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The world's economic heavyweights

The size of an economy is only one way to measure its influence.

The world's economic heavyweights: values provided in accessible table below
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The story behind the numbers

Nominal GDP combines domestic production with the effect of exchange rates. The area comparison shows how output is distributed across the selected economies. The historical lines reveal how that balance has shifted since 2000. A rising dollar value can reflect inflation or currency appreciation as well as greater production.

THE TAKEAWAY

The size of an economy is only one way to measure its influence.

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Current US dollars. Areas describe this comparison group, not the whole world.

Data behind the visual

This selected comparison includes 31 economies with observations in 2025 shown in USD trillion.

CountryValue
United States$30.77T
China$19.5T
Germany$5.05T
Japan$4.44T
United Kingdom$4T
India$3.96T
France$3.37T
Italy$2.55T
Canada$2.32T
Brazil$2.28T
South Korea$1.87T
Mexico$1.83T
Australia$1.8T
Türkiye$1.6T
Indonesia$1.45T
Netherlands$1.33T
Saudi Arabia$1.28T
Poland$1.04T
Argentina$0.68T
Sweden$0.67T
Thailand$0.58T
Norway$0.53T
Vietnam$0.51T
Philippines$0.49T
Bangladesh$0.46T
South Africa$0.43T
Pakistan$0.41T
Egypt$0.37T
Nigeria$0.29T
Kenya$0.14T
Ethiopia$0.13T

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