Why a G20 Tracker?

The G20 comprises 19 individual countries as well as the European Union and African Union. It is a significant grouping. The G20 economies have a total GDP of USD97tr in 2024, 88% of the global total; a population of 6.4 billion, 80% of the world total; and account for 84% of the world’s CO2 emissions. In a world which, despite pressures to the contrary, is increasingly globalised looking at this broad range of economies is particularly important. Economists often concentrate on developments in just the big economies, with a particular emphasis on the US. Developments elsewhere increasingly cannot be ignored.

We have put together this tracker of G20 economies to provide an easily accessible source of information on the constituent countries and groupings. It comprises our thoughts on current and longer-term developments (written by a human), key data on each economy (from a broad range of national and international sources) and a SWOT analysis (using ChatGPT).

It is a project developed by Paul Temperton at Tier Company with the help of summer interns over the last three years, notably Hubert Kucharski and Harvey Mordue, both economics students at Leeds University.

We hope it will be a useful source of information for a wide range of people
interested in developments in the global economy.