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Before terrorists blew up a plane carrying Russian tourists as it flew over Sinai in 2015, Russians accounted for 30% of visitors to Egypt.
Indeed, from 2000 to 2004, the increase in net government expenditures accounted for 150% of income growth, as other sources of income shriveled up.
Services accounted for nearly half of developing Asia’s GDP in 2010, two-thirds of India’s growth from 2000 to 2010, and 43% of growth in the manufacturing-oriented PRC in the same period.
At the same time, these objectives, while pressing, should not obscure the need to focus on yields – increases in which have accounted for three-quarters of food-production growth in recent decades.
In 2013 alone, it accounted for 1.5 million deaths, including one-fifth of adult deaths in low-income countries.
For example, the United States is the leading contributor of global health aid, which accounted for just 0.23% of US spending in 2013.
In 2002, education accounted for 16% of total domestic spending in poor countries.
These studies, for instance, verify and quantify what should be obvious: the loss of a job has a greater impact than can be accounted for just by the loss of income.
And expatriate earnings accounted for more than one-third of Tajikistan’s national income.
In 1993, advanced manufactured goods accounted for 50% of total exports to China, while raw materials and intermediate goods comprised the remainder.
By 2003, advanced manufactures accounted for a mere 8% of the total, with resource and intermediate products accounting for the rest.
In 2015, HFO accounted for nearly 60% of the marine fuel consumed by ships operating in the Arctic.
Protestants in Latin America accounted for only 2.2% of the population in 1900, but 16.4% in 2010, with growth coming mainly at the expense of Catholics, whose population share fell from 90.4% to 82.3%.
Similarly, Latin America accounted for 9.8% of (non-martyr) canonizations, along with 6.6% for North America, 4.1% for Asia, and 0.8% for Africa.
And with good reason: US exports, which accounted for a record 13.7% of GDP in the fourth quarter of 2013, up from 10.6% in the first quarter of 2009, slipped back to 12.7% of GDP in mid-2015.
Over the past decade, China has accounted for an average of 1.6 percentage points of world GDP growth per year – more than double the combined 0.7-percentage-point contribution of the so-called advanced economies.
For example, the economic hardship faced since 2008 by many eurozone countries, which have traditionally accounted for a substantial share of global trade, has discouraged consumption, hiring, and much more.
Even at the height of global trade expansion in 2002-2007, exports (in value-added terms) accounted for only a little more than one-quarter of GDP growth, whereas domestic investment contributed a substantially larger share.
Government budget deficits have long accounted for the largest share of America’s seemingly chronic saving shortfall.
Indeed, of the 20.2-percentage-point increase in aggregate household savings (as a share of GDP) in China from 1992 to 2009, the middle-aged cohort accounted for more than 60% (the remainder was largely attributable to the elderly).
But these figures do not speak to Piketty’s thesis that inheritance has accounted for an increasing share of household wealth and exacerbates wealth inequality.
Globally, renewable power accounted for 70% of net additions to power-generating capacity in 2017, according to the Renewables 2018 Global Status Report.
From 2010 to 2015, the cumulative external surplus accounted for just 44% of the net change in Japan’s investment position.
Financial-account transactions caused 32% of that change, while valuation changes relating to exchange and interest rates accounted for the rest.
In 1997, other EU states accounted for 30% of inward foreign direct investment: by 2012, the EU’s share had risen to 50%.
The WEO estimates that in emerging-market economies, foreign knowledge accounted for about 0.7 percentage points of annual growth in labor productivity from 2004 to 2014, and a total of 40% of observed sectoral productivity growth.
The federal government also has debt that has not been accounted for, and which one doesn’t often hear about.
The debt that has been accounted for is the $15.6 trillion held by the public in the form of US Treasury bonds.
The debts that have not been accounted for include the deferred costs of maintenance on roads, water systems, and 54,560 structurally deficient bridges, as well as the yet-to-be-built low-carbon energy systems necessary to mitigate the catastrophic effects of climate change.
The 2017 US federal deficit was $665 billion, reflecting the amount by which debt that is actually accounted for increased.
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