Part 1: GDP in Different Countries (weight 45% of the assignment grade)
Complete the following exercise:
Go to World Development Indicators database:
https://databank.worldbank.org/home.aspx
Click on World Development Indicators.
a. Select 20 countries for your project by checking the check boxes under Country, including USA and China.
b. Select the 2 data series GDP (current US$) and Population (Total) under Series.
c. Select the most recent year under Time. Please use the last year when the data is available. Otherwise you will get zero for this part of the project.
d. Choose Layout on the upper left side of the screen. Under Orientation choose “Page” for Time, “Column” for Series, “Row” for Country.
e. Retrieve data. You can now retrieve data by clicking on the options on the right upper side of the window. Clicking “Table” will allow you to see data. Click “Download options” and choose “Data on this page only – formatted”. This option will allow you to download the data in Excel, which can then be copied into your report file. Or you can simply type the required data into the table below. Fill in the table below.
f. Present the table in your project.
g. Calculate the per capita GDP for the most recent available year for the countries with the equation given in the far right column.
Country GDP Population Per Capita GDP
1 2 3 4 = 2/3