Brazil to overtake United Kingdom as 6th-largest economy

Brazil will overtake the UK to become the world’s sixth biggest economy this year, according to new projections

By Robin Yapp, in Sao Paulo
The Telegraph

Oct. 31, 2011
The Latin American giant’s GDP for 2011 is expected to hit $2.44 trillion (£1.51 trillion) compared with $2.43 trillion for the UK, the latest monthly forecasts from the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) show.

This will see Brazil, which last year overtook Italy to become the world’s seventh biggest economy, move up one more place to sixth with the UK falling to seventh.

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