美国中央情报局修订<世界国情一书>

美国中央情报局修订<世界国情一书>

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 23% 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 book 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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• 一点纠正，US实体经济占比是22.3%，不是23%, 即使如此中国的工业产值也超过美国26% -Chiyankun- ♂ (345 bytes) () 05/10/2015 postreply 09:46:37

• Thank you for your correction. -panlm_- ♀ (444 bytes) () 05/10/2015 postreply 09:55:48

• 实际上美国很多工业品的价值被高估了，这是通过技术垄断来实现的。一旦中国的相关技术取得突破，所有相关工业品都会被白菜化 -Twinlight- ♂ (547 bytes) () 05/10/2015 postreply 10:54:36

• 美国搞研究的人还是很专业的！这是最佩服的地方！ -研究研究- ♂ (0 bytes) () 05/10/2015 postreply 12:13:32

• 美国IT行业这么多三锅，我直觉美国在坐过山车，现在往下滑。 -ymck- ♂ (0 bytes) () 05/10/2015 postreply 22:44:27