The Russian Federation upstaged Germany and settled on the fifth rank in the list of the countries in terms of the gross domestic product’s absolute value. The top list is drawn up by independent international agencies on the basis of the detailed analysis of the business environment and actual production output. While reckoning, it is also important to take into account the actual purchasing power of a national currency. Referring to the data provided by the World Bank’s analysts, the GDP figures in Russia ran at $3.38 trillion last year versus $3.30 trillion in Germany. Previously, Russia occupied line 8 in the list, but the swelling GDP capacity enabled it to move three points closer to the top. For a few years in a row, the U.S.A., being the leading economy worldwide, has been keeping the top position — $15.684 trillion, China is considered as the second best again — $12.674 trillion. India and Japan are the other two Asian counterparts that settled on the third and fourth ranks — $4.7 trillion and $4.4 trillion accordingly. It should be noted in particular that China has been showing the highest figures of the economic growth for the recent 8 years, being the largest one on a global scale. For reference, in 2005 its GDP capacity was equal to 137% of the Japanese one; in 7 years, the Chinese GDP figures surged virtually twice and made up 277% in 2012. Despite the fact, that China’s National Bureau of Statistics has recorded the slowdown in the growth rate by 7.5% this year, the economic boosting in China remains one of the most notable among the countries of the top 10 GDP list.