From: "John Beamish" 

US is scheduled to hit 300,000,000 this month

On Thu, 05 Oct 2006 06:29:14 -0400, Adam  wrote:

> Geo wrote:
>> "Adam"  wrote in message
>> news:4523582b$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>>
>>> 1 in 5 global consumers is Chinese. That's quite a domestic market.
>>  Not yet it's not. But it does have potential.
>
>
> Nope, that's quite a domestic market.
>
> It will be the 4th largest this year. Next year probably the 3'rd
> largest.
>
> The initial estimate was for it to be the biggest by 2040 but the
> figures keep being revised up by the PRC & thus the timescale keeps
> coming down.
>
> Now were the US to suffer from a housing driven slowdown then it is
> possible this may decrease the timescale once more.
>
>
>>
>>> That puts China into sixth place in terms of economic size, ahead of
>>> Italy and close behind the UK and France.
>>  What is the gdp of the top 10? I always thought the UK was kinda
>> small, how
>> large a population does it have?
>>
>
> 60 million give or take.
>
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/5281360.stm
>
> "The UK's population has broken through the 60 million barrier for the
> first time, figures show.
>
> The Office for National Statistics said the number rose 0.6% to 60.2
> million in the year to June 2005. England accounts for 50.4 million of
> the total. "
>
> & we're on an upward track esp as most of the East European new EU
> mobile workers are coming here.
>
> But the UK econ is bigger than it would appear due to our open trading
> nature e.g. we own sh*tloads of assets outside of the UK & have
> since.........
>
> OK so we gave India, Virginia etc over to the natives but that doesn't
> mean we gave em the tobacco, coffee etc companies.
>
>
>
>
> Adam

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