From Third World country to third most powerful nation

[pampango]

Source: Times of India

Issued jointly by the US National Intelligence Council (NIC) and the European Union's Institute for Security Studies (EUISS), the report "Global Governance 2025" says the United States remains the world's most powerful country in 2010, accounting for nearly 22 per cent of the global power.

It is followed by China (12 per cent), and India (eight per cent). Japan, Russia and Brazil with less than five per cent each. Taken as a bloc, European Union comes second with 16 per cent of global power.

But an "International Futures model" measuring GDP, defense, spending, population and technology for individual states projects the relative political and economic clout of many countries will shift by 2025. The power of the US, EU, Japan and Russia would decline while that of China, India and Brazil would increase, even though there would be no change in the power list.

By 2025, the United States' share of global power would decline from 22 per cent to 18 per cent, while China would rise up from 12 per cent to 16 per cent to displace EU (down to 14 per cent), making U.S and China as close 1-2. India will remain in third or fourth positions (depending on whether EU bloc is counted in or not) with its share of global power going up to ten per cent.

Read more: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/From-Third-World-country-to-third-most-powerful-nation/articleshow/6603835.cms

[geckosfeet]

1. Hit man for the world - an admirable aspiration for any fading global power

[patrick t. cakes]

11. +1

[On the Road]

2. It's Surprising India Was So High

but it's probably because population was part of the equation. Same reason China was ahead of the EU.

[Posteritatis]

8. The EU isn't a single state too

If it was one entity that regularly acted in concert that'd be another matter, of course.

[rayofreason]

13. India...

...is one of the great centers of civilization since antiquity. No surprise that, like China, it would take its rightful place in the world once the historical anomaly of European dominance erodes.

[karynnj]

15. China isn't ahead of the EU if I read this mess of an article correctly

At this point, China is 12% and the EU is 14. This is tough to see as the EU number is just in the paragraph projecting the 2025 numbers. Not to mention, I doubt there is a clear cut metric that those numbers are based on.

[Art_from_Ark]

18. EU is currently 16%, projected to go down to 14%

China is currently 12%, projected to go up to 16%

And yes, it was a mess of an article

[depakid]

3. India can't even manage to set up the Commonwealth games- while China is the poster child

for overshoot and collapse.

Somehow that doesn't build much confidence in the personnel or agencies that issue such reports.

[closeupready]

6. +1.

n/t

[hfojvt]

4. too bad the reverse seems to be true as well

from most powerful nation to third world country

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arianna-huffington/third-world-america-why-i_b_706673.html

http://www.koch2congress.com/5.html

[dotymed]

5. +1000

:wtf:

[Romulox]

16. There's a causal relationship between the two facts... nt

[closeupready]

7. For some reason, I'm not worried.

n/t

[JackRiddler]

9. They got that in percentages, eh? Awesome.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

10. Best guess: Horseshit.

:shrug:

[BOG PERSON]

12. sooo dumb.

no way in hell is naked, starving india a world power. it's a regional power definitely, because it is so damn BIG and it has the bomb. but it's got too many enemies, totally unacceptable levels of corruption, and it's only held together by force of arms.

[HughBeaumont]

14. "You're welcome."

:mad:

[Lagomorph]

17. "Let China sleep...

...for when she awakes,
she will shake the world" -Napoleon Bonaparte