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Compares the gross domestic product (GDP) or value of all final goods and services produced within a nation in a given year. A nation's GDP at purchasing power parity (PPP) exchange …

Compares the difference between the number of persons entering and leaving a country during the year per 1,000 persons (based on midyear population).

Compares the total public and private debt owed to nonresidents repayable in foreign currency, goods, or services. These figures are calculated on an exchange rate basis.

Compares the percentage of the labor force that is without jobs.

Compares figures for the average number of children that would be born per woman if all women lived to the end of their childbearing years and bore children according to a given fertility rate …