数字说明一切：自2000年国民储蓄大幅低于趋势水平以来，经常项目赤字平均值扩大到GDP的3.8 % — —是1970—1999年间1%的缺口水平的近四倍。
The numbers bear this out: since 2000, when national saving fell well below trend, the current-account deficit has widened to an average of 3.8% of GDP – nearly four times the 1% gap from 1970 to 1999.