The Economic, Social, and Environmental Determinants for the Agricultural Output in Some European Union Countries - The Agricultural Economics of the 21st Century - page 57

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Spain
France
Greece
Ireland
Italy
Portugal
United Kingdom

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Fig. 5.10 Inflation, consumer prices (annual %) between European countries

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Spain
France
Greece
Ireland
Italy
Portugal
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Fig. 5.11 Lending interest rate (%) between European countries

Ireland is the country with the best performance in the percentage of export
goods and services relative to its GDP (Fig. 5.14 ). Germany recently had a good
performance, also, in exports, but the dynamics in Ireland are greater.
The evolution of the gross capital formation in percentage of the GDP followed a
pattern more or less similar in the several countries considered and was about 20 %
at the beginning of the 1960s and decreased slightly in 2011 (Fig. 5.15 ).
Portugal (about 30 %) and Ireland (about 15 %) were the countries with more
percentage of the value added from agriculture into the total GDP at the beginning