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Team A: NAFTA vs European Union (world’s 2 largest economic entities)
USE tables and/or graphs to support your analysis of the following economic statistics/indicators of your 2 assigned economies through the most recent year available since 2009 (the trough of the last economic cycle). Whenever possible, plot the metric for both economies on the same chart.
GDP per capita growth over time
Inflation rate over time
Unemployment rate over time
NAFTA and European union are two big economic bloc in the world .
Analysis on GDP
The GDP of NAFTA is more than the EU .The GDP of NAFTA in 2018 was $24. 36 trillion and for EU was $18.29 trillion .
GDP per capita growth over time (2010 - 2019) for European Union
GDP per capita growth over Time For NAFTA countries
From Above both graph we can say that GDP per capita for NAFTA is more than EU
Inflation Rate for EU over time
2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 |
1.77% | 2.87% | 2.61% | 1.37% |
The inflation for NAFTA countries is
2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 |
2.52% | 3.15% | 2.55% | 2.07% |
from above data when can say the inflation rate for NAFTA is more than EU . One smilirity is that the graph of inflation rate for both bolc follow zig -zag path
Now Unemployment rate for EU
2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 |
9.9% | 9.9% | 10.9% | 11.4% | 10.9% | 10.1% |
Unemployment rate for NAFTA
2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 |
7.66% | 7.19% | 6.76% | 6.46% | 5.99% | 5.5% |
Above data we can say that the unemployment rate for NAFTA is less than EU .
The overall analysis we can say that the both EU and NAFTA bloc sucessfull in some aspect like in unemployment rate NAFTA got success .