GDP in current US dollars · 1960–2025 · IMF (WEO) + World Bank · 214 countries
Nominal gross domestic product measures the value of everything a country produces in a year, expressed in current dollars — that is, at the prices and exchange rate of that year. It is the indicator of the SIZE of an economy, never of the wealth of its inhabitants: it tells you a country's weight in the world economy, not the standard of living there.
Figures come from the IMF World Economic Outlook (NGDPD series) for 1980-2025, extended by the World Bank (NY.GDP.MKTP.CD) for 1960-1979, which the IMF does not cover. Both series share the same unit — current US dollars — and join without conversion. 214 countries and territories are covered. The most recent years are IMF estimates, not final national accounts.
The six bands run from under 50 billion dollars to over 5,000 billion. They are deliberately uneven: world GDP is extremely concentrated, and regular bands would leave a hundred and ninety countries in the same shade. Grey means missing data, never a GDP of zero. The time slider replays the map year by year from 1960.
Two economies alone account for more than a third of world output: the United States (about $30,800bn in 2025) and China ($19,600bn). The clearest turning point on the timeline is 2010, when China overtook Japan to become the world's second-largest economy. Watch for the exchange-rate effect: measured in current dollars, a country's GDP can fall without its output declining, simply because its currency has depreciated.