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Investment by institutional sectors

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The percentage of GDP that is used for gross investment in the economy. It includes investment in the acquisition, improvement of, or additions to fixed assets held by government, business and household sectors.

Data host: 

Eurostat

Unit of Measurement: 

Percentage (%) of Gross Domestic Product (GDP)

Link to Data: 

http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/tgm/table.do [2]

Type of Indicator source: 

  • Statistical office [3]

Geographical Coverage: 

Austria
Belgium
Bulgaria
Switzerland
Cyprus
Czech Republic
Germany
Denmark
Estonia
Spain
Finland
France
Croatia
Hungary
Ireland
Iceland
Italy
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Latvia
Malta
Netherlands
Norway
Poland
Portugal
Romania
Sweden
Slovenia
Slovakia

Geographical Level: 

  • National [4]

Same/similar indicators appears in the following sets: 

  • EU Structural Indicators [5]

Methodological transparency: 

  • Complete methodology available [6]
Indicator relation: 
Indicator: 
Foreign direct investment, net inflows (% of GDP) [7]
Type of relation: 
Other arithmetical connection
Indicator: 
Green investments (to capture potential source of transformational change) [8]
Type of relation: 
Other arithmetical connection
Indicator: 
Spending for tomorrow: capital investment (a) total; (b) business; (c) government; (d) intangible investment [9]
Type of relation: 
Other arithmetical connection
Indicator: 
Real per capita net investment in produced capital [10]
Type of relation: 
Other arithmetical connection

Temporal Coverage: 

1995 to 2014

Frequency of Updates: 

  • annualy [11]

Indicator developer: 

Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union

Link to Methodology: 

Annual sector accounts (nasa) Reference Metadata in ESMS [12]

Aggregation level of indicator: 

  • Aggregate [13]

Data quality assesment: 

  • Assessed by statistical office [14]

Publishing delay: 

  • 1-3 years [15]

Link to data quality assessment: 

Annual sector accounts (nasa) Reference Metadata in ESMS [12]

Contribution to the green economy: 

An increase in this indicator suggests that a greater proportion of GDP is being invested in gross fixed capital formation by the public and private sectors. An increase might be perceived as being conducive to a green economy, since it suggests investmen

Cost of accessing data: 

  • free of charge [16]
Potential misinterpretation: 
Are several institutional sectors investing, but these investments are not green?
Related Indicator: 
Green investments (to capture potential source of transformational change) [8]
Potential misinterpretation: 
Are several institutional sectors investing, but so is material consumption?
Related Indicator: 
Material consumption [17]
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The NETGREEN project has received funding from the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme for Research, Technological Development and Demonstration under the Grant Agreement no. 603877.

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Links
[1] https://measuring-progress.eu/coll-del/nojs/1057
[2] http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/tgm/table.do?tab=table&plugin=1&language=en&pcode=tsdec210
[3] https://measuring-progress.eu/taxonomy/term/45
[4] https://measuring-progress.eu/taxonomy/term/33
[5] https://measuring-progress.eu/taxonomy/term/70
[6] https://measuring-progress.eu/taxonomy/term/34
[7] https://measuring-progress.eu/foreign-direct-investment-net-inflows-gdp
[8] https://measuring-progress.eu/green-investments-capture-potential-source-transformational-change
[9] https://measuring-progress.eu/spending-tomorrow-capital-investment-total-b-business-c-government-d-intangible-investment
[10] https://measuring-progress.eu/real-capita-net-investment-produced-capital
[11] https://measuring-progress.eu/taxonomy/term/17
[12] http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/cache/metadata/en/nasa_esms.htm
[13] https://measuring-progress.eu/taxonomy/term/28
[14] https://measuring-progress.eu/taxonomy/term/38
[15] https://measuring-progress.eu/taxonomy/term/25
[16] https://measuring-progress.eu/taxonomy/term/9
[17] https://measuring-progress.eu/material-consumption