I had been hoping that by now our clever system to automate these figures on a daily basis would be ready but unfortunately we're not quite there yet (basically Json has been busy in RL!). So I've had to continue with my manual collation of data. Whilst I took this snap shot 25 days ago I've just not had the time to write up my report. I've also got a report to do for May the 15th which I hope to do soon.

Changes are from April 1st so it's a month-end report in effect.

Due to it dropping out of the top 20 this is also the last time I'll be including Ireland in my report. Hungary will take their spot.

POPULATION
1 Sweden 2463
2 Indonesia 1767
3 Spain 1488
4 Italy 1110
5 Norway 926
6 Romania 878
7 USA 754
8 UK 752
9 Pakistan 714
10 Austria 690
11 Iran 591
12 Portugal 531
13 Hungary 424
14 Turkey 400
15 Brazil 376
16 Canada 317
17 Venezuela 288
18 Netherlands 279
19 Argentina 248
20 France 230
21 Ireland 221

POPULATION CHANGE
1 Austria 176.0%
2 Italy 118.5%
3 Spain 75.7%
4 Indonesia 51.5%
5 Romania 48.8%
6 Iran 42.4%
7 Venezuela 37.8%
8 Canada 37.2%
9 Argentina 28.5%
10 USA 27.4%
11 Ireland 23.5%
12 UK 14.5%
13 Netherlands 9.0%
14 Pakistan 6.6%
15 Brazil 0.5%
16 Turkey -5.9%
17 Sweden -6.0%
18 Norway -13.1%
19 Portugal -20.6%
20 France -20.7%

France and Portugal - two long established coutnries in ER - seem to be losing population fast. These losses may be costly as they are often highly skilled workers and soldiers, can they be replaced? Austria and Italy continue to boom. Spain and Indoneisa also show strong population growth, will they overtake Sweden as the largest country?

WORKFORCE
1 Sweden 1595
2 Indonesia 1166
3 Spain 928
4 Italy 779
5 Norway 740
6 Romania 584
7 Pakistan 509
8 Austria 498
9 UK 481
10 USA 384
11 Portugal 358
12 Iran 338
13 Turkey 286
14 Hungary 275
15 Brazil 246
16 Venezuela 221
17 Canada 182
18 Netherlands 167
19 Argentina 160
20 France 144
21 Ireland 143

Sweden looks stronger when you look at it's workforce. USA and Iran seem to be the countries with the biggest unemployment problems.

WORKFORCE CHANGE
1 Austria 243.4%
2 Italy 189.6%
3 Spain 75.1%
4 Romania 66.4%
5 Argentina 58.4%
6 Venezuela 53.5%
7 Indonesia 53.4%
8 Canada 34.8%
9 USA 32.0%
10 Ireland 26.5%
11 UK 19.7%
12 Iran 19.0%
13 Brazil 15.5%
14 Turkey 14.4%
15 Norway 10.0%
16 Netherlands 8.4%
17 Sweden 7.4%
18 Portugal 0.3%
19 Pakistan -3.2%
20 France -15.8%

The global workforce change figures do look better than the population figures as only 2 countries have seen a fall in overall workforce over the last month.

GDP
1 Sweden 12087.55
2 Indonesia 7992.35
3 Spain 5125.71
4 Norway 4766.42
5 Italy 4053.42
6 Iran 3929.39
7 Romania 3646.61
8 UK 3393.26
9 Austria 2559.89
10 Pakistan 2467.34
11 Portugal 2419.51
12 USA 2252.1
13 Turkey 2214.75
14 Hungary 1619.96
15 France 1419.22
16 Canada 1403.89
17 Brazil 1354.21
18 Venezuela 1284.07
19 Netherlands 968.68
20 Argentina 853.12
21 Ireland 712.25

Indonesia's economy continues to make big strides forwards. The UK's economy flags a bit and Italy starts to show it's population boom has also made it one of the economic big boys. Iran's economy also continues to look strong.

GDP GROWTH
1 Austria 699.7%
2 Italy 237.1%
3 Iran 177.6%
4 Indonesia 172.4%
5 Romania 127.8%
6 Venezuela 119.3%
7 Canada 101.8%
8 Turkey 88.0%
9 Argentina 42.6%
10 Spain 41.1%
11 Brazil 40.1%
12 Norway 33.6%
13 Netherlands 32.6%
14 Sweden 32.1%
15 Ireland 27.4%
16 USA 27.1%
17 Portugal 18.5%
18 UK 15.9%
19 France 6.8%
20 Pakistan -0.4%

All economies grew in April except for Pakistan's, but it's difficult to draw too many conclusions about that because Pakistan's economy is not run by free market principles entirely and they have a huge stock of goods. What is surprising is the poor growth of the French, British and Portuguese economies. The UK's slump is mainly due to lower Gold investments as there is a high recycle rate of companies meaning less needs to be invested in new company creation.

Iran's massive growth is down mainly to huge investments of gold in the economy. More than 80% of their GDP is from Gold invesment. It's a similar story with Italy, Spain and Indonesia where the gold gained from invites has been pumped into the economy.

RER
1 Ireland 6.72
2 Brazil 11.44
3 Iran 19.63
4 Sweden 21.1
5 UK 23.71
6 Netherlands 25.86
7 Norway 26.88
8 Indonesia 27.66
9 France 33.37
10 Spain 33.55
11 Romania 35.3
12 Turkey 40.72
13 Canada 41.69
14 Pakistan 44.86
15 Venezuela 47.37
16 Italy 50.15
17 Hungary 64.57
18 Argentina 69.34
19 USA 69.53
20 Austria 81.07
21 Portugal 81.22

Ireland continues to have the lowest prices whereas for the major economies this is Sweden followed by the UK. Portugals long standing policy of cheap PTE continues to keep it's commodity prices high.

RER CHANGE (Inflation)
1 USA 220.0%
2 Spain 209.5%
3 Argentina 85.5%
4 Sweden 73.9%
5 Romania 63.5%
6 Canada 62.8%
7 Norway 47.4%
8 Turkey 36.0%
9 Portugal 30.1%
10 UK 29.7%
11 Italy 15.9%
12 Venezuela 15.1%
13 Pakistan 11.1%
14 France 5.8%
15 Austria 2.1%
16 Netherlands -6.0%
17 Iran -8.8%
18 Indonesia -20.2%
19 Ireland -21.9%
20 Brazil -52.1%

Not surprisingly, the USA saw the highest inflation in April due to the reprocussions of the USA-Canada war. Spain also saw phenominal inflation due the government devaluing ESP by half in an effort to try and cause trouble for foreign exporters to Spain. By contrast, countries that have NOT intervened in their currency markets (notably Iran, the Netherlands and Indonesia) have seen DEFLATION.

GDP/C
1 Iran 6.65
2 France 6.17
3 Turkey 5.54
4 Norway 5.15
5 Sweden 4.91
6 Portugal 4.56
7 Indonesia 4.52
8 UK 4.51
9 Venezuela 4.46
10 Canada 4.43
11 Romania 4.15
12 Hungary 3.82
13 Austria 3.71
14 Italy 3.65
15 Brazil 3.6
16 Netherlands 3.47
17 Pakistan 3.46
18 Spain 3.44
19 Argentina 3.44
20 Ireland 3.22
21 USA 2.99

Iran comes top here due to the high ratio of Gold invesments per citizen, but where is all this Gold coming from and is it sustainable in the long run? France's GDP/C stays high mainly due to it's drop in population but Turkey continues to put in a good showing proving that it's last appearance high in the GDP/C rankings was not a fluke. The UK's drops several spots to 8 main due to a drop off in it's GDP. The USA is bottom of pile once more - back to where it was in Jan-Feb. But the biggest surprise is Spain, that was consistently near the top if not at number 1 - but this is mainly due to it's big population surge.

GDP/Worker
1 Iran 11.63
2 France 9.86
3 Turkey 7.74
4 Canada 7.71
5 Sweden 7.58
6 UK 7.05
7 Indonesia 6.85
8 Portugal 6.76
9 Norway 6.44
10 Romania 6.24
11 Hungary 5.89
12 USA 5.86
13 Venezuela 5.81
14 Netherlands 5.8
15 Spain 5.52
16 Brazil 5.5
17 Argentina 5.33
18 Italy 5.2
19 Austria 5.14
20 Ireland 4.98
21 Pakistan 4.85

Looking at GDP/C Iran's position looks even more impressive and the USA's doesn't look half as bad. Interestingly - Pakistan actually comes bottom of the pile and Italy and Austria also put in a bad show, which is not a big surprise considering their relatively young population. Canada is also looking good at 4th.

So that's it for now. I'll be doing a special report when I can comparing the levels of Gold investment country to country to see which economies are actually SELLING the most rather than just pumping Gold into their economy.