Is France now the seventh largest economy after the United Kingdom and India?

Question. There can be nothing simpler in appearance than comparing the economic power of countries: you should look at the rankings of official international financial institutions such as the International Monetary Fund or the World Bank. This is exactly what Eric Ciotti did this weekend. Coming out of their usual comfort zone and centralized worries Security and immigration, Alpes Maritimes’s subsidiary (LR) posted this tweet: “After five years of decline and downgrade, France is now the seventh largest economy by the United Kingdom and India, according to the IMF.”

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Also, to prove the veracity of his figures, the opponent of Valérie Pécresse joined the primary contest organized by Les Républicains last month. An IMF ranking. It studies the GDP of 197 member states from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe by 2021. The table is a very useful document and should be carefully considered because it is often referred to …