India is now 10th largest economy

India is now amongst the top ten economies in the world.According to the World Bank gross domestic product rankings for the year 2004, India stands the tenth largest economy in the world with a GDP of $691.876 billion.The table below gives the rankings for the top 20 economies in the world.The rest of the rankings can be had at the World Bank Web site for the GDP figures:
http://www.worldbank.org/data/quickreference/quickref.html

Total GDP 2004
Rank	Country	($ billion)
1	United States	11,667.515
2	Japan	4,623.398
3	Germany	2,714.418
4	United Kingdom	2,140.898
5	France	2,002.582
6	Italy	1,672.302
7	China	1,649.329
8	Spain	991.442
9	Canada	979.764
10	India	691.876
11	South Korea	679.674
12	Mexico	676.497
13	Australia	631.256
14	Brazil	604.855
15	Russia	582.395
16	Netherlands	577.260
17	Switzerland	359.465
18	Belgium	349.830
19	Sweden	346.404
20	Turkey	301.950

Source: World Bank, July 2005

Taiwan is not included in the World Bank statistics. Rankings include only those economies with confirmed GDP estimates.