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Originally Posted by northface
No i have them correct. According to PPP India comes after the US, China, Japan. So it is the 4th largest economy. Militarily it will be a little subjective. We could possible debate that in some other thread. It would'nt have much relevence either to India's case or to this thread.
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PPP! I'm so sick of PPP. Tell you what. You give me one real dollar. In exchange, I will give you one billion PPP dollars. Get it? It's a skewed yardstick that has absolute zero meaning in the real world. You can't buy a fridge with PPP dollars and its measurement ONLY have meaning within India. It certainly does NOT make India the 4th most powerful nor the 4th largest in the world because India does not trade as the 4th most powerful economy in the world. So, that measure doesn't mean squat in world power terms.
2ndly, India has the 4th LARGEST military in the world according to the CIA. It certainly does not translate to the the 4th most powerful.