Total spending on education in 2011 was 6 percent of GDP.

Private activity now accounts for 82 percent of its GDP.

They estimated this would raise about $160 billion a year, or 1 percent of GDP.

The overall fiscal rate was 38.5 percent of GDP in 2002.

Federal spending today is about 24 percent of GDP, well over the historical average and far more than we can afford as a nation.

Total health care expenditures were estimated at 3.7 percent of GDP.

Put another way, debt will come to exceed 185 percent of GDP.

In 2002 the fiscal deficit was 32 percent of GDP.

By 1936, the national debt had increased to $33.7 billion or approximately 40 percent of GDP.

The 2002 estimate for military expenditures as percent of GDP was 4.6%.