U.S. economic strength, how strong

U.S. government statistics published in 2001, U.S. gross domestic product of 10.2 trillion. In the third quarter of 2002 to an annual rate of the U.S. gross domestic product of about 10.5 trillion. Judging from the economic growth rate is not fast, but from the absolute value of the growth is still very substantial. In 2002 compared with 2001, preliminary estimates of growth in value may also be in the upper and lower 300,000,000,000 U.S. dollars, equivalent to about all the African countries of GDP a year. With the U.S. economy and other Western countries compare may be easier to see in the world economy that it's an important position. Released by the World Bank in the 2002 "World Development Indicators" report statistics as an example: in 2000 the world's gross national income to the income that is measured by the gross national product of 31.3 trillion. 9,600,000,000,000 U.S. dollars for the United States, the world's total revenue of more than 30 percent, ranked first; in second place as Japan's 4.5 trillion, accounting for the world's total revenue of nearly 15%, less than half of the United States ; Germany ranked third with a total value of more than 20,000 billion U.S. dollars, less than half of Japan. 7 largest economy in western countries, Germany, Britain, France, Italy and Canada, 5 countries, the total combined income of less than 6,800,000,000,000 U.S. dollars, only 70% of the United States. Even with Japan, 6 countries, the total income of only 11,300,000,000,000 U.S. dollars, only one country more than the United States nearly 1,700,000,000,000 U.S. dollars. As a comparison, the U.S. economy in the world economy where how important it is, the more clearly seen. Why is the United States in the world, such a "cow" is not hard to understand. As the United States can not let the world listen to it, and that is another matter.