The World’s Largest Economies 2012
By 2020 there will be a vital change in the tellurian change of mercantile energy compared to 2010. Emerging economies will arise in significance and China will have overtaken the USA to lead the list of the world’s tip 10 largest economies by GDP totalled in PPP terms. Consumer markets in rising economies will benefaction huge opportunities but their fast expansion poses a plea to the tellurian environment. Early this year Japan reliable that China’s economy surpassed its own as the world’s second largest in 2010.
In the favoured GDP method, we can see that the grown universe leads the pack, but that China has already damaged into this disdainful club, and is now the second largest economy in the universe by both measures.
Here is the Top 10, as listed by PPP GDP:
United States
Country Rank: #1
GDP- Purchasing Power Parity: $14.66 trillion (As of 2010)
Contribution of Industrial Sector in GDP: 22.1%
Contribution of Agricultural Sector in GDP: 1.1%
Contribution of Services Sector in GDP: 76.8% (As of 2010)
Population: 312,222,000 (As of 2011)
Unemployment Rate: 9.6% (As of 2010)
China
Country Rank: #2
GDP- Purchasing Power Parity: 10.09 trillion (As of 2010)
Contribution of Industrial Sector in GDP: 46.9%
Contribution of Agricultural Sector in GDP: 10.2%
Contribution of Services Sector in GDP: 43% (As of 2010)
Population: 1,339,724,852 (As of 2010)
Unemployment Rate: 4.3% (As of 2009)
Japan
Country Rank: #3
GDP- Purchasing Power Parity: 4.31 trillion (As of 2010)
Contribution of Industrial Sector in GDP: 24.9%
Contribution of Agricultural Sector in GDP: 1.4%
Contribution of Services Sector in GDP: 73.8% (As of 2010)
Population: 127,960,000 (As of 2011)
Unemployment Rate: 5% (As of 2010)
India
Country Rank: #4
GDP- Purchasing Power Parity: 4.06 trillion (As of 2010)
Contribution of Industrial Sector in GDP: 26.3%
Contribution of Agricultural Sector in GDP: 18.5%
Contribution of Services Sector in GDP: 55.2% (As of 2010)
Population: 1,210,193,422 (As of 2011)
Unemployment Rate: 10.8% (As of 2010)
Germany
Country Rank: #5
GDP- Purchasing Power Parity: 2.940 trillion (As of 2010)
Contribution of Industrial Sector in GDP: 27.8%
Contribution of Agricultural Sector in GDP: 0.9%
Contribution of Services Sector in GDP: 71.3% (As of 2010)
Population: 81,799,600 (As of 2010)
Unemployment Rate: 7.1% (As of 2010)
Russia
Country Rank: #6
GDP- Purchasing Power Parity: $2.223 trillion (As of 2010)
Contribution of Industrial Sector in GDP: 36.8%
Contribution of Agricultural Sector in GDP: 4%
Contribution of Services Sector in GDP: 59.1% (As of 2010)
Population: 142,905,208 (As of 2010)
Unemployment Rate: 7.6% (As of 2010)
United Kingdom
Country Rank: #7
GDP- Purchasing Power Parity: $2.173 trillion (As of 2010)
Contribution of Industrial Sector in GDP: 21.8%
Contribution of Agricultural Sector in GDP: 0.7%
Contribution of Services Sector in GDP: 77.5% (As of 2010)
Population: 62,262,000 (As of 2011)
Unemployment Rate: 7.8% (As of 2010)
Brazil
Country Rank: #8
GDP- Purchasing Power Parity: $2.172 trillion (As of 2010)
Contribution of Industrial Sector in GDP: 26.8%
Contribution of Agricultural Sector in GDP: 5.8%
Contribution of Services Sector in GDP: 67.4% (As of 2010)
Population:192.376.496 (As of 2011)
Unemployment Rate: 6.7% (As of 2010)
France
Country Rank: #9
GDP- Purchasing Power Parity: $2.145 trillion (As of 2010)
Contribution of Industrial Sector in GDP: 18.5%
Contribution of Agricultural Sector in GDP: 2%
Contribution of Services Sector in GDP: 79.5% (As of 2010)
Population: 65,821,885 (As of 2011)
Unemployment Rate: 9.3% (As of 2010)
Italy
Country Rank: #10
GDP- Purchasing Power Parity: $1.774 trillion (As of 2010)
Contribution of Industrial Sector in GDP: 25.3%
Contribution of Agricultural Sector in GDP: 1.9%
Contribution of Services Sector in GDP: 72.8% (As of 2010)
Population: 60,681,514 (As of 2011)
Unemployment Rate: 8.4% (As of 2010)
[Source: CIA World FactBook]
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