Economics Asked by Anthony S. on May 13, 2021
Essentially I have two different datasets that I’m trying to consolidate. One set of data comes from the World Bank Databank, and is a set of historical GDP PPP values for all countries expressed in 2011 international $. The other dataset is a set of forecasted GDP values for all countries, and is expressed in GDP PPP expressed in 2005 international $. I would like to convert one of these sets into the same units as the other.
Is this possible? If so, how would I do this?
The latter dataset has some historical values, so I’ve tried dividing the 2011$ by the 2005$ for different countries, but have found that the ratio is different in all cases.
Eg.
China – GDP 2008 in $2005: 7,566.755billion; GDP 2005 in $2011: 10,437.906billion – Ratio: 1.38
Canada – GDP 2008 in $2005: 1,197.757billion; GDP 2005 in $2011: 1,383.398billion – Ratio: 1.15
I do not know where you got the forecasts for GDP, but it is very likely they do not include a forecast on how PPPs are changing. As such, a computation of the rate of growth of GDP in 2005 PPP is a mreasure of real GDP growth.
Hence, what you want to do is to concatenate two series. For this, take the latest GDP level of each country from the World Bank series in 2011 prices, and extend it using the forecasted GDP growth rates in 2005 prices, calculated from your database of forecast. Naturally you only want to forecast GDP for the years that are missing in the World Bank database. The reliability of this exercise depends on how outdated the forecasts from the 2005 database are.
Answered by luchonacho on May 13, 2021
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