture 16.2% | |||
| 🇮🇩 Indonesia | $1.54tn | +5.0% | 5.2% | 3.0% | 4.9% | -2.9% | 41.5% | -1.1% | 287.2M | Manufacturing 19.1% | |||
| 🇮🇹 Italy | $2.74tn | +0.5% | 2.0% | 2.6% | 6.0% | -2.8% | 138.4% | +0.6% | 58.9M | Manufacturing 15.0% | |||
| 🇯🇵 Japan | $4.38tn | +0.7% | 1.0% | 2.2% | 2.5% | -2.0% | 204.4% | +3.8% | 122.7M | Manufacturing 18.8% | |||
| 🇲🇽 Mexico | $2.12tn | +1.6% | 6.5% | 3.9% | 2.7% | -4.4% | 62.7% | -0.4% | 134.4M | Manufacturing 20.0% | |||
| 🇳🇱 Netherlands | $1.45tn | +1.2% | 2.0% | 2.7% | 4.1% | -2.7% | 44.1% | +8.8% | 18.1M | Services 70.4% | |||
| 🇳🇿 New Zealand | $278.6bn | +2.1% | 2.8% | 3.1% | 5.4% | -3.9% | 56.7% | -4.0% | 5.4M | Services 68.2% | |||
| 🇳🇬 Nigeria | $377.4bn | +4.1% | 26.5% | 16.0% | 22.6% | -4.4% | 32.3% | +5.8% | 242.6M | Agriculture 23.0% | |||
| 🇵🇱 Poland | $1.13tn | +3.3% | 3.8% | 3.3% | 3.4% | -6.7% | 65.7% | -1.1% | 36.2M | Manufacturing 15.0% | |||
| 🇶🇦 Qatar | $217.4bn | -8.6% | 3.9% | 3.9% | — | -3.4% | 43.3% | +11.0% | 3.2M | Natural Resources 27.3% | |||
| 🇷🇴 Romania | $480.8bn | +0.7% | 6.5% | 7.8% | 6.0% | -6.2% | 61.9% | -6.8% | 18.7M | Services 61.7% | |||
| 🇷🇺 Russia | $2.66tn | +1.1% | 14.0% | 5.6% | 2.4% | -2.0% | 19.1% | +2.9% | 143.4M | Natural Resources 18.5% | NR | ||
| 🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia | $1.39tn | +3.1% | 4.2% | 2.3% | 3.5% | -3.5% | 32.1% | -1.6% | 36.7M | Natural Resources 25.6% | |||
| 🇿🇦 South Africa | $480.0bn | +1.0% | 7.0% | 3.9% | 32.5% | -4.9% | 78.9% | -0.9% | 64.0M | Services 63.1% | |||
| 🇰🇷 South Korea | $1.93tn | +1.9% | 3.0% | 2.5% | 2.8% | -1.5% | 54.4% | +5.6% | 51.6M | Manufacturing 27.4% | |||
| 🇪🇸 Spain | $2.09tn | +2.1% | 2.0% | 3.0% | 9.8% | -2.1% | 98.2% | +2.2% | 50.3M | Services 68.4% | |||
| 🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates | $621.5bn | +3.1% | 3.6% | 2.5% | — | +4.9% | 31.4% | +11.4% | 11.5M | Natural Resources 17.6% | |||
| 🇬🇧 United Kingdom | $4.26tn | +0.8% | 3.8% | 3.2% | 5.6% | -3.9% | 103.6% | -3.4% | 69.8M | Services 73.1% | |||
| 🇺🇸 United States | $32.38tn | +2.3% | 3.8% | 3.2% | 4.4% | -7.5% | 125.8% | -3.7% | 342.9M | Services 76.3% |
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Sources: IMF DataMapper, World Bank Open Data (incl. sector value-added & resource rents), Wikipedia (sovereign credit ratings). "Main Activity" highlights Natural Resources, Manufacturing or Agriculture when one is genuinely dominant, falling back to Services otherwise — see each country's full page for the complete 4-way breakdown. Click a country name for the full page with the 6 Effects Interpreter synthesis. Click any column header to sort.