Germany set to eclipse Japan as No. 3 economy in 2023, IMF says

Re:Germany set to eclipse Japan as No. 3 economy in 2023, IM... by AlchemistCamp on Thursday October 26, 2023 @06:04PM (#38032303)

Not quite sure what you're smoking but that claim is not true. The US economy was roughly comparable in size to the EU's 15 years ago but is now nearly 1/3 larger than the EU + UK, or about 1/2 larger than the EU without the UK: https://www.ft.com/content/80ace07f-3acb-40cb-9960-8bb4a44fd...

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Re:Germany set to eclipse Japan as No. 3 economy in 2023, IM... by deepsun on Friday October 27, 2023 @04:53PM (#38043776)

Seems like the difference is in PPP vs Nominal. Numbers are hard. Matching the numbers:

                 US   / EU   / Europe:
    Nominal [1]: 27.0 / 18.4 / 25
    PPP     [2]: 15.5 / 14.6 / 21

My point was that EU is higher than #6, as well as Germany, whatever the metric.

But, as I was corrected below, they meant "sixth" as share, not as rank.

[1] https://www.imf.org/external/datamapper/NGDPD@WEO/USA/EU/EUQ

[2] https://www.imf.org/external/datamapper/PPPSH@WEO/USA/EU/EUQ

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