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:
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We start boworring money from them in August every year. We nee a budget,kids!
THANK THIS administration
Lets all thank the illegal Alien an president Barack Obama an the socialists liberals and the rest of the stupid $#%&!@*s in our country !!!
This is not surprising
Our own government is responsible for allowing our economy to tank and make the US a debtor instead of lender.
JUST STOP WITH THIS BULL SH*T …about this being this administration….WTH, was you just born 8 years ago?
S.S.D.A… there’s A MUCH LARGER AGENDA been in play FOR LONG TIME! much longer than you’ll probably never know if you JUST GET INFO from one source!
Sad sad sad
How long has it been that we are not number 1 or 2 in the world. We can thank the communist democrats.