BRICS Share of World GDP (PPP)

## What this measures

The combined GDP of the BRICS members, measured at purchasing-power parity, as a percent of world GDP. BRICS here means its ten members as of 2026: Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, plus Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran and the United Arab Emirates (joined 2024) and Indonesia (joined 2025). Saudi Arabia was invited in 2023 but has not confirmed membership and is left out. Today's members are applied to every year, so the line shows how these economies grew, not how the bloc's membership changed. A year is published only when every member and the world total have reported it, so the latest year can lag (the UAE has not yet reported 2025).

## Why it matters

It is the figure behind the claim that BRICS now outweighs the G7. Read it beside bloc.g7.gdp_share_world.ppp.

## How to read it

It rose from 20.1% in 1990 to 38.3% in 2024, its highest (2024 is the latest year every member has reported). These economies passed the G7 (bloc.g7.gdp_share_world.ppp) in 2012; the G7 was 28.6% in 2024. Purchasing-power parity values each economy at what its output would cost in U.S. prices, which raises lower-income economies relative to market exchange rates. It is the better measure of how much each economy produces; market rates are the better measure of buying power abroad, debt and trade.

## What it does not say

It is not a measure of the bloc acting together: BRICS has no common market, currency or treasury, and China is about half of the total. At market exchange rates the G7 is still far larger (bloc.brics.gdp_share_world.usd).

## 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.