Globalization FAQ

Charts and Tables

U.S. Foreign Trade


This section now has its own table of contents page: see charts and tables about U.S. Foreign Trade.

Capital Flows & Foreign Direct Investment
  1. Cumulative foreign direct investment position of the United States, by country or region of investment, 1997
  2. Foreign holdings of U.S. federal debt, 1975-97
  3. The ownership of gross U.S. debt in December 1997
20+ more charts and tables forthcoming

U.S. Domestic Data

  1. The U.S. manufacturing sector, 1947-1996
  2. The impact of international trade on the size of the U.S. manufacturing sector, 1970-1996
  3. The impact of international trade on employment in the U.S. manufacturing sector, 1970-1996
  4. Wages and productivity, 1960-1996
  5. Average hourly earnings in the U.S., by private industry sector, from The Statistical Abstract of the United States, 1997.
  6. Average hourly earnings for American production workers in selected industries
  7. The use of workers, with less than high school diploma in trade-affected and non-trade-affected U.S. industries
  8. Median pay of full-time American workers with less than high school diploma, as a share of pay received by workers with some college education

International Data

  1. Growth rates of per capita GDP in the OECD during the 1980s and 1990s [still in tabular format; chart forthcoming]
  2. Wages at foreign-owned manufacturing operations located in selected OECD countries
  3. Average hourly compensation costs in manufacturing for selected OECD countries
  4. Total imports of advanced industrial democracies broken down according to the income level of the exporting countries
  5. Living standards and openness to international trade in developing countries
  6. Agricultural subsidies in selected OECD countries [filched from the OECD Observer, April/May 1997]
  7. Comparison of cumulative growth in per capita GDP of the four original East Asian tigers, 1953-1992 [still in tabular format; chart forthcoming]
  8. Cumulative growth of per capita GDP of Taiwan and South Korea, 1965-1992 [still in tabular format; chart forthcoming]
  9. A comparison of the growth rates of per capita GNP by region, 1965-90 [a link to the World Bank]
  10. Income distribution in East Asia compared with selected non-Asian countries [a link to the World Bank]
  11. Rates of infant mortality in East Asia compared with selected non-Asian countries [a link to the World Bank]
  12. Hourly compensation of Mexican workers, 1965-1998, as a share of U.S. hourly compensation
  13. The Chilean business cycle, 1961-1992
Note: All charts and tables are original to me, unless otherwise noted.
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