Wednesday, February 16, 2011

The 10 richest countries

With a new rise of 10.3% in 2010, the Chinese GDP passed in front of that of Japan.


1 - The United States: 14,660.2 billion dollars

Economic recovery was reinforced in the United States in 2010. After its stagnation of 2008 and its fall of 2.6% in 2009, the GDP filled its losses of the recession.

2 - China: 5,878.6 billion dollars

The Chinese economy exceeded that of its neighbor in 2010 and became the second of the world, behind that the United States, a place which occupied the Japanese economy since 1968.

3 - Japan: 5,474.2 billion dollars

Heavily struck by the world economic recession in 2008 and 2009, the economy of Japan was raised in 2010, its growth reaching 3.9%, but that did not make it possible the archipelago to preserve its second position vis-a-vis China in fast rise.

4 - Germany: 3,305.8 billion dollars

Doubled by China in 2007, Germany, whose economy was touched hard by the crisis, rebounded of 3.6% in 2010 - a figure ever seen since the reunification of the country.

5 - France: 2,555.4 billion dollars

The French government engaged costs which its public deficit of 7.7% of the GDP costs to bring back or a little less in 2010, to 6% this year and 4.6% in 2012. It already started to prepare the spirits with a rigor increased with a new announced effort of reduction of the tax loopholes.

6 - The United Kingdom: 2,258.5 billion dollars

The British government announced the raising of a tax imposed on the banks to help to make up the public deficit. This tax must help the country to face its public deficit”, higher than 10% of the GDP.

7 - Italy: 2,036.5 billion dollars

Italy adopted last July a plan of austerity of 25 billion euros relating to the years 2011 and 2012 which should enable him to bring back its deficit to 2.7% in 2012 against a level of 5.3% in 2009. Its national debt borders 120% more of its GDP.

8 - Brazil: 2,023.5 billion dollars

The Brazilian government announced budgetary cuts of 30 billion dollars in order to slow down inflation in 2011, but they will touch neither the social programs nor the investments in the infrastructures. The goal in 2011 is to arrive to a rise of 5% of the GDP, after 7.5% in 2010.

9 - Canada: 1,563.6 billion dollars

The Canadian economy knew a growth weaker than envisaged with the third quarters, the progressing GDP only of 1% in annual rhythm, because in particular of the weakness of exports.

10 - Russia: 1,476.9 billion dollars

The figure for 2010 slightly better than is envisaged, Russian the Prime Minister, Vladimir Putin, having indicated to in mid-January that the rise of the GDP had been established to 3.8%.

Rosstat specified to have revised its estimate for 2009, to less 7.8% against less 7.9% previously.

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