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Which 5 countries were the largest economies in the world by nominal GDP in the year 2000

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Via the IMF by way of Wikipedia

  1. United States
  2. Japan
  3. Germany
  4. United Kingdom
  5. France

In the half decade between 1995 and 2000, the list of the world’s four largest economies as measured by nominal GDP in $US remained unchanged in either composition or sequence. The identity of the world’s forth and fifth largest economies, switched such that the United Kingdom became ranked as number four and France ranked as number five as estimated by the International Monetary Fund.

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Though Utah is very conservative, its residents generally don’t romanticize rugged individualism or Darwinian hyper-capitalism. It has the lowest income inequality in the country, and ranks near the top for upward mobility. The relative lack of racial diversity no doubt helps skew these metrics—structural racism doesn’t take the same toll in a state that is 78 percent white. But economists say the tightly networked faith communities have provided a crucial extra layer to the social safety net.
~ McKay Coppins via The Atlantic

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