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NATIONAL RANKINGS

SOURCE: World Factbook. Updated Feb 2, 2013
Measured by Gross Domestic Product (GDP) for the year 2012

1. European Union, $15.7 trillion

2. United States, $15.670 trillion

3. China, $12.380 trillion

4. India, $4.735 trillion (recently moved ahead of Japan)

5. Japan, $4.617 trillion

6. Germany, $3.194 tillion

7. Russia, $2.509 trillion

8. Brazil, $2.362 trillion

9. United Kingdom, $2.323 trillion

10. France $2.253 trillion

COMMENT:

More people, more GDP. The leading countries in GDP benefit from large populations, especially China and India.