Sentences with phrase «third of advanced economies»

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America's road network, which includes its bridges, was ranked third among the largest advanced economies by company executives, behind Japan and France but superior to those of Germany, Britain, Canada and Italy, according to the World Economic Forum's latest global competitiveness report.

The size of Canada's economy was around $ 2 trillion dollars at the end of 2016, and according to the latest GDP numbers released by Statistics Canada, the Canadian economy expanded at 0.6 percent in May 2017 compared to the previous month, largely led by advances in the oil, gas and mining industries, which accounted for around two - thirds of the country's GDP growth.

Knowledge and technology - intensive industries — in which S&T advances are key inputs — are a major part of the global economy, comprising nearly one - third of world gross domestic product (GDP).

Nearly two - thirds of today's workers need advanced reading, writing, mathematical and critical - thinking skills to compete in the global economy, compared to 15 percent of workers 20 years ago, according to Achieve, a nonprofit educational reform group.

In its 2012 World of Work Report the ILO provides some stark figures: «around 50 million jobs are missing relative to the pre-crisis situation», and «[y] outh unemployment rates have increased in about 80 percent of advanced economies and in two - thirds of the developing economies».