The CHELEM-GDP
database contains macroeconomic aggregates stretching back to 1960, and
covering the world using both the 61 elementary geographic zones of CHELEM-INT
and figures of 204
independent countries and territories. A particular effort has been
made to provide statistics on the countries of the Former soviet Union.
The data given in CHELEM-GDP are first Gross Domestic Product, in millions
of US dollars. Five
data series are provided for each country or zone:
F
in US dollars, that is to say prices in national currencies in current terms are converted using current exchange rates;
F
in international volume terms, with national prices in constant terms of the base year 1990 being converted using the corresponding exchange rates;
F
in PPP volumes, using a system of constant prices in time and space, which allows constant national prices relative to a base year to be converted using the corresponding Purchasing Power Parities.
The GDP data are completed by population statistics (in millions of inhabitants at the mid-year point), and by nominal exchange rate statistics for all independent countries.
