WIIW The Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies - Wiener Institut für Internationale Wirtschaftsvergleiche

The Handbook is published annually and contains revised, updated and expanded annual and monthly statistics.
Time series and related tables are extracted from the Annual, Monthly and Foreign Direct Investment Databases maintained and regularly updated by wiiw.

The hardcopy includes a PDF on CD-ROM (with identical content as the hardcopy).

• 18 countries covered in detail
• Time series given for 2000, 2005, 2008-2011, graphs range from 2007 to September 2012
• Reliable data, comparable across countries for a broad range of economic indicators

New features:

• Activity breakdown by NACE Rev. 2 classification included for the majority of countries
• Key indicators are now available also for neighbouring countries (AT, DE) and for other cohesion countries (GR, IE, PT, ES) allowing for easy cross-country comparisons

Content

• Cross-country overview
  • 1. Macroeconomic indicators
  • 2. External sector
• Data by indicators
  • 1. Main economic indicators
  • 2. Gross domestic product by activities
  • 3. Employment by activities
  • 4. Labour productivity and wages by activities
  • 5. Gross domestic product by expenditure
  • 6. Gross fixed capital formation by type and activities
  • 7. Foreign trade in goods
    • 7.1 Foreign trade by country groupings
    • 7.2 Exports to the top thirty partners
    • 7.3 Imports from the top thirty partners
    • 7.4 Exports and imports by SITC commodity groups
  • 8. Balance of payments

Examples

• Table of contents (PDF)
• Sample tables (PDF)
• Sample graphs (PDF)

Related Publication

The Excel version contains:

• data in Excel by chapter and by country
• time series from 1990 - 2011

wiiw Handbook of Statistics 2012:
CD-ROM - Excel