| Global economic projections | ||||||||
| Rank | Economic | Economic | Expected | GNP | ||||
| Sept | Mar | performance | performance | change | growth | |||
| 96 | 96 | average | 1996 1997 | (%) | 1996 | 1997 | ||
| 1996-1997 | 1996-1997 | |||||||
| 1 | 2 | Luxembourg | 82.54 | 81.86 | 83.21 | 1.66 | 2.37 | 2.71 |
| 2 | 1 | Singapore | 80.82 | 81.64 | 80 | -2 | 8.06 | 7.6 |
| 3 | 8 | Norway | 79.71 | 80.75 | 78.67 | -2.58 | 3.73 | 2.95 |
| 4 | 6 | United States | 79.1 | 80.88 | 77.31 | -4.42 | 2.42 | 2.24 |
| 5 | 3 | Switzerland | 78.72 | 78.33 | 79.11 | 0.99 | 0.69 | 1.81 |
| 6 | 4 | Netherlands | 77.13 | 74.7 | 79.56 | 6.5 | 2.61 | 2.43 |
| 7 | 12 | Australia | 73.75 | |||||