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DEFINITION:
This entry gives the gross domestic product (GDP) or value of all final goods and services produced within a nation in a given year. A nation's GDP at offical exchange rates (OER) is the home-currency-denominated annual GDP figure divided by the bilateral average US exchange rate with that country in that year. The measure is simple to compute and gives a precise measure of the value of output. Many economists prefer this measure when gauging the economic power an economy maintains vis-a-vis its neighbors, judging that an exchange rate captures the purchasing power a nation enjoys in the international marketplace. Official exchange rates, however, can be artifically fixed and/or subject to manipulation - resulting in claims of the country having an under- or over-valued currency - and are not necessarily the equivalent of a market-determined exchange rate. Moreover, even if the official exchange rate is market-determined, market exchange rates are frequently established by a relatively small set of goods and services (the ones the country trades) and may not capture the value of the larger set of goods the country produces. Furthermore, OER-converted GDP is not well suited to comparing domestic GDP over time, since appreciation/depreciation from one year to the next will make the OER GDP value rise/fall regardless of whether home-currency-denominated GDP changed.
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# | COUNTRY | AMOUNT | DATE | GRAPH | HISTORY |
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1 | China | $8.11 trillion | 2013 | ||
2 | Brazil | $2.22 trillion | 2012 | ||
3 | Russia | $2.00 trillion | 2012 | ||
4 | India | $1.82 trillion | 2012 | ||
5 | Mexico | $1.16 trillion | 2012 | ||
6 | Indonesia | $866.70 billion | 2012 | ||
7 | Turkey | $777.60 billion | 2012 | ||
8 | Poland | $483.20 billion | 2012 | ||
9 | Argentina | $468.80 billion | 2012 | ||
10 | South Africa | $379.10 billion | 2012 | ||
11 | Venezuela | $376.10 billion | 2012 | ||
12 | Colombia | $364.00 billion | 2012 | ||
13 | Thailand | $361.00 billion | 2012 | ||
14 | Malaysia | $300.60 billion | 2012 | ||
15 | Chile | $264.50 billion | 2012 | ||
16 | Philippines | $246.80 billion | 2012 | ||
17 | Pakistan | $222.50 billion | 2012 | ||
18 | Peru | $196.20 billion | 2012 | ||
19 | Ukraine | $173.90 billion | 2012 | ||
20 | Romania | $167.10 billion | 2012 | ||
21 | Hungary | $124.00 billion | 2012 | ||
22 | Bulgaria | $50.33 billion | 2012 | ||
23 | Lithuania | $41.57 billion | 2012 | ||
24 | Latvia | $28.00 billion | 2012 | ||
25 | Estonia | $22.10 billion | 2012 |