Third of the world GDP is generated in metropolitan areas of the planet

Finansy09-11-2009 One-third of global GDP is created in cities world GDP the largest cities in countries with developing economies will grow rapidly. In 2008 the 100 largest cities in the world had 30% of global gross domestic product, and some of the city's largest economy are greater than average in the country such as Sweden and Switzerland. The Russian capital in this ranking for three years has done a fairly steep path, moving from 25 seats to 15 positions. Data provided by research firm PricewaterhouseCoopers, are based on UN statistics on the population for 2008 and estimated GDP per capita at purchasing power parity (PPP). The ranking is led Japanese Tokyo, which last year produced goods and services amounting to $ 1.479 trillion. The next three positions confidently monitor U.S. metropolitan areas: New York ($ 1.406 trillion), Los Angeles ($ 792 billion), Chicago ($ 574 billion). The volume of the economy of each of the first two cities was in the past year, almost $ 1.5 trillion dollars, which is almost equivalent to the size of the economy of a country like Spain.