G7 Share of World GDP (PPP)

## What this measures

The combined GDP of the G7, at purchasing-power parity, as a percent of world GDP. The G7 is the United States, Japan, Germany, the United Kingdom, France, Italy and Canada. A year is published only when every member and the world total have reported it.

## Why it matters

Set beside bloc.brics.gdp_share_world.ppp, it shows the shift in where the world's output is produced.

## How to read it

It fell from 45.7% in 1990 to 28.1% in 2025, its lowest. BRICS passed it in 2012. 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

A falling share is not a falling economy: G7 output has grown, just more slowly than the world's.

## 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.