São Paulo – In 2012, Brazil lost its post as the 6th main economy in the world to the UK, a country that had been overtaken in the ranking elaborated by the Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR) in 2011. In the study disclosed on Wednesday (26), the institution says that Brazil has lost its post to the British due to the depreciation of the Brazilian real, but the organisation also forecasts that by 2022 the Brazilian economy should have become more dynamic and overtaken not just the UK, but also that of France and Germany. On the other hand, the country should have been overtaken by India, to climb to the 4th rung by 2022.
According to the study, the three main economies of the world today, the United States, China and Japan, should remain at the top of the list for the next ten years. However, there should be many changes from the fourth place on. The Germans, who are now in this position, should drop to the 6th place in 2022. Russia, in turn, which in 2012 was the 9th main economy, should climb to 7th in 2022. The United Kingdom should slide to the 8th position, France (currently the 5th economy) should be the 9th, and Indonesia, currently in 16th place, should climb to the top ten by 2022.
According to the CEBR, the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of Brazil in 2012 reached US$ 2.2 trillion and that of the UK is US$ 2.4 trillion. In 2022, the Brazilian GDP should reach US$ 4.3 trillion and the British, US$ 4.06 trillion. Among the Arab countries, only Saudi Arabia is in the top 30 economies. Currently, the country is in the 19th position in the world, and it should overtake the Netherlands and climb to the 18th by 2022.
*Translated by Mark Ament
