Source: The Economist, November 15th 2003, p. 67.

Share of Global GDP Growth, 1995-2002

Since the mid 1990s, the dynamism of the global economy as shifted to Pacific Asia, which accounted for about 45% of the recent GDP growth. China alone accounted for 25% of the global growth of the GDP between 1995 and 2002, surpassing the United States (20%) and the European Union (14%).

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