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France and Britain were vying for fifth place on the list of the world's biggest economies on Wednesday, with France nudging ahead after a renewed slump in the pound in the wake of the Brexit vote, Reuters calculations showed.
Britain's gross domestic product stood at 1.864 trillion pounds in 2015, according to the last available figures from the International Monetary Fund.
The average exchange rate for the year in question is commonly used for comparisons between countries. But using the current exchange rate, France has pulled slightly ahead.
With the pound falling below 1.17 euros overnight for the first time since 2013, that means the size of the British economy in 2015 is now equivalent to 2.172 trillion euros - less than France's official GDP of 2.182 trillion euros last year.
they're still lapdogs to ze Germans though, now we are not there to protect them give it another 5 years and the Germans will be all over Paris again circa 1942.
they're still lapdogs to ze Germans though, now we are not there to protect them give it another 5 years and the Germans will be all over Paris again circa 1942.
Don t forget that the UK contrary to France added drug and prostitution into GDP for the last 15 years which means 47 billion euros more into GDP.
France is the only European country which never took into account drug and prostitution.
France in 2015 = 2182 billion euros
UK in 2015 = 2129 billion euros + 43 billion euros of drug and prostitution = 2172
Infact Uk never overtook France...
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