This feature reflects the growing importance of China and emerging east Asia more generally – together, their share of global GDP has trebled to almost 18 per cent since the end of the 1970s.
2  BIS Review 60/2008  Graph 1  Trade Share of Australian GDP* Percentage %  %  45  45  40  40  35  35  30  30  25  25  20 1960  1970  1980  1990  20 2010  2000  * Exports plus imports in ratio to GDP.