Economy Stats: compare key data on Gambia & United States
Definitions
- Currency > Monetary unit: Country currency.
- Debt > Interest rates > Central bank discount rate: Compares the annualized interest rate set by centrals banks over loans requested by commercial banks to meet temporary shortages of funds. Through these loans, central banks can influence the commercial banks' interest rates as a tool of monetary policy. Usually their interest rates are lower than the ones offered by commercial banks, which lend it at a higher rate to make their profit.
- Development > Human Development Index: Human Development Index trends, 1980-2012.
- Exports > Main exports: Country main exports.
- GDP > By type of expenditure > Household consumption expenditure: GDP by Type of Expenditure at current prices - US dollars.
- GNI per capita: Country GNI per capita.
- Poverty and inequality > Poorest's share in national income or consumption: Percentage of country's total income or consumption that belongs to the poorest 5% of its citizens.
- Retail > Gross value added by wholesale, retail trade, restaurants and hotels: Gross Value Added by Kind of Economic Activity at current prices - US dollars.
- Trade > Exports > Exports of goods and services: GDP by Type of Expenditure at current prices - US dollars.
- Trade > Imports > Imports of goods and services: GDP by Type of Expenditure at current prices - US dollars.
SOURCES: British Broadcasting Corporation 2014; Wikipedia: List of countries by central bank interest rates (https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2207rank.html http://www.worldinterestrates.info/ http://www.forexmotion.com/index.php/en/exchange-rates.html); United Nations Development Programme. Source tables; United Nations Statistics Division. Source tables; United Nations Statistics Division. Source tables; United Nations Statistics Division; United Nations Statistics Division. Source tables; United Nations Statistics Division. Source tables
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