Before the oil price increases, economists predicted that Brazil's gross national product would shrink by 3 percent this year.
This greatly narrows what products are available and shrinks diversity.
Since 1990, Iraq's gross domestic product has shrunk an average of 35 percent each year.
In 2001, the gross domestic product may shrink between 6 to 10 percent.
Every year since 1989, North Korea's gross domestic product has shrunk.
Japan's gross national product actually shrank slightly in the last three months of 1991 after the long economic boom.
By 1994 the gross domestic product had shrunk to a quarter of that of 1989.
Net domestic product, on the other hand, is shrinking.
The Government says the gross national product has shrunk 45 percent since Milosevic rose to power in 1989.
To this date, it is estimated that the Mexican domestic product will shrink 5.5% in 2009.
