Expenditure on the health service is a significant item within the national budget, representing about 5 per cent of gross domestic product (Table 7.1).

Investment was sharply down and was estimated to represent only 9 per cent of gross domestic product.

Government debt and contingent liabilities are running at 91.2 per cent of gross national product.

This is despite the engineering sector making up 19.6 per cent of gross domestic product.

Yet even in its present state it accounted in 1987, directly or indirectly, for 600,000 jobs and 2 per cent of gross domestic product.

The latter is a growing sector, that now accounts for 11 per cent of gross domestic product.

During this period, total revenues of these agencies amounted to between 40 and 46 per cent of adjusted social product.

It does not concern us only in the sense of increasing aid to 0.7 per cent of gross domestic product by 2015.

The average spent in Europe on such commitments is 0.4 per cent of gross domestic product.

The UK contributed £8.5 billion last year, which is 0.56 per cent of gross domestic product.