Talk:List of countries by past and projected GDP (PPP)

Ordering
Might we want to make the countries rankable by PPP per capita rather than how far north or south they are?65.0.98.198 (talk) 19:28, 5 November 2011 (UTC)

Merger proposal (please vote !)

 * Support Mightymights (talk) 21:30, 1 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Oppose to merger and oppose to this vote-focused procedure per WP:NOTDEMOCRACY Gun Powder Ma (talk) 23:18, 19 June 2011 (UTC)

Recent IMF and World Bank IPC comparison
Recently in the news it was pointed out that the IMF and World Bank both released reports that suggest that China would surpass the US economy as early as 2014 in intl$ terms. There are many articles that cover it, such as this one at the guardian: the guardian — which points out that it is really just using an estimate of 2011 data from the IPC comparison, and reported growth rates since. The IPC comparison uses different numbers than is still in the IMF and World Bank data, and presumably the difference comes from using up-to-date exchange rates instead of the formal 2005 exchange rates data that the tpyical reports are based on. Obviously, as of April 2014, the IMF has not changed the projection data. — My question is, to anyone who already is familiar with all this, when will the IMF official data switch from 2005 exchange rates? 108.45.79.90 (talk) 11:59, 29 May 2014 (UTC)

Errors in GDP and GDP growth
When I was reading this article, I noticed that it said China had broken the $20 Trillion mark in 2016 as many sources put it at somewhere between 10-13 billion in 2015. If it would've broken 20 trillion by 2016 that would have to be a almost 100% growth which is impossible to have done without making world news and I have not been able to find any articles about this. Even if that was the case, this page puts China's GDP at 19 trillion in 2015. If that part is incorrect, I'm sure the predicted growth is also incorrect. I'm not sure how to confirm or fix this myself. If a more experienced editor could take a look at this that would be great. I would also check some of the GDP's on the major nations such as the US, India, and Britain as there may be more possible errors. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 164.116.241.1 (talk) 21:04, 23 September 2016 (UTC)

How did you estimate Wikipedia 2060 values?
The Wikipedia figure "Top ten economies by GDP PPP in 2060. Estimates by PwC." has the reference ("GDP projections from PwC: how China, India and Brazil will overtake the West by 2050" – PwC forecasts of GDP (PPP), January, 2011.), saying 2050, not 2060. The Wikipedia section "Long term GDP estimates", is saying "This is a list of countries by estimated future GDP (PPP) based on data from the PwC for the year 2015." using the same reference to 2050 above. But the table "Gross domestic product (PPP) [2015–2060] (in current US$ millions)" is up to 2060, not 2050. The key reference is the guardian datablog "GDP projections from PwC: how China, India and Brazil will overtake the West by 2050

This article has some links. One is to World Bank. The data could be seen only up to 2016, even setting end=2060. The other is to spreadsheets "World in 2050 - GDP at PPPs - jan 2011" As the title says, they are up to 2050. PwC Global has there own webpage; "The World in 2050". Their interactive data tool indicates China in 2050 would be 58.5 US$ trillions, while Wikipedia 121.4 --- more than twice! Their full report (February 2017) says "our World in 2050 model now includes 32 countries", while Wikipedia looks to list all 192 IMF regions.

Finally, here are my suggestions. 1) Replace the figure above with their Figure 9, with an appropriate reference. 2) Replace the table above with their Table 2, with an appropriate reference. LuisJp (talk) 12:20, 8 November 2017 (UTC)

IMF April 2018
2018 IMFRety54 (talk) 19:17, 12 May 2018 (UTC)

Rank column
This is badly misaligned if even one row is taller than 25px, and most of them are on a reasonably wide screen. Also a template exists for this purpose:. Hairy Dude (talk) 23:21, 10 July 2018 (UTC)


 * Hi Hairy Dude. This is badly misaligned for me too. I'm removing it. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 02:32, 26 February 2019 (UTC)

Request for charts and graphs
This data would be much easier shown as line graphs. If anybody has the bandwidth to do this, it would be greatly appreciated! Mapmaker345 (talk) 19:04, 13 September 2020 (UTC)