Figure 4. Illustration of economic and demographic growth of six countries/regions up to 2050 (after Goldman Sachs, 2003)

CHINA 2050

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When will China become the world's largest economy?

With annual GDP growth rates of 9-10% for 30 years, China has quickly become the second largest economy in the world, overtaking all but the United States.

Even with China slowing, its economy is still expanding at double the pace of America's.

The power of compound growth, growing at 7% means the Chinese economy will double in size in about a decade. That would bring the Chinese economy to the same size as America's is now.

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CHINA AT 2050

(CNN) -- Since the establishment of the People's Republic in 1949, China has gone through some of the most dramatic changes in its history. Analysts believe the next 50 years will bring another series of radical shifts in China, affecting its people, its government and the world.

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• China is poised to overtake the US as the world's largest economy this year, earlier than expected.

• "The United States remained the world's largest economy, but it was closely followed by China when measured using purchasing power parity," the ICP said in its report.

• According to expectations from the IMF for growth between 2011 and 2014, that would put China ahead of the US this year.