China vs Italy: Economic Indicators Comparison

China with a GDP of $13.6T ranked the 2nd largest economy in the world, while Italy ranked 8th with $2.1T. By GDP 5-years average growth and GDP per capita, China and Italy ranked 12th vs 154th and 76th vs 29th, respectively.

Gross Domestic Product & Income

Stat	China	Italy
GDP	$13.6T	$2.1T
GDP growth, 1 year	6.6%	0.9%
GDP growth, 5-years average	6.9%	0.9%
Population	1.4B	60.3M
GDP per capita	$9.8k	$34k
GDP per capita growth	6.08%	0.95%
Purchasing Power Parity conversion factor	3.54	0.7
Price level ratio of PPP conversion factor GDP to market exchange rate	0.54	0.82
GDP per capita, PPP adjusted	$18k	$40k
GNI, Atlas method	$13.2T	$2T
GNI per capita	$9.5k	$34k
GNI, PPP adjusted	$25.3T	$2.6T
GNI per capita, PPP adjusted	$18k	$42k

Financial system and Human development

Stat	China	Italy
Income Tax Rate	45%	43%
Corporate Tax Rate	25%	27.5%
Inflation, consumer prices	2.1%	1.2%
Inflation, GDP deflator	2.9%	0.9%
Unemployment	4.4%	10.2%
Economic Freedom Index	59.5	63.8
Personal Freedom Index	6	8.79
Human Freedom Index	6.11	8.01
Property Rights Index	60.9	75.4
Judical Effectiveness Index	76.3	51.3
Business Freedom Index	76.8	70.4
Fiscal Health Index	67.5	71.1
Labor Freedom Index	64.4	50.9
Investment Freedom Index	20	80
Financial Freedom Index	20	50
Trade Freedom Index	72.4	86.4
Monetary Freedom Index	71.1	83.2
Government Spending Index	67.9	28.5
Tax Burden Index	70.4	56
Government Integrity Index	46	62.2
Corruption Perceptions Index	39	52
Life expectancy at birth, years	76.5	83.2
Suicide mortality rate, per 100,000 people	9.7	8.2
Mortality caused by road traffic injury, per 100,000 people	18.2	5.6
Intentional homicides, per 100,000 people	0.6	0.7
International tourism, number of arrivals	62.9M	61.6M

Government debt & reserves

Stat	China	Italy
Central government debt, % of GDP	50.5%	132.1%
External debt stocks, % of GNI	14.5%	N/A
External debt stocks	$2T	N/A
Short-term debt, % of total reserves	38.5%	N/A
Total debt service, % of exports and primary income	8.2%	N/A
Adjusted net savings including particulate emission damage, % of GNI	20.1%	6%
Gross savings, % of GDP	46.3%	20.8%
Gross capital formation, % of GDP	44.1%	18.2%
Total reserves including gold	$3.2T	$152.4B
Foreign direct investment net inflows	$203.5B	$39.6B

Exports, imports and economic structure

Stat	China	Italy
Exports of goods and services, % of GDP	19.5%	31.5%
Imports of goods and services, % of GDP	18.7%	29%
Current account balance (balance of payments)	$49.1B	$53.8B
Revenue excluding grants, % of GDP	15.8%	37.7%
Grants excluding technical cooperation, BoP	$191.6M	N/A
Personal remittances received	$24.3B	$9.9B
Industry including construction value added, % of GDP	40.7%	21.4%
Agriculture, forestry and fishing value added, % of GDP	7.2%	1.9%
Charges for the use of intellectual property, payments BoP	$35.8B	$5.1B
Charges for the use of intellectual property, receipts BoP	$5.6B	$4.9B
Expense, % of GDP	N/A	41.3%
Government Expenditure, % of GDP	32.7%	48.8%