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developed economies to achieve positive growth (0.7 percent) in 2009. As the global economy began to recover, statistics indicated that growth rates were getting back to normal – around 3 percent in early 2010. The GDP per capita grew by more than 60 percent in the course of the last decade of the 20th century, reaching an annual level of close to $25,800 in 2007 and $27,143 in 2008. The economic growth rate in Israel in 2006 was relatively high compared with the growth rate in other developed countries. The average growth of the GDP in the 30 OECD countries totaled 3.2% in 2006 and was 1.9% lower than the growth rate in Israel.