Angus Maddison statistics of the ten largest economies by GDP (PPP)

This historical list of the ten largest countries by GDP shows how the membership and rankings of the world's ten largest economies has changed. While the United States has consistently had the world's largest economy since the early twentieth century, and by a margin that has generally widened and then lessened over time, in the last fifty years the world has seen the rapid rise and fall in relative terms of the economies of other countries.