Here are the new growth forecasts for selected regions and countries in the IMF’s latest World Economic Outlook report, with the change in percentage points from the January outlook in parentheses.
Country 2015 2016
World 3.5 (0.0) 3.8 (0.1)
Advanced economies 2.4 (0.0) 2.4 (0.0)
United States 3.1 (-0.5) 3.1 (-0.2)
Eurozone 1.5 (0.3) 1.6 (0.2)
Germany 1.6 (0.3) 1.7 (0.2)
France 1.2 (0.3) 1.5 (0.2)
Italy 0.5 (0.1) 1.1 (0.3)
Spain 2.5 (0.5) 2.0 (0.2)
Japan 1.0 (0.4) 1.2 (0.4)
Britain 2.7 (0.0) 2.3 (-0.1)
Canada 2.2 (-0.1) 2.0 (-0.1)
Emerging & developing economies
4.3 (0.0) 4.7 (0.0)
Commonwealth of Independent States
-2.6 (-1.2) 0.3 (-0.5)
Russia -3.8 (-0.8) -1.1 (-0.1)
Emerging & developing Asia 6.6 (0.2) 6.4 (0.2)
China 6.8 (0.0) 6.3 (0.0)
India 7.5 (1.2) 7.5 (1.0)
Latin America & Caribbean 0.9 (-0.4) 2.0 (-0.3)
Brazil -1.0 (-1.3) 1.0 (-0.5)
Mexico 3.0 (-0.2) 3.3 (-0.2)
Middle East, North Africa,
Afghanistan, Pakistan 2.9 (-0.4) 3.8 (-0.1)
Sub-Saharan Africa 4.5 (-0.4) 5.1 (-0.1)
South Africa 2.0 (-0.1) 2.1 (-0.4)
