Heads of state, policymakers, economists, chief executives and assorted billionaires are gathering in the Swiss Alpine resort of Davos for the 43rd annual meeting of the World Economic Forum.

Keynote speakers include British prime minister David Cameron, German chancellor Angela Merkel and Russian prime minister Dmitry Medvedev – and you can see the full list of attendees here.

George Osborne is due in Davos this week, as the UK publishes its fourth-quarter GDP figures on Friday. Economists are expecting more bad news for the chancellor – and a quarter of negative growth at the end of 2012, followed by another in the first three months of this year, would plunge Britain into a triple-dip recession.

The line chart above shows World Bank estimates of annual GDP growth (at market prices based on constant local currency) for the 34 members of the OECD and the 'Brics' – Brazil, Russia, China, India and South Africa. China came out top in 2011 with 9.3% growth, with India at 6.9%. The US (1.7%) and UK (0.8%) were towards the bottom of the pack, while Greece was out on its own at the bottom with -7.1%.

In the runup to Davos, the WEF published its annual Global Risks report – highlighting three big dangers cited by a panel of 1,000 experts: government debt, severe income disparities and rising greenhouse gas emissions.

The bar chart above shows government debt as a percentage of GDP for selected countries. Fuller World Bank data for the OECD and Brics is available in the table below.

The Global Risks report also highlighted inequality and widening income gaps.

The chart above shows inequality as measured by the Gini coefficient for the 34 OECD countries (Source: OECD) and the five Brics (Source: World Bank). The higher the score, the more unequal the economy. A coefficient above 0.4 is generally regarded as the warning level for dangerous levels of inequality.

The WEF report was also concerned that governments were so caught up with trying to deal with economic problems that they were not properly addressing the long-term threat of climate change.

"Continued stress on the global economic system is positioned to absorb the attention of leaders for the foreseeable future," the report said. "Meanwhile, the Earth's environmental system is simultaneously coming under increasing stress. Future simultaneous shocks to both systems could trigger the 'perfect global storm' with potentially insurmountable consequences."

The map above shows CO2 emissions per capita for 2009, from the World Bank.

Our final key dataset is unemployment. Eurozone unemployment hit a fresh record of 11.8% at the end of 2012 – with more than 26 million people looking for work across the European Union as a whole, Eurostat said.

The chart above shows how the unemployment rate has changed over four years for selected EU countries and the US. Again, more complete data is available in the table below.

Country Emissions (tonnes per capita) Unemployment rate (%) GDP growth (%) Government debt (% of GDP) Gini coefficient Australia 18.23 5.20 1.91 29.32 0.34 Austria 7.45 4.40 2.70 74.04 0.26 Belgium 9.60 8.30 1.78 91.40 0.26 Brazil 1.90 8.30 2.73 52.21 0.55 Canada 15.24 8.00 2.46 52.63 0.32 Chile 3.94 8.10 5.99 0.49 China 5.77 4.30 9.30 0.47 Czech Republic 10.31 7.30 1.89 34.92 0.26 Denmark 8.27 7.40 1.10 43.95 0.25 Estonia 11.90 16.90 8.28 9.14 0.32 Finland 10.03 8.40 2.74 51.23 0.26 France 5.61 9.30 1.70 88.41 0.29 Germany 8.97 7.10 3.03 55.63 0.30 Greece 8.41 12.50 -7.10 134.54 0.31 Hungary 4.86 11.20 1.69 82.56 0.27 Iceland 6.37 7.60 2.56 111.50 0.30 India 1.64 4.40 6.86 47.33 0.33 Ireland 9.34 13.50 0.70 88.76 0.29 Israel 8.98 6.60 4.71 0.37 Italy 6.66 8.40 0.44 117.29 0.34 Japan 8.63 5.00 -0.70 174.98 0.33 Korea, South 10.36 3.70 3.63 0.32 Luxembourg 20.38 4.40 1.66 17.28 0.29 Mexico 3.98 5.30 3.91 0.48 Netherlands 10.26 4.50 0.99 61.49 0.29 New Zealand 7.43 6.50 0.97 48.47 0.33 Norway 9.75 3.60 1.45 36.00 0.25 Poland 7.83 9.60 4.35 0.31 Portugal 5.40 10.80 -1.67 94.45 0.35 Russia 11.09 7.50 4.34 9.33 0.40 Slovak Republic 6.25 14.40 3.35 46.56 0.26 Slovenia 7.50 7.20 -0.17 0.24 South Africa 10.12 23.80 3.12 0.63 Spain 6.28 20.10 0.42 48.44 0.32 Sweden 4.70 8.40 3.88 39.21 0.26 Switzerland 5.37 4.20 1.93 27.65 0.30 Turkey 3.87 11.90 8.50 50.74 0.41 United Kingdom 7.68 7.80 0.76 82.67 0.34 United States 17.28 9.60 1.70 76.98 0.38

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