Interactive: Tracking the global economic recovery

The global recovery “is in danger of skidding off course”, according to the latest Brookings Institution-Financial Times tracking index of the world economy, with growth slowing down sharply amid financial turbulence and policy paralysis.

The index, which covers the G20 economies, is composed of three types of variable: indicators of real economic activity, such as GDP, imports and exports; financial indicators, such as stock market indices and capitalisation; and confidence indicators, both business and consumer.

These variables combined can deliver a snapshot of the world economy and individual economies and track the economic recovery after the global downturn of 2008-09.

Explore the index with the interactive graphic below. You can read more analysis on the Economist’s Forum. and from the FT’s economics editor Chris Giles.

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The statistical background to the index
Why the global economic recovery is in trouble - Commentary and discussion on the Economists’ Forum
Further details and background from the Brookings Institution