World’s top economies in 2050 will be... China, US, India - Polidicks

[img]http://i.somethingawful.com/forumsystem/emoticons/emot-italy.gif[/img] our economy is failing

[QUOTE=Mindtwistah;34189240]:( Time to learn Chinese and move before everything goes to shit.[/QUOTE] The Scandinavian countries should just team up and form an own union or even a COUNTRY. Would probably dominate Earth after a few months. After a few years the Scandinavian country rename Earth to Ásgarðr and rediscovers magic lost in time. Heretics will be thrown to Jǫtunheimr, while weaker and less intelligent beings of Ásgarðr gets thrown into a newly colonized planet called Earth.

[QUOTE=lapsus_;34191238][img]http://i.somethingawful.com/forumsystem/emoticons/emot-italy.gif[/img] our economy is failing[/QUOTE] sell more pizzas germany has been taking over your pizza business come on hitler copied mussolini and now germany is copying your pizzas? thats fighting talk [editline]13th January 2012[/editline] [QUOTE=Swebonny;34191286]The Scandinavian countries should just team up and form an own union or even a COUNTRY. Would probably dominate Earth after a few months. After a few years the Scandinavian country rename Earth to Ásgarðr and rediscovers magic lost in time. Heretics will be thrown to Jǫtunheimr, while weaker and less intelligent beings of Ásgarðr gets thrown into a newly colonized planet called Earth.[/QUOTE] Well that happened before and it didn't go so well Plus when that oil goes HAVE FUN WITH THAT. norways already run out of butter its the end for scandinavian prosperity. [editline]13th January 2012[/editline] Also I like the fact that Britain has not moved anywhere by 2050 in terms of power yet France has just completely fucking gone down 4 places (currently 5th).

Above the French, that is all that matters to me. Damn French!

[QUOTE=Swebonny;34191199]That's not what the real estate bubble is about. One, two, three or even twenty ghost cities isn't what makes a nation collapse and fall back a hundred years. How many ghost cities are there really? Two?[/QUOTE]Five, if I remember correctly, and [url=http://www.businessinsider.com/chinese-ghost-cities-2011-5]twenty more[/url] planned over the next decade. Well. okay, maybe a hundred years was an overestimate, but have millions of properties that no one is buying, or can afford to buy; is inherently putting your economy on the chopping block.

[QUOTE=ExplodingGuy;34191383]Five, if I remember correctly, and [url=http://www.businessinsider.com/chinese-ghost-cities-2011-5]twenty more[/url] planned over the next decade. Well. okay, maybe a hundred years was an overestimate, but have millions of properties that no one is buying, or can afford to buy; is inherently putting your economy on the chopping block.[/QUOTE] Ah, I was thinking for a while and now I got your point with the real estate bubble thing. Stupid of me, the sole reason that there are ghost cities are because the prices are too high and can't be affordable by normal citizens. China does indeed have an estate bubble, and it's going to burst just like any other bubble. Heh just didn't see the connection between the ghost cities when you linked the video.

Meanwhile in the People's republic of China [video=youtube;g5yFs07y7mQ]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5yFs07y7mQ[/video] (from 0:00 to 01:03)

None of those pesky Nordic countries are on a list or first for once. (I hope my Viking overlords don't hurt me by saying this)

I find it silly to predict such a large timescale. All kinds of stuff could happen, for better or for worse, war or jumps in technology.

[QUOTE=Doctor Zedacon;34191030]I'm not sure how people are seriously saying I am wrong about my first post. Everything that I said is true. But further more, China and it's economy is actually heavily dependent on the U.S. (as well as the rest of the Western world, but particularly the U.S.) and the nature of it basically means they can't over take us. What you hear about China surpassing the U.S. or how China could crush us because they own the debt, its all bullshit. At best, its misinformed. It is called media sensationalism. We have a forum dedicated to the stuff.[/QUOTE] Not to mention that WE American's actually hold the greatest percentage of our own debt. Everyone is quick to claim that China does, but in reality they just hold the largest share among foreign countries. The American people hold a greater share than every other foreign country [B]combined[/B].

Spain will be number 14? I wasn't expecting it to be so high. And apparently it was no. 12 in 2010. How does that work with the fucking recession?

Can someone seriously explain to me why France will go down 4 places? That seems quite a big fall.

38 years is a long time, especially when it comes to the economies. Don't think it's predictable at all. Less than 40 years ago China had a small-ass economy without a relevant share of the global economy, I think that says a lot. Same with the prediction that Japan's economy will keep growing like it did before.

[QUOTE=Swebonny;34191286]The Scandinavian countries should just team up and form an own union or even a COUNTRY. Would probably dominate Earth after a few months. After a few years the Scandinavian country rename Earth to Ásgarðr and rediscovers magic lost in time. Heretics will be thrown to Jǫtunheimr, while weaker and less intelligent beings of Ásgarðr gets thrown into a newly colonized planet called Earth.[/QUOTE] Kalmar Union 2.0 [editline]13th January 2012[/editline] [QUOTE=Nikota;34189690]China's not going to be at that level. It's going to go through a bunch of economic turmoil in the coming decades.[/QUOTE] How can you be so sure?

because of the [I][B]REASONS[/B][/I]

lol india

I see many poeple posting ''time to learn Chinese'', but I really don't think you should rate the livability of a country just based on their GDP.

America could probably sustain itself for awhile near the top if we actually fixed our fucking political situation and properly utilized our own natural resources. . . For example California has a nice deposit of rare earth metals, you mine those in large amounts and build proper factories to utilize these materials; And you would probably be able to manufacture some seriously high tech equipment there instead of outsourcing it to places like Southern Asia.

Poland is too high. :v: And I wouldn't be so sure about India. I'd say put it below Germany and Japan. But nobody knows how thing will be.

top economy =/= best country to live in

I can't believe that norway or sweden would go down that much in the future.

It's inconceivable for the yanks to imagine NOT being number one, let's wait and see f these calculations are true.

[QUOTE=Niklas;34193218]I can't believe that norway or sweden would go down that much in the future.[/QUOTE] Why not? Their economies aren't that big, because of their low population. All it needs is a country with many times the population of a Scandinavian country and an economic growth. Still doesn't mean that their GDP per capita will be anywhere near that of any of the Scandinavian countries.

It's going to be to imagine that if this trend continues the Chinese and Indians will be living better off than the people in the US and UK. assuming this will be percapita as well.

I'm surprised to see Poland on that list.

[QUOTE=Nikota;34189690]China's not going to be at that level. It's going to go through a bunch of economic turmoil in the coming decades.[/QUOTE] China has like ten times more manpower than the U.S.. So, if you do it right, China will come out the winner.

Russia gets better? Doubt it.

There's no way of successfully predicting economies over such a long time as 38 years. A whole shitload of things can happen in that time-span. So basically, most of this list is bullshit

itt: Kids think they know better than trained economists :v:

Where the fuck is my country. :(