What is BRIC economical potential?
The Goldman Sachs global economics team released a follow-up
report to its initial BRIC study in 2004.[8]The report states that
in BRIC nations, the number of people with an annual income over a
threshold of $3,000, will double in number within three years and
reach 800 million people within a decade. This predicts a massive
rise in the size of the middle class in these nations. In 2025, it
is calculated that the number of people in BRIC nations earning
over $15,000 may reach over 200 million. This indicates that a huge
pickup in demand will not be restricted to basic goods but impact
higher-priced goods as well. According to the report, first China
and then a decade later India will begin to dominate the world
economy. Yet despite the balance of growth, swinging so decisively
towards the BRIC economies, the average wealth level of individuals
in the more advanced economies will continue to far outstrip the
BRIC economy average. Goldman Sachs estimates that by 2025 the
income per capita in the G6 will exceed $35,000, whereas only about
24 million people in the BRIC economies will have similar income
levels. The report also highlights India's great inefficiency in
energy use and mentions the dramatic under-representation of these
economies in the global capital markets. The report also emphasizes
the enormous populations that exist within the BRIC nations, which
makes it relatively easy for their aggregate wealth to eclipse the
G6, while per-capita income levels remain far below the norm of
today's industrialized countries. This phenomenon, too, will affect
world markets as multinational corporations will attempt to take
advantage of the enormous potential markets in the BRICs by
producing, for example, far cheaper automobiles and other
manufactured goods affordable to the consumers within the BRICs in
lieu of the luxury models that currently bring the most income to
automobile manufactures. India and China have already started
making their presence felt in the service and manufacturing sector
respectively in the global arena. Developed economies of the world
have already taken a serious note of the fact. The Goldman Sachs
global economics team released a follow-up report to its initial
BRIC study in 2004.[8]The report states that in BRIC nations, the
number of people with an annual income over a threshold of $3,000,
will double in number within three years and reach 800 million
people within a decade. This predicts a massive rise in the size of
the middle class in these nations. In 2025, it is calculated that
the number of people in BRIC nations earning over $15,000 may reach
over 200 million. This indicates that a huge pickup in demand will
not be restricted to basic goods but impact higher-priced goods as
well. According to the report, first China and then a decade later
India will begin to dominate the world economy. Yet despite the
balance of growth, swinging so decisively towards the BRIC
economies, the average wealth level of individuals in the more
advanced economies will continue to far outstrip the BRIC economy
average. Goldman Sachs estimates that by 2025 the income per capita
in the G6 will exceed $35,000, whereas only about 24 million people
in the BRIC economies will have similar income levels. The report
also highlights India's great inefficiency in energy use and
mentions the dramatic under-representation of these economies in
the global capital markets. The report also emphasizes the enormous
populations that exist within the BRIC nations, which makes it
relatively easy for their aggregate wealth to eclipse the G6, while
per-capita income levels remain far below the norm of today's
industrialized countries. This phenomenon, too, will affect world
markets as multinational corporations will attempt to take
advantage of the enormous potential markets in the BRICs by
producing, for example, far cheaper automobiles and other
manufactured goods affordable to the consumers within the BRICs in
lieu of the luxury models that currently bring the most income to
automobile manufactures. India and China have already started
making their presence felt in the service and manufacturing sector
respectively in the global arena. Developed economies of the world
have already taken a serious note of the fact.