"Figure 7: Most countries had a negative mean revision during the financial crisis; this suggests initial GDP growth estimates tended to underestimate the size of the economic downturn","" "Mean revision and mean absolute revision of quarterly gross domestic product growth three years after initial estimates, selection of countries, Quarter 1 (Jan to Mar) 2008 to Quarter 4 (Oct to Dec) 2009","" "","" "Notes","" "Unit","Percentage points" "","" "","Mean revision","Mean absolute revision" "UK","-0.05","0.58" "Canada","-0.09","0.18" "USA","-0.44","0.49" "Japan","-0.04","0.47" "Italy","-0.23","0.36" "Germany","0.06","0.24" "France","-0.30","0.30" "Netherlands","0.09","0.38" "Australia","0.12","0.32"