Sustainable consumption and production
Creating sustainable communities and a fairer world

(a) Total investment (b) social investment relative to GDP, 1990 to 2008

Total investment since:	1990		2003
Social investment since:	1990		2003

Contextual indicator

Total investment relative to GDP grew by 5 per cent in real terms between 1990 and1998,thereafter remained stable until 2006. It increased to 12 per cent in 2007 and was 8 per cent in 2008. In 2008 social investment, defined here as government investment in new buildings, vehicles and other capital expenditure for the health sector, schools, higher education, water, sewerage, rail and buses, was 1.8 per cent of GDP at current prices.
An increasing proportion of social investment now comes from the private sector. This makes the current indicator difficult to assess

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Updated: 30 July 2009

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