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China Country profile

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January 2019

China’s economic transformation makes it an attractive destination for investors and exporters. Over the past 10 years, real GDP has expanded by an average 7.9% p.a. and per capita income has almost tripled to over US$9,500 in 2018. China is the world’s second largest economy, behind the US, and outperforms its peers in emerging and developing Asia on not just growth and per capita income, but creditworthiness and business climate.

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This chart is a cobweb diagram showing how a country measures up on four important dimensions of economic performance—per capita income, annual GDP growth, business climate and creditworthiness. Per capita income is in current US dollars between 2018 and 2023 as provided by the IMF. Annual GDP growth is the average between 2018 and 2023. Business climate is measured by the World Bank’s Ease of Doing Business ranking of 190 countries. Creditworthiness attempts to measure a country's ability to honour its external debt obligations and is measured by its OECD country credit risk rating. The chart shows not only how a country performs on the four dimensions, but how it measures up against other comparable countries.