Countries with the Biggest Economies Quiz

Same! Like HOW?!?!

21/22 missed Thailand

Missed Poland...

don't worry, it's out of the list

Poland is not on the list

I forgot Italy like a fool, but I would have never guessed Iran and Indonesia. Got the rest though.

Indonesia is the 4th most populous country in the world and Iran is a huge country with lots of people that also happens to be among the top energy exporting countries in the world.

Iran WAS one of the top energy exporters...

Still is. Even with sanctions in place they are still top 10-20 in the world for exports of oil, natural gas, and electricity. They produce so much of all three that they could meet their own energy needs about 20x over for the foreseeable future, and people still believe the nuclear program is for energy.

Who are you talking to Tecumseh? I read the 4 comments above yours and don't see any criticism.

why you think that nuclear program is not only for energy?

Dudi..because I'm not a fool. Like I said they have HUGE surpluses of oil, natural gas, and electricity. They're also on the cutting edge in terms of geothermal power. Their economy is in the shitter and they have no reason at all to be investing resources into nuclear energy, especially given all the trouble this has caused for then internationally. You'd have to be an infant to think that Iran wants nuclear power to meet its energy needs.

It should be I think. It's part of the G20.

I guess the inclusion of Taiwan as a country (most lists don't count it) could have edged Saudi out. On the lists I look at Iran is also below Saudi. Maybe their economy expanded recently, but with all the sanctions that doesn't seem possible.

Most country lists still count Taiwan as a country. How is it fair that Taiwan shouldn't be counted as an independent sovereign state anymore just because China think it should belong to them.

I didn't say it was fair I just said most of the lists I looked at didn't count it.

I feel like Taiwan isn't really a sovereign state considering the UN doesn't recognize it as a state

^according to the government in Taiwan it was.

^Which it should be.

^ Yeah, I'm pretty sure the former Chinese government was pushed out by communism and they were pushed all the way out of the mainland into Taiwan. So theoretically, Taiwan is the real China and the one we know of is actually an impostor, replacement China

I don't know if the quiz has been updated, but Saudi Arabia is on the list.

Missed Taiwan!

neither did I. I'm Polish btw ;p

It's on here because the cost of living (goods and services) in Poland is relatively low, which, when using PPP as this list does, unrealistically inflates the size of the economy.

Surely when you're speaking about the size of the economy the cost of living is irrelevant?

Wombat it definitely ought to be irrelevant , but when using PPP instead of nominal GDP, it becomes very important.

mmm I missed south korea

missed japan and australia!

Sorry to admit I missed Japan. Somehow in my head I had already added it and couldn't figure out that one country high on the list that I was missing.

Missed Iran!!!

Only missed Taiwan, and I kept thinking of it and not putting it down!

100% with 1:33 remaining

How on earth did I miss Germany! It disappeared off my mental map of Europe for some reason!

How on earth did I miss Canada?!

Don't fell ashamed, I missed Italy T-T

100% with 2:55 remaining

Lol... I missed canada, spain and south korea XD! (that sucks)

ummm ... why is swaziland not up there?????!!!!!!

Swaziland is a relatively poor country in Africa that is tiny so.....

do you mean switzerland

Not GDP - this is GNP - the size of the economy, internally. Suffice it to say that it is a nuance primarily among economists only. And also that Swaziland is tiny and poor. There are companies with much higher revenues (whether worldwide or only within the US) with greater output than the entire Swazi economy.

trying to figure out if you are trolling or not...

He's completely joking. Swaziland is dirt poor.

On every list I look at Saudi Arabia is ranked 20th, while Poland is ranked 22nd-24th and Iran is ranked 22nd-32nd. What gives?

oh.... I figured it out.... that "purchasing power parity" BS.... That's baloney. Who cares how much stuff the people in the country can buy with their money? That doesn't have any objective effect on the real size of the economy compared to the rest of the world. But.. okay.

On the list of countries by proven oil reserves, Kuwait is 6th and Qatar is 14th. Singapore indeed isn't on that list, but it makes a lot of money by refining oil. So, Mufi315's list is very much understandable. :)

18/20 Missed taiwan and Poland

Got them all first try :D almost missed Italy though

got em all :)

Haaaahah..... missed 3. Spent all my time tracing mental maps of Europe, Asia, Africa, South America.... Forgot Canada and Mexico.

yeah, i made it. I couldn't believe when my country, indonesia was in that list

Agree with Kristoffer. Just because a currency's value has been intentionally manipulated doesn't render null the effects of that manipulation.

Exactly. So the fact that that manipulation doesn't render the effects of that manipulation null means that PPP, which does, gives a more meaningful measure.

It's not at all more meaningful. PPP is flat out stupid to use when comparing GDP. I'm too lazy to explain why again. Good for comparing wages. Stupid for comparing national GDP. It is not in any way immune from the vagaries of currency fluctuations it's actually affected by it quite a lot in addition to many other things that nominal GDP is not.

Poland? Really?

Missed Canada!!

HOW.DID.I.FORGET.ITALY.AND.FRANCE.

Got Taiwan but not spain. ugh....

got em Amazing how such a little Island like Taiwan has this immense economy, no wonder China is pissed off

imagine how they felt in the 1980s when Taiwan's total GDP was almost on par with China's total, and their GDP/capita was about 20x larger.

missed taiwan

19/20...... missed Taiwan

i got all but spain.

haha missed china... and indonesia, turkey, iran, taiwan

Missed South Korea, Iran, Poland & Taiwan. 80%

Got It!

2:42!

Missed Saudi Arabia only

I got all of them... except Italy... -__-

I'm very surprised that Nauru isn't up there. We all know how massive Nauru's economy is.

It's a small country in the Pacific, I don't know about that...

Damn you Taiwan!

oh I HAVE MISSED TAIWAN AND IRAN....still dont get how iran was there???

Got all of them except South Kore

Probably because you didn't spell it right...

ohh Taiwan... just that one!!

Forgot Taiwan

CANT BELIEVE I MISSED UK FRANCE TURKEY SO StUPID!

Missed Turkey Got Taiwan 1st

100% with only three seconds to spare, need to work on that. Almost missed Taiwan and South Korea!

Missed Canada and Poland, oh well.

Missed South Korea...I feel as if I always miss South Korea on everything. I'll do a mental tour of the world and manage to forget about that small but somewhat significant peninsula.

First attempt, only missed Iran

got all, i'm 12 yrs old

missed Canada

I'm from Iran. I forgot Iran. Only country I forgot. I am ashamed :(

2 things confuse me here: 1) Your choice of PPP instead of nominal. 2) The text on the front page saying "In a few more years, we might have a new #1." According to GDP PPP, China is the #1 and will remain there for decades.

But the value of those goods and services decreased substantially, as did Canadians' ability to acquire goods and services from outside of Canada, as did the Canadian government's ability to pay debts etc. This all has very real effects of the country's economic "size" in an international sense.

And, while, yes, nominal GDP is effected by currency fluctuations, PPP is hardly immune from that, as currency values have a great impact on the cost of goods and services in a country for a variety of different reasons. So, nominal GDP is affected by the vagaries of currency fluctuation, and PPP is affected by that, plus a whole set of other vagaries placed on top of that, such as tax and tariff fluctuations, wage fluctuations, oil price fluctuations, and fluctuations in the price of a cheeseburger.

An interesting solution would be to have both measures in one quiz. I'm sure there's a quiz that does this by nominal GDP already.

I miss Thailand, too.. Especially in the winter time.

All but 2! Luckily I got some of the more obvious ones :)

100% 2:30 left, why is the Netherlands not here?

100% with 30 seconds left on first try

Yay! Indonesia is on the list

missed iran and taiwan

Didn't accept ROK :(

missed Nigeria, but where is South Africa???!!!

Only missed Russia. LOL

I missed Thailand :(

Thats not the GDP, USA has biggest economy, China, FRance, RUssia, Germany, Japan... They have bigger economies in this quiz than they actually have

I was thinking of Thailand but didn't type it down!

Brazil's and Indonesia's places are out of order.

Egypt's economy is bigger than South Africa or Nigeria? After those didn't take, I tried DRC and figured I'd hit all the large African economies.

RUSSIA!

That moment when you get 20/22 but miss Japan and Thailand... AAARRRGGHH!!!!!

Oh lord, Thailand! WHYYYYYYYYYY