TOP TEN WEALTHIEST COUNTRIES
It's amazing how much money we really have in the world. The world total GNP is about 30 trillion dollars. This is a massive amout of money. Imagine what you could do with 30 trillion. Alot I know. And which country has the largest GNP ( which means gross national product)? It's the good old USA which comes in first at 11 trillion dollars about a third of the worlds gnp. Japan is next with a healty GNP of 4 trillion dollars.
HERE ARE THE REST
AT 3rd Germany at just under 2 trillion AT 4th United Kingdom 1.6 trillion AT 5th China 1.5 trillion AT 6th France 1.455 trillion AT 7th Italy 1.2 trillion AT 8th Canada .73 trillion AT 9th Spain .655trillion AT 10th POOR Mexico .642 trillion ALot of money but that dosent mean they are better off. This is mainly due to the country size. For Example all countries here in this list have a population of over 40 million. If you are living in a wealthy country and your GDP per capita is high that is a better measurement of how wealthy each indvidual is. Here are the top ten GDP ( Gross Domestics Product) per capita of the world. in DOLLARS US| 1 | Luxembourg | 69,737 |
| 2 | Norway | 54,600 |
| 3 | Switzerland | 49,300 |
| 4 | Ireland | 45,675 |
| 5 | Denmark | 44,808 |
| 6 | Iceland | 41,804 |
| 7 | United States | 39,935 |
| 8 | Sweden | 38,493 |
| 9 | Qatar | 37,610 |
| 10 | Netherlands | 37,326 |
INTERESTING FACT: JD ROCKERFELLER was the worlds wealthies man of all time. He had a 900million dollars in the ealry 20th Centuary. In 1870, Rockefeller helped found the Standard Oil company. Over a forty-year period, Rockefeller built Standard Oil into the largest and most profitable company in the world, and became the world's richest man. If he were alive today he would be worth 189billion dollars almost 4 times that of the worlds richest man today.
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