The G7 is Looking More and More American 🇺🇸

What We’re Showing:

This chart shows the value of the G7's combined PPP-adjusted GDP in 2024, broken down by each member state’s share.

Data sourced from the International Monetary Fund (2024), and all figures are in International dollars.

Key Takeaways

The G7 used to be a slightly more equal group back in the 1980s, but it’s slowly becoming a one-country show.

The U.S. alone accounts for more than half of the combined G7 output in PPP-adjusted terms.

With market-exchange rates, it’s closer to 60%.

Of course GDP isn’t everything. American life expectancies used to be higher than Europe in 1980, now they’re almost a full year less.

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Per capita metrics show a similar American outperformance. Check out America’s Richest and Poorest States vs the G7 to see how it all breaks down.