According to the International Monetary Fund, when looking at purchasing-power, China is right now overtaking the US to become the world’s largest economy.
By the end of this year, China will constitute 16.48% of the world’s purchasing-power and the US will make up 16.28%.
This is according to ‘adjusted purchasing power’:
The simple logic is that prices aren’t the same in each country: A shirt will cost you less in Shanghai than in San Francisco, so it’s not entirely reasonable to compare countries without taking this into account. Though a typical person in China earns a lot less than the typical person in the US, simply converting a Chinese salary into dollars underestimates how much purchasing power that individual, and therefore that country, might have. The Economist’s Big Mac Index is a great example of these disparities.
So the IMF measures both GDP in market-exchange terms and in terms of purchasing power. On the purchasing-power basis, China is overtaking the US right about now and becoming the world’s biggest economy.
We’ve just gone past that crossover on the chart below, according to the IMF. By the end of 2014, China will make up 16.48% of the world’s purchasing-power adjusted GDP (or $17.632 trillion), and the US will make up just 16.28% (or $17.416 trillion):
IMF, Google Public Data ExplorerAdjusted for purchasing power, the IMF thinks China’s economy is now the world’s largest.
It’s not all sour news for the US. It’ll be some time yet until the lines cross over in raw terms, not adjusted for purchasing power. By that measure, China still sits more than $6.5 trillion lower than the US and isn’t likely to overtake for quite some time:
polluted so much they have to buy Great lakes water!
With what Luke said. Congressmen can you say by.
And in not too many more years the U.S. dollar will not be the worlds currency, then you’ll really wish you hadn’t voted the way you did!
And we put them there our jobs
By reading some of the comments it’s not hard to see why we’re where we are. Idiots.
Audit the Fed
And CHINA can thank us for it. We sent alll our big companies over there to evoid our taxes, high employee wage bases, etc…..
Between the Japanese and these people all of our hotels, NY city just sold a big one Malls everywhere and banks we will have to learn 2 new languages oh that’s right we will all be in fema camps so we won’t have to worry
I am not surprised at all
I hope china will be a responsible nation…..not a bullly