OECD Factbook is the best-selling, annual title from the OECD. It provides a global overview of todays major economic, social and environmental indicators. More countries than ever are covered in greater detail, enabling direct comparisons for many indicators between OECD Members and Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Russian Federation and South Africa.

Table of Contents

• FOREWORD
• ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
• READER'S GUIDE
• Population and migration
• POPULATION
• Total population
• Fertility
• Population by region
• Elderly population by region
• INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION
• Immigrant and foreign population
• Trends in migration
• Migration and employment
• Migration and unemployment
• Production
• PRODUCTION AND PRODUCTIVITY
• Size of GDP
• Evolution of GDP
• GDP by metropolitan area
• Investment rates
• Labour productivity levels
• ECONOMIC STRUCTURE
• Value added by activity
• Real value added by activity
• Small and medium-sized enterprises
• Household income and wealth
• INCOME AND SAVINGS
• National income per capita
• Household disposable income
• Household savings
• INCOME INEQUALITY AND POVERTY
• Income inequality
• Poverty rates and gaps
• HOUSEHOLD WEALTH
• Household financial assets
• Household debt
• Non-financial assets of households
• Globalisation
• TRADE
• Share of international trade in GDP
• International merchandise trade
• International trade in services
• Trade in value added
• Trade in value added: role of intermediates and services
• FDI AND BALANCE OF PAYMENTS
• Foreign direct investment flows
• Foreign direct investment stocks
• FDI regulatory restrictiveness index
• Balance of payments
• Prices
• PRICES AND INTEREST RATES
• Inflation (CPI)
• Producer price indices
• Long-term interest rates
• PURCHASING POWER PARITIES AND EXCHANGE RATES
• Rates of conversion
• Real effective exchange rates
• Energy and Transportation
• ENERGY REQUIREMENTS
• Energy supply
• Energy intensity
• Electricity generation
• Nuclear energy
• Renewable energy
• Oil production
• Oil prices
• TRANSPORT
• Goods transport
• Passenger transport
• Road fatalities
• Labour
• Employment and hours worked
• Employment rates
• Employment rates by age group
• Part-time employment
• Self-employment
• Employment by region
• Hours worked
• UNEMPLOYMENT
• Unemployment rates
• Long-term unemployment
• Unemployment by region
• Environment and Science
• WATER AND WASTE
• Abstractions of freshwater
• Municipal waste
• AIR AND CLIMATE
• Emissions of carbon dioxide
• Sulphur and nitrogen emissions
• Greenhouse gas emissions
• Regional quality of air
• RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
• Expenditure on R&D
• Researchers
• Patents
• Education
• OUTCOMES
• International student assessment
• Students, computers and learning
• Early childhood education and care
• Youth inactivity
• How many students study abroad?
• Educational attainment
• RESOURCES
• Teachers' salaries
• Educational expenditure
• Expenditure in tertiary education
• Government
• GOVERNMENT DEFICITS AND DEBT
• Government expenditures, revenues and deficits
• Government debt
• GENERAL GOVERNMENT
• Expenditures across levels of government
• General government expenditures and revenues per capita
• General government production costs
• PUBLIC EXPENDITURE
• Social expenditure
• Pension expenditure
• Official development assistance
• TAXES
• Taxes on the average worker
• Total tax revenue
• Health
• HEALTH STATUS
• Life expectancy
• Infant mortality
• Suicides
• RISK FACTORS
• Smoking
• Alcohol consumption
• Overweight and obesity
• RESOURCES
• Doctors
• Nurses
• Health expenditure