[Lake]

>>China's economy is 7 times larger than that of india when their populations are roughly the same.

United States Economy

GDP: purchasing power parity - $9.963 trillion (2000 est.)

GDP - real growth rate: 5% (2000 est.)

GDP - per capita: purchasing power parity - $36,200 (2000 est.)

China Economy

GDP: purchasing power parity - $4.5 trillion (2000 est.)

GDP - real growth rate: 8% (2000 est.)

GDP - per capita: purchasing power parity - $3,600 (2000 est.)

India Economy

GDP: purchasing power parity - $2.2 trillion (2000 est.)

GDP - real growth rate: 6% (2000 est.)

GDP - per capita: purchasing power parity - $2,200 (2000 est.)

[borghead]

This is after purchasing power parity analysis, I'm talking about the original GDPs. China(with hongkong) only has about an 1.7 trillion GDP. And india is 1/7 of that.

[Nateman]

At those rates of growth China equals US output in 28 years.