A subtle reminder of how powerful China is economically

japan population 2010 is 127 million
china population 2010 is 1.3 billion
so
japan has $5334000000000
china has $6500000000000
so if my calculations are right china has more money in total but less per capita because there is more people

exactly and Japan's birth rate is so low that its economic progress is going to be SERIOUSLY in trouble within 25 years

Which is totally obvious to anyone, aside from the OP I guess, unless he is joking. Using this argument the tiny European backwater Luxembourg is twice as economically powerful as the USA. Which is obviously true, right?

China borrows heavily to build out its country with 60 story single skyscrapers in small remote villages and super trains to connect it all.

Don't let them deceive you. Yeah they build a lot of shit for $3 but only sell it for $3.50.

Are you seriously comparing the cost of running one of the largest and largely undeveloped nations on earth to one of the smallest, developed nations in the world?

Funny that the chart is GDP per capita and its immediately explained by the gfy brain trust that both countries have different sized populations.

You should check out the GDP per capita of Bermuda.

1 Luxembourg 108,952
2 Norway 84,144
3 Qatar 74,901
4 Switzerland 67,779
5 United Arab Emirates 57,884
6 Denmark 55,986
7 Australia 55,672
8 Sweden 49,183
9 Netherlands 46,986
10 United States 46,860
11 Canada 46,303
12 Ireland 46,298
13 Austria 44,988
14 Finland 44,496
15 Singapore 43,117
16 Belgium 42,845
17 Japan 42,783
18 France 40,704
19 Germany 40,274
20 Iceland 39,026
21 Kuwait 37,009
22 United Kingdom 36,164
23 Italy 34,059
— European Union[4] 32,537
24 New Zealand 32,163
— Hong Kong 31,514
25 Spain 30,639
26 Brunei 29,675
27 Israel 29,264
28 Cyprus 28,854
29 Greece 27,311
30 Slovenia 23,648
31 Bahamas, The 22,350
32 Portugal 21,542
33 Korea, South 20,756
34 Bahrain 20,475
35 Malta 19,707
36 Oman 19,405
37 Taiwan (Republic of China) 18,558
38 Czech Republic 18,277
39 Saudi Arabia 16,267
40 Slovakia 16,104
41 Antigua and Barbuda 15,635
42 Trinidad and Tobago 15,463
43 Barbados 14,858
44 Estonia 14,405
45 Croatia 13,776
46 Hungary 13,024
47 Poland 12,323
48 Saint Kitts and Nevis 12,263
49 Uruguay 11,998
50 Chile 11,827
51 Lithuania 11,046
52 Equatorial Guinea[5] 11,045
53 Libya 10,873
54 Brazil 10,816
55 Latvia 10,680
56 Seychelles 10,617
57 Russia 10,356
58 Turkey 10,309
59 Venezuela 10,049
60 Lebanon 10,041
61 Mexico 9,522
— World[6] 9,238
62 Argentina 9,131
63 Kazakhstan 9,009
64 Gabon 8,779
65 Malaysia 8,423
66 Botswana 8,117
67 Costa Rica 7,701
68 Panama 7,601
69 Mauritius 7,590
70 Grenada 7,571
71 Romania 7,542
72 South Africa 7,274
73 Saint Lucia 7,233
74 Suriname 6,975
75 Maldives 6,773
76 Dominica 6,632
77 Montenegro 6,417
78 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 6,381
79 Colombia 6,360
80 Bulgaria 6,356
81 Azerbaijan 6,008
82 Belarus 5,771
83 Namibia 5,518
84 Iran 5,449
85 Dominican Republic 5,227
86 Peru 5,205
87 Serbia 5,139
88 Thailand 4,992
89 Jamaica 4,915
90 Macedonia, Republic of 4,483
91 China, People's Republic of 4,382
92 Algeria 4,366
93 Angola 4,329
94 Jordan 4,326
95 Bosnia and Herzegovina 4,242
96 Belize 4,226
97 Tunisia 4,199
98 Ecuador 3,921
99 Albania 3,716
100 Turkmenistan 3,677
101 El Salvador 3,618
102 Tonga 3,518
103 Fiji 3,493
104 Cape Verde 3,247
105 Swaziland 3,133
106 Congo, Republic of the 3,113
107 Kosovo[7] 3,064
108 Ukraine 3,013
109 Indonesia 2,974
110 Tuvalu[7] 2,960
111 Guyana 2,923
112 Samoa 2,913
113 Vanuatu 2,897
114 Paraguay 2,878
115 Guatemala 2,867
116 Morocco 2,861
117 Armenia 2,840
118 Syria 2,823
119 Egypt 2,808
120 Georgia 2,629
121 Iraq 2,531
122 Sri Lanka 2,428
123 Mongolia 2,267
124 Philippines 2,123
125 Bhutan 2,069
126 Honduras 1,908
127 Bolivia 1,900
128 Moldova 1,630
129 Sudan + South Sudan 1,629
130 Kiribati 1,467
131 Papua New Guinea 1,465
132 Uzbekistan 1,380
133 India 1,371
134 Djibouti 1,370
135 Ghana 1,364
136 Solomon Islands 1,357
137 Nigeria 1,298
138 São Tomé and Príncipe 1,294
139 Yemen 1,284
140 Zambia 1,221
141 Vietnam 1,174
142 Mauritania 1,141
143 Nicaragua 1,127
144 Cameroon 1,103
145 Côte d'Ivoire 1,043
146 Pakistan 1,030
147 Laos 1,004
148 Senegal 980
149 Lesotho 911
150 Comoros 862
151 Kyrgyzstan 843
152 Chad 837
153 Cambodia 814
154 Kenya 808
155 Burma 742
156 Tajikistan 734
157 Mali 701
158 Benin 682
159 Haiti 667
160 Bangladesh 642
161 Gambia, The 612
162 Burkina Faso 610
163 Zimbabwe 594
164 Timor-Leste 588
165 Rwanda 558
166 Nepal 557
167 Tanzania 545
168 Afghanistan 515
169 Guinea-Bissau 508
170 Uganda 501
171 Togo 457
172 Guinea 448
173 Mozambique 440
174 Central African Republic 429
175 Madagascar 415
176 Eritrea 398
177 Niger 375
178 Ethiopia 350
179 Malawi 343
180 Sierra Leone 326
181 Liberia 229
182 Congo, Democratic Republic of the 186
183 Burundi 180

Are you seriously claiming Luxembourg has the twice the economic power of the USA?

Looked like you needed to have it explained.

Missed the class on reading graphs?

Some people might find that list annoying, Madcat.

PPP (Purchasing Power Parity) is more useful for this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purchasing_power_parity

Don't forget China needs the US more then the US needs China. Never forget that.

To answer your question... uhm... no. Haha.. jesus.

GDP per capita is just that. Japan is just an interesting comparison. When you're behind a nation of street beggars and gypsies like Aizerbaijan with production per person (which mostly comes from oil exports), you've got a problem. Especially when you have 1.4 Billion people, the bulk of which, living in abject poverty and you are one of the most expansive countries in the world.... and still undeveloped.

I love how people use pictures like these to illustrate how badly a country is doing.

This says nothing about that. This is called work. This is the reason why countries like China are outpacing countries like the US. They have work ethic and the idea of working doesn't scare them.

I love how China has an iron fist around any corporation that wants to do business in their country. American government could learn from that example.

The government should be scared of it's people and do what they demand. The Chinese people can learn that from American people.

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Japanese has better porn tho

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