Russia has overtaken Germany as the fifth largest economy in terms of purchasing power parity, according to the latest World Bank ranking that measures 214 economies based on their 2012 GDP performance.
Russia's oil and export driven economy is ranked fifth amongst
the top ten economies in the world with $3.4 trillion in GDP. In
2011, Germany surpassed Russia in GDP with $3.227 trillion
compared to Russia’s $3.203 trillion. In 2005, Russia was in
eighth place.
Country
Purchasing Power Parity
1
United States
$15.6 trillion
2
China
$12.4 trillion
3
India
$4.8 trillion
4
Japan
$4.5 trillion
5
Russia
$3.4 trillion
6
Germany
$3.3 trillion
7
Brazil
$2.4 trillion
8
France
$2.4 trillion
9
United Kingdom
$2.3 trillion
10
Mexico
$2.0 trillion
The report was published last week in an annual ranking
of GDP. The World Bank also updated their ranking of countries in
terms of gross national product (GNP) per capita, grouping Russia
in the ‘high income’ nation block, with individual yearly income
of $12,616 or more.
The United States was ranked by the World Bank as the world's
largest economy by purchasing power parity last year with $15.7
trillion, followed by China with $12.5 trillion, India with $4.8
trillion, and Japan with $4.5 trillion.
Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev publicly lauded the advance on
Monday, as did President Vladimir Putin, but warning his country
still needs to be financially vigilant.
"The World Bank has concluded that Russia has the fifth
strongest purchasing power in the world. According to this
indicator, we are ahead of the Federal Republic of Germany. But
we have a lot of areas that still need special attention,"
Putin said at a socio-economic meeting in the Sakhalin region, an
energy rich Far East island north of Japan where Rosneft just put
the final touches on a new drilling platform ‘Orlan’ in the Sea
of Okhotsk. Sakhalin-1, a joint venture with Japan, India, and
the US, has reserves of 2.3 billion barrels of oil and 485
billion cubic meters of gas.
In June, the World Bank cut its growth forecast for Russia to
less than 2.2 percent in 2013 and 3 percent in 2014, after
revising January forecast the economy would grow by 3.6 percent
in and 3.9 percent in 2014. This is the 'new normal' for lethargic global demand and
momentum, according to the report's author Andrew Burns.
The World Bank rating differs from the International Monetary
Fund, where Russia is listed as the eighth largest economy with a
GDP of $2 trillion. The same matrix calculates the US GDP as the
first with $15.7 trillion, China second with $8.2 trillion, Japan
third with $6 trillion, Germany fourth with $3.4 trillion, France
fifth with $2.6 trillion, the United Kingdom sixth with $2.4
trillion, and Brazil seventh with $2.4 trillion.
The purchasing power parity rate is determined on how many goods
and services $1.00 can buy in different countries.
Rankings were only assigned to economies with confirmed PPP GDP
estimates.