What Is the Richest Country In the World and Which Country Has the Highest Gross National Product?
The United States is the world’s richest country, followed by Japan. Economists measure a country’s wealth by looking at the total value of the goods and services it produces each year. They call this the GNP, which stands for gross national product. In 2000, the United States had the world’s highest GNP by far, nearly $9 trilli