New Annual National Accounts Publication

1. New Annual National Accounts Publication Working Party on National Accounts 14-16 October 2008

2. Background • List of indicators • Format for presentation

3. Background • Decreasing role of paper publications as snapshots of databases • Review of NA publications • Some modifications to suite of publications but main object of review: current volume I on ‘Main aggregates’ • Objectives: • Add value through indicators and synthetic presentation • Convey message: national accounts have more to offer than GDP

4. Detailed list of indicators GDP - measuring economies and economic activity • Gross domestic product (GDP) at current prices and current PPPs • Real GDP Growth • GDP per capita (year 2000 = 100) • GDP per capita (OECD=100) converted with fixed PPPs Where GDP is generated: production • Value added by main industry, shares of total • Value added by main industry, contributions to growth of total • Gross value added at basic prices, growth rates • Components of gross value added (generation of income), percent

5. GDP: expenditure components Household consumption • Real household final consumption expenditure, growth rates • Household final consumption expenditure, share of GDP • Household consumption expenditure, percentage of actual final consumption • Household actual final consumption per capita, OECD=100 Government consumption • Real general government consumption expenditure, growth rates • General government consumption expenditure, share of GDP Investment • Real gross fixed capital formation growth • Gross fixed capital formation, share of GDP Exports and imports • Exports growth • Imports growth • Imports, percentage of GDP • Exports, percentage of GDP The relative importance of demand components • Contribution to GDP growth by final demand components, percent, current prices. Depreciation • Depreciation, percent of GDP • Real NDP growth

6. Income • Net domestic product (NDP), percentage of net national income (NNI) • Net national income (NNI), percentage of net national disposable income • Real national disposable income, growth rates • Real adjusted disposable income for households per capita, growth rates • Saving, percentage of GDP • Net lending/net borrowing by institutional sector, percentage of GDP General government • Total expenditure, share of GDP • Taxes (indirect, direct and on capital), share of GDP • Social contributions, share of GDP • Social benefits, share of GDP • Financial assets net of liabilities, percentage of GDP Capital • Financial and non-financial assets held by households • Index of net capital stock, volume (2000=100) • Index of residential net capital stock (2000=100)

7. Reference series • GDP at constant prices and PPPs • GDP per head at current prices and current PPPs • GDP per head, at constant prices and PPPs • GDP per head, at constant prices and PPPs, OECD=100 • Actual individual consumption, at current prices and current PPPs • Actual individual consumption, at constant prices and PPPs • Actual individual consumption per head, at current prices and current PPPs • Actual individual consumption per head, at constant prices and PPPs • Actual individual consumption per head, at constant prices and PPPs, OECD=100 • Population