Share of World GDP Per Continent (1990-2010)

In the twenty years before 2010 China gained a lot of GDP. Since its GDP growth was a lot higher than in Europe and the United States it also gained in its share of World GDP. That is China's economy got bigger compared to Europe, United States and Japan. This is shown in the graph.

Conservable Economist

Projected Economic Growth in OECD Countries (2012 & 2013)

ABN-AMRO made this graph with its projections for the economic growth of the countries in the world for 2012 and 2013. If a country is to the right of the vertical line it is projected to grow faster than the projected growth of the world GDP, for the horizontal line this is the same for 2013. Countries in the right corner are doing extremely well.

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World GDP Density

This graph shows the GDP per capita in the world. Besides Europe, especially notice west and east coasts of the U.S. and the coast of China, the oil states, the Nile, east Australia and Moscow.

Clearly there are a lot of physical determiants of GDP. Cold in the North and warm in the middle, forests. mountains and ofcourse the sea.

Econbrowser

China & India Will Consume 50 percent Of World Economy in 2050

In this great graph you can see the developing of the economy (gross domestic product) of the world throughout history, illustrated by the relative importance of the nine great powers of the world. Up until 1800, more than half of the world economy was dominated by China and India. Since 1800 the western powers more and more took over the world economy from Asia. Especially look at the development of the United States and the United Kingdom. The process turned around from 1980 when China introduced economic reforms. China and India are projected to have around half of world GDP again by 2050.

This can also be seen as the rise and the fall of the 'West'.

Nalilord

Top Three Countries By Economic Dominance: History, Present & Future

China can be in 2030 economically almost as big as the United States was in 1970, as a share of global economic power (which consists of GDP, Trade and net capital exports). The top 3 for 1870 and 2010 are also given. The United States is the only country that is listed three times. China, Germany and Japan are all listed twice.

The Economist

Size Of The Financial Markets

In 2010 world Gross domestic product was 63 trillion dollars. The financial industry is many times bigger than the value of all goods and services produced in the world. Shares and bonds are about the same value of world GDP, but derivatives trading and foreign currency transactions are ten and fifteen times bigger than world gdp.

Der Spiegel