The country's median age of 25 is in sharp contrast to the average age of its cabinet ministers, 65, which is a far bigger gap than in any other country – Brazil and China are next with age gaps just under 30 years.
A far bigger gap exists between generations in Qatar and other conservative Arab countries than in the West.
The far greater gap between India and China is in the provision of essential public services — a failing that depresses living standards and is a persistent drag on growth.
But the promise looks empty.Figures leaked to Le Monde suggest the finance ministry has secretly predicted a far worse gap: a 4.1% deficit this year, followed by 4% next.
Its benchmark interest rate is already as low as it can feasibly go, and a further round of "quantitative easing" would stretch too far the gap between the bank's objective of low inflation and its actions.
Curators have also been aiming to close a far bigger gap in the museum's holdings by adding work by African-American artists from the 1960s, '70s and '80s.
For all George Osborne's hi-vis posturing about his sham "northern powerhouse", the latest figures from the Centre for Cities show how far the gap between the south and the rest has widened.
Gene Sperling, a top economic adviser in the Clinton administration who now advises Mr. Kerry, said that if the same methodology was applied to Mr. Bush, he would face a far greater gap.
But this year's projected growth would be only 1.2 percentage points higher than the budgeted increase in overall central government spending, a far narrower gap than in previous years.In the absence of a far more detailed breakdown of China's military budget, the Americans will not be very impressed.
It's a far smaller gap this time, as he leads Verdi's dark masterpiece and an experienced cast that includes Barbara Frittoli, Anna Smirnova, Ramón Vargas, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Eric Halfvarson and Ferruccio Furlanetto, who scored a personal coup as Philip II when Nicholas Hytner's production was new in 2010.
