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China is now world's third-largest economy

Updated on: 14 January,2009 04:41 PM IST  | 
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China has taken Germany's spot as the world's third largest economy after the United States and Japan, statistics released Wednesday showed.

China is now world's third-largest economy

China has taken Germany's spot as the world's third largest economy after the United States and Japan, statistics released Wednesday showed.



Beijing's national statistics office released corrected figures for the year 2007, revising the gross domestic product (GDP) growth upwards from 11.9 per cent to 13 per cent, the largest increase since 1993.



Total GDP figures were revised upwards by 777.6 billion yuan ($113.8 billion) or 3.1 per cent, to 25.73 trillion yuan, thereby overtaking Germany's output, experts said.


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