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"Over the next 50 years, Brazil, Russia, India and China—the BRICs economies—could become a much
larger force in the world economy. We map out GDP growth, income per capita and currency movements in the BRICs economies until 2050.
The results are startling. At the projected pace, in less than 40 years, the BRICs economies together could be larger than the G6 in US dollar terms. By 2025, they could account for more than half the size of the G6. Of the current G6, only the US and Japan may be among the six largest economies in US dollar terms in 2050. The list of the world's ten largest economies may look quite different in 2050. The largest economies in the world (by GDP) may no longer be the richest (by income per capita), making strategic choices for firms more complex.
As early as 2009, the annual increase in US dollar spending from the BRICs could be greater than that from
the G6 and more than twice as much in dollar terms as it is now. By 2025 the annual increase in US dollar
spending from the BRICs could be twice that of the G6, and four times higher by 2050."
These 2003 predictions of Goldman Sachs are rapidly turning into reality...
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