71o SELECTED ECONOMIC INDICATORS                                        
  ASIAN COUNTRIES                                              
  2002 - 2012                                              
                                                 
    Period   Philippines     Malaysia   Indonesia   Thailand   Singapore   India   Korea   Taiwan   China   Vietnam  
  a January e end-January i January-March  
  b October-November f end-May  
  c July-August g end-November  
  d October h January-March  
   
1 GDP at 1990 for all countries except for Thailand (1988=100), China (1995=100), and Vietnam (1994=100); until period 2000 for Malaysia and Indonesia (2000=100);    
  until period 2005 for India, Korea, and Singapore (2005=100); and until period 2006 for Taiwan (2006=100).  
  The National Statistical Coordination Board (NSCB) has adopted the terminology Gross National Income (GNI) in place of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) as one of the features of the revised (based 2000)  
  Philippine System of National Accounts (PSNA) for the period 1998-2010 based on the recommendation of the 1993 System of National Accounts.   
2 Baseyear for all countries is 2005 except for China (1978=100), Taiwan (2006=100). For Philippines, figures from 2000-2006 are at base year 2000; 2007 onwards at base year 2006.  
3 For Philippines, based on new BOP methodology starting 1999  
  Growth rates on exports and imports computed from 1997 to 1999 were based on NSO foreign trade statistics data  
4 Net FDI flows refer to non-resident placements less non-resident withdrawals of equity, reinvested earnings and other capital.  
5 Net FPI flows refer to non-resident placements less non-resident withdrawals of equity securities and debt securities.  
6 Source of data for external debt level of Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia & Korea: Asia Regional Integration Center  
  Source of data for Singapore & Taiwan: Key Indicators of Developing Asian and Pacific Countries  
  Note:    Singapore's external debt coverage excludes banks' overseas interbank loans, FDI non-equity liabilities, debt securities and non-FDI trade credits.  
  Effective from Q1 2008, the external debt of Malaysia has been redefined to treat entities in Labuan IBFC as residents.  
  Philippine data were revised to reflect new treatment of Hybrid Tier 1 accounts beginning March 2006.  
7 Revised data for Debt Service Burden, except Philippines Source of data: Key Indicators of Developing Asian and Pacific Countries, 1998  
  Debt Service includes principal repayments and interest on long term debt  
  Refer to the ratio of debt service to Export of Goods and Services  
8 Import cover refers to number of months of average imports of goods  
9 For the Philippines, data from 1997 to 2001 were based on the Monetary Survey (MS) which is a consolidation of the balance sheets of deposit generating financial institutions, namely: the Monetary  
  Authorities (basically the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas or the BSP) and deposit money banks (DMBs) which are basically commercial banks and rural banks  accepting demand deposits.   
  Data from 2001 onward are based on the Depository Corporations Survey (DCS) which is an expanded version of the Monetary Survey. The DCS is a consolidation of the balance sheets of all the deposit  
  generating financial institutions namely: the Monetary Authorities or the BSP and Other Depository Corporations (ODCs)   
  consisting of commercial banks, thrift banks, rural banks, non-stock savings and loan associations and non-banks with quasi-banking functions.  
  For China, Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand, data are based on the Depository Corporations Survey.   
  For India, Korea, Singapore, Sri Lanka, based on the Monetary Survey  
10 Treasury-Bill Rates (91 Days) for Philippines & Malaysia: Prime Rates (Short-Term) for Thailand; Beneficial Certificates Yield (91 Days) for Korea;   
  Bank Indonesia Certificate Rate (Simple Average)  
* Based on old definition of unemployment  
** Starting with January 2007 LFS round, the population projection based on the 2000 Census of Population was adopted to generate the labor force statistics  
   per NSCB Resolution No. 1 series of 2005.  For 2006 data, employment indicators were recalculated using the population projection based on the 2000 Census of Population.  
*** Based on NSO press release; year-on-year growth rate was computed using the revised January and February 2007 imports data  
  n.a. - not available  
  n.c. - not comparable  
p Preliminary  
r Revised  
   
   
  Sources of data:   
International Financial Statistics Bank for International Settlements Bank of Thailand  
Key Indicators of Developing Asian and Pacific Countries The Singapore Department of Statistics Bank Negara Malaysia  
CEIC Data Limited                      Ministry of Finance, India Bank of Korea    
ADB Key Indicators of Developing Asian and Pacific Countries Reserve Bank of India  
ADB Asia Regional Integration Center CIA- The World Factbook