Market Indicators and Forecasts

• In-depth coverage of 60 key markets worldwide and more than 500 different variables per country to help you gauge international demand for your products and services

• Includes historic and forecast data running from 1990 to 2007, from industry trends to labour-market competitiveness

• Five-year forecasts on eight industries: automotive; consumer goods; energy; financial services; food, beverages, and tobacco; healthcare and pharmaceuticals; telecoms and technology; and transport, travel and tourism.

• Essential global business planning tool that offers a complete picture of country market size and potential

Market Indicators and Forecast is the ideal global business planning tool that international business executives have long been waiting for. Covering 60 major markets worldwide, and forecasting out five years, Market Indicators and Forecasts includes historic and forecast data on more than 500 different market conditions, from industry trends to labour market competitiveness. It helps you gauge international demand for your products and services.

Who uses Market Indicators and Forecasts?

Market Indicators and Forecasts enables executives to assess accurately the global marketplace. These executives include CEOs, COOs, directors of planning and business development, marketing and sales directors, market researchers, analysts, financial managers and economists. It is especially valuable to professional services firms, consulting firms, financial institutions, universities and government agencies, whose interests span multiple markets and sectors. With a heavy focus on consumer markets and demographics, it is ideal for organisations that offer consumer products and services.

Market Indicators and Forecasts delivers the data that every market strategist and planner needs: it's a one-stop shop for economic, demographic, consumption and industry data on the key countries in which you operate in. Whether researching a new market, drawing up budgets, planning an export drive or scoping out an investment, Market Indicators and Forecasts has the figures you need, and can help you answer these crucial questions and many more:

• How much will your industry be worth in Russia and China in five years' time?

• Which country in Latin America has the highest Internet penetration rate?

• Which country in Asia has the most attractive business environment?

• Where should you locate your production plants and your R&D?

• Which country in Europe has the highest corporate tax rate?

Feature and benefits

• In-depth coverage of 60 key markets worldwide and more than 500 different variables per country, all in one place --offering a complete picture market size and growth potential.

• Extensive data from labour costs to income levels, from economic growth to industry forecasts. Full range of industries covered including financial services, automotive, energy, healthcare, telecoms and technology, consumer goods, food, beverages and tobacco, travel and tourism and transport.

• A variety of bank performance indicators including profitability, productivity, asset quality, income statement and balance sheet items.

• Comprehensive coverage of consumer demographics, income, expenditure and housing.

• Key macroeconomic forecasts including GDP, inflation, investment, trade and FDI.

• Regional aggregates covering the six major world and global trends

• Risk ratings covering both country credit risk and business operations risk including political, economic policy, economic structure, liquidity and sovereign debt risks, as well as security risk and infrastructure risk

• Advanced functionality on a variety of platforms so you can use the data anyway you want -- chart, export to Excel, sort/select by any variable for any country, download data straight into presentations and budgeting models, profile a single country or compare data across countries.

Which data series are provided?

Market Indicators and Forecasts contains more than 500 variables for each country, divided into these major categories and including the following series:

• Macroeconomic indicators - Real GDP growth, nominal GDP, GDP per head, origins of GDP, gross investment, inflation rate, budget balance, international trade data, inward and outward FDI flows and stocks, private consumption, consumer spending patterns, investment, international trade, and EIU business environment ratings on market opportunities and macroeconomic stability.

• Demographics and health - Population level and growth, share of world population, breakdown of population by gender and age group, birth and death rates, dependency ratios, urbanisation, number of households, housing and office space, personal income, average wages and income distribution.

• Automotive - Car, motorcycle and commercial vehicle registrations and production, bus registrations and production, passenger cars stock and petrol consumption.

• Consumer goods - Private consumption levels, retail sales, sales value for clothing, footwear, cosmetics and toiletries, perfumes, fragrances and skincare products, sales value of furniture and household cleaning products, consumer expenditure on household goods and services, stock and sales volume for televisions, personal computers, refrigerators, video recorders and washing machines, and EIU retail and wholesale network rating.

• Energy - Total consumption, production and imports, motor and aviation fuel delivery, LNG imports and exports, LPG delivery, refinery capacity, nuclear electricity power generation, installed electricity capacity, and electricity transmission and distribution losses.

• Food, beverages and tobacco - Consumer expenditure, calorie and protein intake, meat, fruit, vegetable and fish consumption, sales volume of confectionery, milk, coffee and tea consumption, sales volume of cigarettes and sales volume of alcoholic and soft drinks.

• Financial services - Number of banks, insurance companies in market, mutual funds, employees per institution, full-service bank branches, ATMs, concentration of top ten banks by assets, current-account deposits, time and savings deposits, total AUM of institutional investors, pension funds’ financial assets, open-end investment companies’ financial assets, insurance companies’ financial assets, other institutional investors’ financial assets, local stockmarket capitalisation, total lending by banking institutions, lending to the private sector, lending to businesses, lending to government, lending to individuals, basic indicators such as population, households, labour force, GDP, private consumption expenditure, national savings, disposable income, M1 money supply, quasi money supply, households income stratification, wholesale market stratification, key penetration indicators, including total lending per capita, total lending per income earner, total lending per household, balance-sheet items including bank assets, banks’ capital and reserves, bank loans, bank deposits, net interest income, and bank performance indicators including income state items, asset quality items, profitability and productivity indicators.

• Healthcare and pharmaceuticals - Total life expectancy, infant mortality rate, doctors, hospital beds, healthcare spending, healthcare spending % of GDP and per head, prescription-only medicine, pharmaceutical sales, medical equipment, number of infectious diseases, cancers, respiratory and circulatory diseases.

• Telecoms and IT - EIU ebusiness readiness rankings, telephone main lines, phone sets and faults, mobile subscribers, Internet users, personal computers, telecommunications investment, software products, applications software, systems software, hardware sales, PC peripherals and server sales.

• Transport, travel and tourism - Total length of roads and paved roads, % of paved roads, density of paved roads, length of railway network, railroad density, air transport freight, air transport passengers, EIU road, rail and ports ratings, international tourist arrivals, departures, expenditures and receipts, consumer expenditure on hotels and restaurants.

• Competitiveness - EIU labour market rating, average wage growth, overall and manufacturing unit labour costs, labour force, employment and unemployment levels, productivity of labour, productivity of capital, availability of skilled labour, education spending, education enrolment ratios, literacy rate, R&D spending and levels of patent applications and grants.

• Politics, institutions and regulations - Corporate, personal and value-added tax rates, industrial relations, restrictiveness of labour laws, wage regulation, incidence of strikes, stockmarket capitalisation, employers’ social security contributions, customs tariffs, terrorism threat, international disputes and tensions, and EIU business environment ratings on foreign trade, tax, financing, the labour market, political stability, corruption and policy towards private enterprise and foreign investment.

• Country credit risk - Overall risk rating and scores, currency risk rating and scores, sovereign debt risk rating and scores, and banking sector risk rating and scores, including political risk, economic policy risk, monetary policy risk, fiscal policy risk, exchange-rate policy risk, trade policy risk, regulatory policy risk, economic structure risk, global environment risk, economic growth risk, current-account risk, debt structure risk, financial structure risk, liquidity risk.

• Business operations risk - Risks to business profitability including overall score, security risk, political risk, legal & regulatory risk, macroeconomic risk, foreign trade & payments risk, financial risk, tax policy risk, labour market risk, infrastructure risk.

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