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 General government Capital
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