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Tuesday, August 23, 2011

OECD Announces Slower Growth in Second Quarter: 0.2%

OECD Press Release: http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/42/9/48539187.pdf

Yesterday the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, which represents 34 countries, announced that GDP growth among these more developed economies had slowed to 0.2% during the second quarter, down marginally from 0.3% during the first quarter -- a very anemic growth rate overall.

Although latest rates were not announced for all of the OECD countries, I made the following chart, with the countries sorted by GDP size, to get a picture of growth on a per-country basis.

data from www.oecd.org

According to this data, the following countries had negative economic growth:

  • Japan
  • Australia*
  • Norway*
  • Portugal*
  • Denmark*
* Based on Q1 data


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