GDP by country, 1960 to 2025
GDP by country stood at $30.77T in 2025, up 5.0% on the previous period.
The United States led the world with $30.8 trillion of output in 2025, ahead of China's $19.5 trillion, Germany's $5.1 trillion, and Japan's $4.4 trillion. India and the United Kingdom are effectively tied for fifth at $4.0 trillion each.
How it is measured
The figures come from the World Bank's World Development Indicators (indicator NY.GDP.MKTP.CD): gross domestic product in current US dollars, converted at market exchange rates, one value per country per year. Rankings therefore move with currencies as well as with growth, and differ from comparisons at purchasing-power parity. This page covers 21 economies: every country that has ranked in the nominal top 10 since 1960, plus the rest of 2025's top 20. The Soviet Union is absent from the series; Russia's data begins in 1988.
What the chart shows
The race replays 65 years of the top 10. In 1960 the United States produced $542 billion, 54 percent of the entire top 10's output, with Germany, the United Kingdom, and France next and China fifth at $60 billion. Japan took second place in 1968 and held it for four decades, peaking at 74 percent of US output in the mid-1990s. China passed Germany in 2007 and Japan in 2010, and has held second since. The most recent reshuffles are lower on the board: Germany moved back ahead of Japan in 2023, and India first passed the United Kingdom in 2022, with the two swapping places since.
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