60 years of waiting for the U.S. economy to be overtaken

Percentage of U.S. GDP

THE GLOBE AND MAIL Source: Source: USSR data extrapolated from 1961 edition of Paul Samuelson's "Economics: An Introductory Analysis" as detailed by David Levy and Sandra Peart's 2009 paper, "Soviet Growth & American Textbooks". Russian Federation, Japan and China share's from IMF