National Economy

4. Being out of work when you want a job.
6. The primary goods or services that a country sells to other countries.
8. The way a nation is politically organized. How people get power and how they exercise power.
11. The degree of wealth and material comfort available to a person or community.

1. A general rise in prices often caused when the government prints too much money.
2. Also known as mean income. It is calculated by summing up all individual incomes in a group and then dividing that total by the number of people in the group.
3. The percentage of a population, typically adults aged 15 and over, who can read and write. It's a key indicator of a country's education level and development.
5. The number of people living in a specific area such as a state or country.
7. The average number of years a person can expect to live, based on current mortality rates and other relevant factors for a specific population or region. It's a key indicator of a region's socio-economic development.
9. A measure of the cost of a “typical” assortment of goods and services, used to calculate the rate of inflation. The change in this consumer prices index over a year is the inflation rate.
10. Gross Domestic Product. The main measure of an economy’s size. GDP is calculated from the market value of all the finished goods and services within a country’s borders over a set period of time.