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Quote by: rmnunez Newsweek's "Special Issues 2005", at p.22 includes the top 5 in GDP (in billions); first the US with $10,871, second is China at $6,436, next comes Japan with $3,583, then India's $3,096 and fifth is Germany with $2,279. |
Fair enough, but isn't China and India still considered "developing" Nations? If they are, I'm pretty sure the U.N. treats the country in a different way and they are not expected to pay for the U.N.(however I could be very wrong on that). IF you take out China and India, than the U.S. could very easily still have 20 -25% of the world GDP.
Here is another link I found, which paints a very differnt story(not to say Newsweek is wrong)
www.worldbank.org/data/databytopic/GDP.pdf
The data used in this .pdf is from 2003 but China only has 1, 409(also in billions). I know the Chinese economy grew, but by 5 trillion? I find that difficult to believe.
Also, using the FBI world factbook the GWP(gross world product) is 51.48 trillion.
Using Newsweeks numbers, that gives the U.S. a 21.15% stake of the GWP, which would match the U.N.'s request.
http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/...k/geos/xx.html
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