Central America vs Switzerland: Net Capital Stocks (Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing) — Value US$
Net Capital Stocks (Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing) — Value US$ over time
- Central America
- Switzerland
How they compare
Central America currently reports 85,351 million USD against 55,801 million USD in Switzerland, a difference of 29,550 million USD.
That makes Central America's figure about 1.5 times Switzerland's.
The two have swapped places 3 times across 29 shared years of data; in 1995 it was Switzerland ahead.
Central America ranks 23rd and Switzerland ranks 23rd of 29 groups.
Central America has averaged higher in every one of the 4 decades both report.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Central America | Switzerland | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 41,582 million USD | 37,809 million USD | 3,773 million USD | Central America |
| 2000s | 50,775 million USD | 40,755 million USD | 10,020 million USD | Central America |
| 2010s | 60,810 million USD | 54,199 million USD | 6,611 million USD | Central America |
| 2020s | 75,235 million USD | 55,304 million USD | 19,930 million USD | Central America |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher net capital stocks (agriculture, forestry and fishing) — value us$, Central America or Switzerland?
- Central America, at 85,351 million USD against 55,801 million USD in Switzerland as of 2023.
- What is the difference in net capital stocks (agriculture, forestry and fishing) — value us$ between Central America and Switzerland?
- 29,550 million USD, with Central America ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Central America and Switzerland?
- 29 years are reported by both, from 1995 to 2023.
- How do Central America and Switzerland rank globally for net capital stocks (agriculture, forestry and fishing) — value us$?
- Central America ranks 23rd and Switzerland ranks 23rd of 29 groups.
- Where does this data come from?
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as Net Capital Stocks (Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing) — Value US$. Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.
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About this data
As part of the FAO Agriculture Capital Stock (ACS) database, the Statistics Division of FAO publishes country-by-country data on physical investment in agriculture, forestry and fishing as measured by the System of National Accounts (SNA) concept of Gross Fixed Capital Formation (GFCF). Additional variables included in the ACS are Net and Gross Capital Stock, Consumption of Fixed Capital, the Agriculture Investment ratio, and the Gross Fixed Capital Formation Agriculture Orientation Index. The FAO Agriculture Capital Stock Database is an analytical database: whenever available, the database integrates official National Accounts data harvested from the UNSD National Accounts Main Aggregates Database (UNSD AMA) and the OECD Annual National Accounts Database (OECD ANA). The database is further supplemented by OECD Structural Analysis database (OECD STAN) and, in a few cases, data from country’s statistics websites. If the full set of official data is not available for any specific country, imputation methods are applied to obtain estimates over the complete time series. Many data points in ACS are estimated and are flagged as such; they do not represent official submissions by Member Countries. With a view of producing internationally comparable net capital stock estimates, the Perpetual Inventory Method (PIM) with a constant geometric depreciation rate is employed to impute missing data. The Perpetual Inventory Method is a well-established economic model to calculate Net Capital Stocks (NCS) and Consumption of Fixed Capital (CFC) from time series of Gross Fixed Capital Formation (GFCF). Specifically, annual measures of the NCS are obtained from cumulating historical series on physical investment flows and deducting the part of assets that are depreciated (the Consumption of Fixed Capital that occurs in every period). In order to implement the PIM, long time series on aggregate GFCF in agriculture, forestry and fishing is required.An attempt is made to rely as much as possible on National Accounts data published by the OECD and UNSD. When country data are partially or fully missing, econometric techniques to impute missing observations are employed. Depending on the pattern of data missingness for the countries, different imputation methods are applied (from among the ARIMAX, PANEL regression, and OLS approaches) for the data series from 1995 to 2022. The values of Agriculture Capital Stock related indicators for 2023, including Agriculture Investment Ratio, Agriculture Orientation Index, Net Capital Stock, Gross Fixed Capital Formation and Consumption of Fixed Capital, are estimated using the Holt-Winters (HW) method (Cipra et al., 1995). The HW method is an exponential smoothing method for forecasting the annual values of economic variables. In this context, the HW method relies on existing (historical) values of the Agriculture Capital Stock. The predicted value is an extrapolation of the historical values to the specified target date, which extends the timeline without considering seasonality in the annual series.All data series in the database are provided both in national currencies and in US dollars as well as in current prices and constant prices with base year 2015.