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As the second largest budget item - 17% of GDP and fast approaching 20%, it would move the U.S. a long way toward economic recovery.
According to the World Bank, China spends only 5.7% of its GDP on these items and other forms of social protection, such as payments to support the very poor.
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However, when the total number of published items is related to the GDP, the 3.3 fold differences between the top-ranked US (1,893,800 published items) and the second ranked Japan (573,473) completely changes and the US and Japan are listed at position 14 and 17, respectively, while countries such as Israel, Sweden and the Eastern European country Hungary lead the field.
In April, Item said the UK's GDP would grow by 2.6% in 2017 – a figure it now expects to be barely 0.4%.
