China)  10.67 7.25  23.96 11.93  124.7 64.6  (2)  In contrast, the developed countries of the OECD area have grown less rapidly than the world average and their share of world output has fallen from 57.5 per cent in 1980 to 52.4 per cent in 2001.
Within the group of developed countries, only three have managed to increase their share of world output - the United States, Australia and Ireland.