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This list of countries by largest GDP shows how the membership and rankings of the world's ten largest economies has changed. While the United States has consistently had the world's largest economy for some time, in the last fifty years the world has seen the rapid rise and fall in relative terms of the economies of other countries while the share of the United States has also fluctuated.
Values are given in millions of United States dollars (USD) and have not been adjusted for inflation. These figures have been taken from the International Monetary Fund's World Economic Outlook (WEO) Database (April 2024 edition) and/or other sources. [1] For older GDP trends, see List of regions by past GDP (PPP).
Historical list of the world's ten largest economies by GDP (PPP) (billions USD) (World Bank figures) Year World Top 10 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th 2015 113,612.52: 68,997.53 China 19,524.35 United States 17,947.0 Japan 4,738.29 Germany 3,848.27 Russia 3,579.83 Brazil 3,192.40 Indonesia 2,842.24 United Kingdom 2,691.81
The United States', however, remained the world's largest economy with the highest nominal GDP. [ 141 ] Real GDP per capita (measured in 2009 dollars) was $52,444 in 2017 and has been growing each year since 2010.
List of countries by GDP (nominal) Gross domestic product (GDP) is the market value of all final goods and services from a nation in a given year. [ 2] Countries are sorted by nominal GDP estimates from financial and statistical institutions, which are calculated at market or government official exchange rates.
The economic history of the world encompasses the development of human economic activity throughout time. It has been estimated that throughout prehistory, the world average GDP per capita was about $158 per annum (adjusted to 2013 dollars), and did not rise much until the Industrial Revolution. [citation needed]
Such fluctuations may change a country's ranking from one year to the next, even though they often make little or no difference in the standard of living of its population. [2] Overall, in the calendar year 2024, the United States' Nominal GDP at Current Prices totaled at $28.269 trillion, as compared to $25.744 trillion in 2022.
In 1998, economic historian J. Bradford DeLong estimated the total GWP in 1990 U.S. dollars for the main years between one million years BCE and 2000 CE (shown in the table below). [6] Estimates from 2000 onwards are based on world GDP, PPP estimates in 2021 constant international dollars from the World Bank and subsequently converted to 1990 US$.