According to a World Bank report, India has replaced Japan to become the world's third biggest economy in terms of purchasing power parity (PPP). The World Bank's International Comparison Program (ICP) 2014 ranked India at third place behind the US and China and reported India's share in World GDP at 6.4% to $5.75 trillion in 2011 compared with China's at 14.9% and the US at 17.1%.The ranking was based on PPP in dollar terms, under which economies and incomes of people compared by adjusting exchange to correct the differences in prices in different countries to make a meaningful comparison.
India was placed ahead of Japan because its currency was valued at 15.11 a dollar on a PPP basis in 2011, while the East Asian nation's currency was pegged at 107.45 to a dollar. The last World Bank survey took place in 2005 and placed India at 10th place.
The report further added that the spread of per capita actual individual consumption as a percentage of the US has reduced, indicating that the world has become more equal. It further highlighted that economies must be valued at a common price level and expressed in a common currency. Presently, countries estimate their GDP at national price levels and in national currencies which are not comparable. The report will help World Bank to compare poverty levels across countries as National poverty assessments differ because the purchasing power of national currencies differs from one economy to another.
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