Purchasing Power Parities and Real Expenditures 2007

This publication presents the final results on estimates of purchasing power parities of currencies of participating economies. These include estimates of "real" gross domestic product (GDP) and its major components, namely, household consumption, government consumption, gross capital formation, and net external trade. The final phase of the 2005 global International Comparison Program (ICP) will integrate results from Asia and the Pacific with results from the other five regions: Africa, Commonwealth of Independent States, Latin America, Western Asia, and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and Eurostat "region."

The participating economies include 21 developing member countries of ADB—Bangladesh; Bhutan; Brunei Darussalam; Cambodia; People’s Republic of China; Fiji Islands; Hong Kong, China; India; Indonesia; Lao People’s Democratic Republic; Malaysia; Maldives; Mongolia; Nepal; Pakistan; Philippines; Singapore; Sri Lanka; Taipei,China; Thailand; and Viet Nam—and, at their request to participate, the Islamic Republic of Iran and Macao, China.