The World's Largest Economies 2017
About This Dataset
The World's Largest Economies 2017United States (19.61), China (12.54) and Japan (5.04) take the top three. Across the twenty shown, values run from 19.61 down to 0.71, a spread of 18.90. United States is 1.56 times China, the country in second place. 2 of the 20 reach half the leading figure, 9.81 or more. United States stood at 18.80 in 2016, so its figure rose by 0.81 over the year. United States also came first in 2016. Of the 20 in this table that also reported in 2016, 17 recorded a higher figure than the year before and 3 a lower one. The largest single move was China, from 11.46 to 12.54. The chart shows the twenty highest of 211 reporting countries, so it describes the top of the distribution rather than the world average.
Key Findings
Data Insights
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Methodology & source
- Data source
- World Bank
- Coverage
- 20 entities · 2017 · 20 observations
- Measure
- GDP (USD Trillion)
- Last updated
- 7 September 2026
- Compiled by
- The ANYSTAT team, from the source above
- Values are shown as reported by the source. Nothing is rescaled, rebased or converted — the only changes are thousand separators and decimals shown to two places.
- Entities are ranked highest-first on their value in 2017.
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