If the Fortune 500 were a country...

It would be the world's second-biggest economy. And one of the fastest-growing ones, too � this year. See how total sales at America's 500 largest corporations stack up against GDP among the world's biggest and fastest-growing economies over the past decade.

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GDP in trillions of U.S. dollars.
 
U.S.
$15.1
 
$11.8
 
China
$7.3
 
Japan
$5.9
 
Germany
$3.6
 
France
$2.8
 
Brazil
$2.5
 
U.K.
$2.4
 
Italy
$2.2
 
Russia
$1.9

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