APEC Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation
This huge regional trade group brings together political leaders and CEO's from 21 nations that together account for more than half of the world's economic output and 42% of its population.

Click on country for info on: Population, Growth Rate, Land Mass, Language, Literacy rate, Trade Imports, Ethnic Composition, etc.

APEC  members consist of:
Australia   Brunei   Canada   Chile   China   Hong Kong

Indonesia   Japan South Korea   Malaysia  Mexico 

New Zealand   Papua New Guinea   Peru Philippines 

 Russia   Singapore   Taiwan   Thailand   USA   Vietnam

Members of APEC, are well diverse, ranging from economic giants such as the U.S. and Japan to tiny nations such as Brunei, Papua New Guinea.

APEC economies are also geographically far stretching from Canada, Russia Arctic to the southern tip of South America, The Gobi Desert to New York. The one factor for the 21 economies have in common is that part of their land mass borders the Pacific Rim.

APEC was founded in 1989 after the second leaders' summit at Bogor, Indonesia in 1994 which set a bold target: To remove all barriers to free trade by 2010 for developed countries and 2020 for the rest.

APEC's progress since has achieved much in the past 10 years. It has become a major force for economic reform, having put in place far-reaching programs for trade liberalization, removal of unnecessary business cost and red tape, and economic cooperation between members.

Most important, in 1994 the leaders of APEC committed themselves to free trade and investment.

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