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This article includes a list of continents of the world sorted by their gross domestic product (GDP), the market value of all final goods and services from a continent in a given year. The GDP dollar estimates presented here are calculated at market or government official exchange rates .
[1] [2] Asia is the fastest growing economic region, as well as the largest continental economy by both GDP Nominal and PPP in the world. [11] Moreover, Asia is the site of some of the world's longest modern economic booms. As in all world regions, the wealth of Asia differs widely between, and within, states.
In Africa, the wealthiest nations are the three on the southern tip of the continent, South Africa, Botswana, and Namibia, and the countries of North Africa. Similarly, in South America, Argentina, Southern Brazil, Chile, and Uruguay have long been the wealthiest. Within Asia, Indonesia, located on the
This is a list of gross domestic product (GDP) at purchasing power parity (PPP) for the latest year. [1] All sovereign states with United Nations membership and territory in Asia or Oceania are included on the list apart from the transcontinental countries which are included in the lists for Europe (when they are current or suspended members of the Council of Europe) or Africa in the case of ...
In his 1995 book Economics and World History, economic historian Paul Bairoch gave the following estimates in terms of 1960 US dollars, for GNP from 1750 to 1990, comparing what are today the Third World (Asia, Africa, Latin America) and the First World (Western Europe, Northern America, Japan) [3]
The top 3 largest economies in Asia are China, Japan and India. China is the largest economy in Asia, comprising nearly half of the continent's gross domestic product.
Persian Empire. Ancient emperors were in the subjects game — more people, more profit — and few players played it better than the Persians. According to Guinness World Records, the Persian ...
[40] [41] [42] For much of East Asia's economic history, China was one of the most developed economies. After the Fall of the Western Roman Empire, for a thousand years, from 500 AD to 1500 AD, China was the wealthiest country in East Asia in the aggregate total in addition to per capita income. [21]