The International Monetary Fund has slightly lowered its forecast for world economic growth this year and next year, reflecting slowing activity in the emerging and developing economies.
Here are the IMF's new predictions for annual gross domestic product growth in 2014 and 2015, with the change in percentage points from its January 2013 World Economic Outlook update in brackets.
Country/region 2014 2015
World 3.6% (-0.1%) 3.9% (-0.1%)
Advanced economies 2.2% (0.0%) 2.3% (0.0%)
United States 2.8% (0.0%) 3.0% (0.0%)
Euro zone 1.2% (0.1%) 1.5% (0.1%)
Germany 1.7% (0.2%) 1.6% (0.1%)
France 1.0% (0.1%) 1.5% (0.0%)
Italy 0.6% (0.0%) 1.1% (0.0%)
Spain 0.9% (0.3%) 1.0% (0.2%)
Japan 1.4% (-0.3%) 1.0% (0.0%)
Britain 2.9% (0.4%) 2.5% (0.3%)
Canada 2.3% (0.1%) 2.4% (0.0%)
Emerging/developing 4.9% (-0.2%) 5.3% (-0.1%)
Central & Eastern Europe 2.4% (-0.5%) 2.9% (-0.2%)
Russia 1.3% (-0.6%) 2.3% (-0.2%)
Emerging & developing Asia 6.7% (0.0%) 6.8% (0.0%)
China 7.5% (0.0%) 7.3% (0.0%)
India 5.4% (0.0%) 6.4% (0.0%)
Latin America & Caribbean 2.5% (-0.4%) 3.0% (-0.3%)
Brazil 1.8% (-0.5%) 2.7% (-0.2%)
Mexico 3.0% (0.0%) 3.5% (0.0%)
Middle East, North Africa,
Afghanistan, Pakistan 3.2% (-0.1%) 4.4% (-0.4%)
