Bilyal Makhov of Russia celebrates his victory over Artur Taymazov of Uzbekistan in their 120 kg men’s free style gold medal match at the World Wrestling Championships.Reuters
PwC — one of the world’s largest professional services firms — just released its predictions for the most powerful economies in the world by 2030.The report, entitled “The long view: how will the global economic order change by 2050?,” ranked 32 countries by theirprojected global GDP by purchasing power parity (PPP).
PPP is used by macroeconomists to determine the economic productivity and standards of living between countries across a certain time period.
PwC’s findings show that while some of the same countries stay right at the top of the list in 13 years’ time, there are a number of economies that slip down or rise up massively by 2030.
Check out which countries made the list. All numbers cited in the slides are in US dollars and at constant values (for reference the USA’s current PPP is $18,562 billion):