Current Economic Data

Austria: Selected economic indicators

Recent update: March 26, 2010

 

	2008	2009	2010	2011
Rate of change in %
GDP, nominal	4.1	-1.8	2.0	2.7
GDP, real	2.0	-3.6	1.3	1.4
Private consumption expenditure, real	0.8	0.4	0.7	0.7
Gross fixed capital formation, real	1.0	-7.8	-1.9	1.9
Exports of goods, real (Statistics Austria)	0.3	-17.7	5.0	6.2
Imports of goods, real (Statistics Austria)	0.2	-15.2	2.4	4.8
Employment1)	2.4	-1.4	-0.2	0.1
Unemployment rate (Eurostat, in %)	3.8	5.0	5.2	5.4
HICP (in %)	3.2	0.5	1.4	1.8
Balance on current account (in % of GDP)	3.2	2.3	2.5	2.9
Net lending of general government (Maastricht, in % of GDP)2)	-0.4	-3.5	-4.7	-4.0
Gross debt of general government (in % of GDP)2)	62.6	66.5	70.2	72.6
Productivity3)	-0.2	-2.6	1.2	1.0
Unit labour costs3)	2.8	5.1	0.0	0.8

1) Non-self employed without recipients of childcare benefits and without conscripts
2) Federal Ministry of Finance
3) Economy (as a whole)

Source: WIFO, Federal Ministry of Finance

• Statistics Austria
• OeNB
• WIFO
• IHS

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