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GDP by Country· by country

Every economy on Earth, sized and ranked. The world produces about $118.4 trillion a year across 186 economies — from United States’s $30.8 trillion down to Tuvalu’s $57 million. All figures are nominal GDP in current US dollars. Explore the map, the full table and where any country stands.

View full rankingUpdated 2026-07-20

The world economy, by the numbers

Color runs cobalt from smaller to larger. Pick a metric above — the map and the ranked list beside it move together. The four largest are labeled on the map; hover or tap any country to read its figure.

GDP · nominal, current US$
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Every economy, ranked

The complete table. Click a column to sort. Change is the year-on-year change in nominal GDP.

#CountryGDPGDP / personShareChange YoY
1United States$30,769,700,000,000$90,02726.00% 5.02%
2China$19,498,039,388,043$13,86216.47% 4.10%
3Germany$5,050,922,925,047$60,4964.27% 7.80%
4Japan$4,435,162,999,977$35,9513.75% 5.85%
5United Kingdom$4,002,587,541,846$57,6023.38% 8.31%
6India$3,956,067,115,772$2,7023.34% 5.19%
7France$3,366,315,927,447$48,9862.84% 6.51%
8Russia$2,561,310,169,359$17,5472.16% 17.14%
9Italy$2,551,556,954,100$43,3092.16% 7.05%
10Canada$2,319,899,772,426$55,6981.96% 2.19%
11Brazil$2,279,920,092,492$10,7131.93% 4.30%
12Spain$1,906,453,309,986$38,6271.61% 10.48%
13South Korea$1,872,374,961,553$36,2271.58% 0.16%
14Mexico$1,832,641,364,776$13,8891.55% 0.12%
15Australia$1,798,518,933,689$65,1301.52% 2.36%

What this number really means

World GDP, 1960 → 2025 (nominal, current US$)
$30T$59T$89T$118T1960197019801990200020102020$118T
The world economy has grown from about $1.4T in 1960 to $118.4T today. Much of that rise is real growth — but a large part is simply inflation and a weaker or stronger dollar, because these figures are not adjusted for either.

GDP — gross domestic product — is the market value of all the goods and services a country produces in a year. The figures here are "nominal" and in "current US dollars": each country's output is converted into dollars using that year's average exchange rate, with no adjustment for inflation or for local prices.

That choice matters. A country whose currency weakens against the dollar can see its nominal GDP fall even if its real economy grew. And because a dollar buys far more in some countries than others, nominal GDP understates the real economic weight of lower-income, lower-price countries. This is why the 2025 nominal ranking looks different from a PPP ranking, where China already sits ahead of the United States.

GDP also says nothing about how output is shared, what it costs the environment, or whether people feel better off. It is the single most-cited economic number in the world, and one of the most misused. Treat it as a measure of the size of an economy — not of its health, its fairness, or the wellbeing of the people in it.

Known limitations: small economies, conflict zones and countries with weak statistical systems carry wider uncertainty; some economies publish GDP a year or more late and are absent from the latest year; and informal or unrecorded activity — large in many lower-income countries — is only partly captured. Treat every figure as a well-sourced estimate, not an exact account.

Rich country ≠ big economy

A big economy and a rich one are not the same thing. The scatter plots total output against output per person — the two rarely line up.

Rich country ≠ big economy
Every dot is an economy. Right = large total GDP. High = high GDP per person. The two rarely coincide.

How to read: each dot is an economy. Far right = a large total economy. High up = high output per person. The biggest economies (United States, China) sit far right — but only some are also high up. Small, rich places (Luxembourg, Qatar) sit high but far left.

$1B$10B$100B$1T$10T$1k$10k$100kGermanyJapanIrelandQatarBurundiUnited Statesbiggest & richChinahuge, mid per-personIndiahuge, low per-personLuxembourgtiny, richest← smaller economy larger economy →GDP per person — richer ↑
Color = regionSouth AsiaEast Asia & PacificEurope & Central AsiaMENA, Afghanistan & PakistanSub-Saharan AfricaLatin America & CaribbeanNorth America

Five numbers worth remembering

The same dataset, squeezed into the facts people actually retell.

Two countries — United States and China — make 42.5% of everything the world produces
United States26.0%
China16.5%
Everyone else57.5%
The top 10 economies hold 66.3% of world GDP; the other 176 share the rest
the top two42.5%
top 3–1023.8%
other 17633.7%
Each block is a share of the world economy
181 of 186 economies are smaller than the world's single largest company
Compared against a ~$4T company, 2025
The richest country produces 629× more per person than the poorest on this list
Luxembourg vs Burundi, GDP per person
United States alone is 26.0% of the world economy — about a quarter of everything
Nominal GDP, 2025

Where does a country stand?

Numbers land harder when one of them is a place you know.

Frequently asked questions

Which country has the largest economy?

United States has the largest economy in the world, with a nominal GDP of about $30.77 trillion in 2025 — roughly 26.0% of the entire world economy, according to World Bank data. China is second, at about $19.50 trillion.

What is the total GDP of the world?

World GDP was about $118.35 trillion in 2025, in nominal current US dollars, per the World Bank's World Development Indicators.

Is this GDP nominal or PPP?

These are nominal figures in current US dollars — output converted at market exchange rates, not adjusted for local prices. On a PPP (purchasing-power parity) basis the ranking changes: China is already larger than the United States, and several lower-income countries move up. Nominal GDP better reflects a country's weight in dollar-denominated global markets; PPP better reflects the volume of goods and services its economy can actually buy.

How many countries are in this ranking?

This page ranks 186 economies for which the World Bank reports a 2025 nominal GDP figure. A number of countries — including some that publish late — are absent from the most recent year, and a few are never reported separately.

Why is the world total rising so fast?

Because these figures are not adjusted for inflation. Nominal GDP grows both from real economic growth and from rising prices, so the world total climbs faster than the real economy actually does. A real-terms or PPP series would rise more slowly and steadily.

Which country has the smallest economy here?

Among economies with World Bank data for 2025, Tuvalu has the smallest nominal GDP on this list, at about $57.3 million.

Why do GDP figures differ between sources?

Different sources use different reference years, exchange-rate methods and revision schedules — the World Bank, IMF and national statistics offices don't always publish in lockstep, and GDP is heavily revised for years after the fact. This page uses one consistent source (World Bank WDI) across every country so the ranking is apples-to-apples.

Cite this page

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Our compilation on this page — the figures as arranged, ranked and dated here — is published under CC BY 4.0. Reuse it anywhere, including commercially, with a link back. The underlying data belongs to the organizations credited below.

Us, by Numbers. "GDP by Country." https://usbynumbers.com

Sources & further reading

Every figure here is built on one open dataset: the World Bank’s GDP, current US$ (NY.GDP.MKTP.CD), released under CC BY 4.0.