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BRICS vs. G7 Share of the World Economy
Share of world GDP at purchasing power parity, %
Plays the chart through its history. Pauses are where the data set a record or moved most.
Today’s BRICS members are applied to every year. A year is published only when every member reports.
The shift in economic weight from the old industrial powers to the large emerging economies. At purchasing power parity, BRICS passed the G7 in the 2010s.
What this chart reads
- BRICS Share of World GDP (PPP)as “BRICS (current members)”latest 2024-12-31
- G7 Share of World GDP (PPP)as “G7”latest 2025-12-31
Sources
BRICS Share of World GDP (PPP). Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators, NY.GDP.MKTP.PP.CD for each member and for the world total, annual (CC BY 4.0). Palanor sums the members and divides by the world total every month, so revisions carry through. The calculation is Palanor's.
G7 Share of World GDP (PPP). Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators, NY.GDP.MKTP.PP.CD for each member and for the world total, annual (CC BY 4.0). Palanor sums the members and divides by the world total every month, so revisions carry through. The calculation is Palanor's.
Charts are drawn from Palanor's signal library and recomputed from source data on every view. Transformations (changes, indexing, year-on-year rates) are Palanor's.