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Midway through the 2020s, it’s time for a quick look back at how the world’s top 20 economies have performed since 2015.
This graphic ranks countries by their forecasted gross domestic product (GDP) in 2025, and visualizes their inflation-adjusted growth since 2015.
The 2015 figure was calculated by reversing the effects of real GDP growth for every intervening year. All figures are in 2025 dollars.
Data for this chart is sourced from the International Monetary Fund.
I'm a little surprised that Germany was positive.
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This is modest growth over a 10-year period. I was surprised by India's 77%. Truly impressive!
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European growth is anemic, but it's still growth.
India and China had massive rates of growth. Most people live in that part of the world, so if they get their institutions in order, it would make sense for most of the economic activity to take place there.
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Yep! It would be interesting to see the per capita figures!
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They're both about 4x the size of America, so you can do a quick comparison with that.
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I don't know either. I've never heard of that monetary unit "current international $".
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Metadata

Indicator Name: GDP per capita, PPP (current international $) (NY.GDP.PCAP.PP.CD)
Long definition: This indicator provides per capita values for gross domestic product (GDP) expressed in current international dollars converted by purchasing power parity (PPP) conversion factor. GDP is the sum of gross value added by all resident producers in the country plus any product taxes and minus any subsidies not included in the value of the products. conversion factor is a spatial price deflator and currency converter that controls for price level differences between countries. Total population is a mid-year population based on the de facto definition of population, which counts all residents regardless of legal status or citizenship.
Source: International Comparison Program, World Bank | World Development Indicators database, World Bank | Eurostat-OECD PPP Programme.
Topic: Economic Policy & Debt: Purchasing power parity
Periodicity: Annual
Aggregation method: Weighted average
Statistical concept and methodology: Typically, higher income countries have higher price levels, while lower income countries have lower price levels (Balassa-Samuelson effect). Market exchange rate-based cross-country comparisons of GDP at its expenditure components reflect both differences in economic outputs (volumes) and prices. Given the differences in price levels, the size of higher income countries is inflated, while the size of lower income countries is depressed in the comparison. PPP-based cross-country comparisons of GDP at its expenditure components only reflect differences in economic outputs (volume), as PPPs control for price level differences between the countries. Hence, the comparison reflects the real size of the countries. For more information on underlying GDP in current international dollar, please refer to the metadata for "GDP, PPP (current international $)" [NY.GDP.MKTP.PP.CD]. For more information on underlying population, please refer to the metadata for "total population” [SP.POP.TOTL]. For the concept and methodology of PPP, please refer to the International Comparison Program (ICP)’s website (https://www.worldbank.org/en/programs/icp).
License Type: CC BY-4.0
Nearly all of Indias GDP growth is internal consumption, not exports. India was just ahead of Poland and behind Vietnam in terms of traded goods as of 2021-
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It’s incredible how Brazil is always among the worst. The best thing I did was to stop losing money to inflation and invest in a truly good currency. Among the BRICS members, only India and China have performed well in these 10 years; I don’t know what the per capita value is and if it would be much different.
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In this case (GDP) it is among the best. But this GDP doesn't really say much about individuals. GDP ppp brings more information to the table, and in this case Brazil is around position 100 in the ranking (2023).
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GDP includes financialised services and domestic consumption and so it is interesting to compare with traded goods...to gauge success in terms of international competitiveness and trade surplus generation.
That is where Chinas incredible growth and now undeniable leadership in manufactured exports can be seen.
China has won the trade war and now Trump is ceding territory seized by Chinas military proxy Russia- just the start of a redrawing of global power dynamics and resource hegemony.
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