Measuring Macroeconomic Performance (AQA A Level Economics): Exam Questions

Using the data in Extract A (Figure 1), calculate the mean unemployment rate for the UK from 2007–08 to 2017–18.  Give your answer to one decimal place.

Using the data in Extract A, calculate the GDP per capita for Costa Rica in 2015/2016 to the nearest dollar.

Explain how the data in Extract A indicate living standards may be higher in the UK than in the USA.

Extract A

Explain how the data in Extract A (Figure 2) show that the UK has had poor real wage growth since 2008.

Explain why the data in Extract A (Figure 1) show that living standards in India have improved.

Inflation resulted in a basket of goods and services that cost £100 in 2015 costing £112 in 2021. Using this information and the data in Extract A (Table 1), calculate the percentage increase in average university rent, in real terms, between 2015 and 2021.

Give your answer to one decimal place.

Using the data in Extract A, calculate the ratio of the UK’s GDP per hour worked to $1 of GDP per hour worked in Hungary.

Give your answer to two decimal places

Using the data in Extract D, calculate the percentage change in Vietnam’s GDP per capita between the years 2010 and 2021.

Give your answer to one decimal place

Using the data in Extract A (Table 1), calculate the index of total car sales in 2021 if, in the base year, total car sales were 1.25 million.

Give your answer to two decimal places

Using the data in Extract A (Figure 1), calculate the difference between Ireland’s corporation tax rate and the mean corporation tax rate of the other five European nations.

Give your answer to one decimal place

Explain how the data in Extract A (Figure 2), show that Ireland’s economy performed better than the economies of France and Spain in 2021.

Using the data in Extract D (Figure 3), calculate the value of bonds that had been purchased by November 2020 for every £1 worth of bonds purchased by November 2009.

Give your answer in £s and to two decimal places

Using the data in Extract A (Figure 1), if 2015 is the base year, calculate the index of Egypt’s real GDP in 2018.

Give your answer to one decimal place

Using the data in Extract A (Figure 1), calculate the mean annual yield on long-term bonds in Greece over the years shown. Give your answer to one decimal place

Using the data in Extract D (Figure 4), calculate South Korea’s rate of inflation for the year ended 31 December 2019. Give your answer to two decimal places