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The 150 richest cities in the world by GDP in 2020

11 March 2007: The tables provide GDP figures for cities and their surrounding urban areas in 2020. Most such agglomerations are economically, socially and culturally dominated by one city at their centre. Occasionally however, several cities of similar status and their suburbs make up an urban area. The GDP figures are estimated and expressed in US$, using purchasing power parity exchange rates. The estimates are based on PricewaterhouseCoopers estimates and projections as well as UN urban agglomeration definitions and population estimates. The research was carried out by PricewaterhouseCoopers.

Richest cities and urban areas in 2020

Rank	City/Urban area	Country	Est GDP in 2020 in US$bn	Est annual growth 2005-2020
1	Tokyo	Japan	1602	2.0%
2	New York	USA	1561	2.2%
3	Los Angeles	USA	886	2.2%
4	London	UK	708	3.0%
5	Chicago	USA	645	2.3%
6	Paris	France	611	1.9%
7	Mexico City	Mexico	608	4.5%
8	Philadelphia	USA	440	2.3%
9	Osaka/Kobe	Japan	430	1.6%
10	Washington DC	USA	426	2.4%
11	Buenos Aires	Argentina	416	3.6%
12	Boston	USA	413	2.4%
13	Sao Paulo	Brazil	411	4.1%
14	Hong Kong	China	407	3.5%
15	Dallas/Fort Worth	USA	384	2.4%
16	Shanghai	China	360	6.5%
17	Seoul	South Korea	349	3.2%
18	Atlanta	USA	347	2.6%
19	San Francisco/Oakland	USA	346	2.4%
20	Houston	USA	339	2.5%
21	Miami	USA	331	2.4%
22	Toronto	Canada	327	3.0%
23	Moscow	Russia	325	4.0%
24	Mumbai	India	300	6.0%
25	Madrid	Spain	299	3.2%
26	Detroit	USA	287	2.3%
27	Istanbul	Turkey	287	5.2%
28	Seattle	USA	269	2.5%
29	Beijing	China	259	6.6%
30	Metro Manila	Philippines	257	5.9%
31	Rio de Janeiro	Brazil	256	4.1%
32	Sydney	Australia	256	2.7%
33	Jakarta	Indonesia	253	6.5%
34	Delhi	India	229	6.2%
35	Phoenix	USA	228	2.5%
36	Guangzhou	China	227	6.9%
37	Minneapolis	USA	224	2.5%
38	Kolkata	India	224	5.9%
39	San Diego	USA	220	2.4%
40	Singapore	Singapore	218	3.6%
41	Cairo	Egypt	212	5.3%
42	Barcelona	Spain	201	2.4%
43	Melbourne	Australia	200	2.6%
44	Denver	USA	190	2.6%
45	Rome	Italy	187	2.9%
46	Bangkok	Thailand	180	4.8%
47	Montreal	Canada180	180	2.8%
48	Milan	Italy	174	2.8%
49	Tehran	Iran	172	4.5%
50	Riyadh	Saudi Arabia	167	5.0%
51	Pusan	South Korea	165	3.8%
52	Bogotá	Colombia	163	4.3%
53	Santiago	Chile	160	3.8%
54	Monterrey	Mexico	157	4.8%
55	Baltimore	USA	157	2.4%
56	Tel Aviv-Jaffa	Israel	153	3.5%
57	St Petersburg	Russia	151	3.9%
58	St Louis	USA	146	2.5%
59	Tampa/St Petersburg	USA	142	2.5%
60	Johannesburg	South Africa	131	3.4%
61	Lisbon	Portugal	130	3.3%
62	Cleveland	USA	129	2.4%
63	Belo Horizonte	Brazil	129	4.6%
64	Portland	USA	128	2.6%
65	Vienna	Austria	127	2.1%
66	Karachi	Pakistan	127	5.8%
67	Dhaka	Bangladesh	126	6.1%
68	Lima	Peru	123	4.2%
69	Vancouver	Canada	121	2.9%
70	Cape Town	South Africa	121	3.3%
71	Stockholm	Sweden	121	3.2%
72	Guadalajara	Mexico	119	4.6%
73	Pittsburgh	USA	115	2.4%
74	Tianjin	China	112	6.3%
75	Jiddah	Saudi Arabia	111	4.8%
76	Bangalore	India	110	6.2%
77	Dublin	Ireland	99	4.8%
78	Ho Chi Min City	Vietnam	98	6.5%
79	Birmingham	UK	96	2.0%
80	Wuhan	China	96	6.4%
81	Fukuoka	Japan	96	2.0%
82	Manchester	UK	96	2.2%
83	Hyderabad	India	92	6.1%
84	Chennai	India	91	6.0%
85	Athens	Greece	91	1.5%
86	Berlin	Germany	88	1.1%
87	Ankara	Turkey	87	5.0%
88	Chongqing	China	87	6.3%
89	Lyon	France	85	2.8%
90	Turin	Italy	84	2.5%
91	Porto Alegre	Brazil	82	4.3%
92	Brasilia	Brazil	82	5.1%
93	Warsaw	Poland	80	3.5%
94	Ahmadabad	India	78	6.2%
95	Hamburg	Germany	78	2.0%
96	Recife	Brazil	77	4.4%
97	Pune	India	76	6.3%
98	Lagos	Nigeria	76	6.2%
99	Salvador	El Salvador	75	4.6%
100	Munich	Germany	73	2.6%
101	Fortaleza	Brazil	73	4.6%
102	Algiers	Algeria	73	5.0%
103	Hanoi	Vietnam	73	6.6%
104	Bandung	Indonesia	69	6.7%
105	Naples	Italy	69	3.2%
106	Curitiba	Brazil	68	4.9%
107	Shenyang	China	68	6.3%
108	Leeds	UK	67	2.2%
109	Lahore	Pakistan	67	5.9%
110	Alexandria	Egypt	66	5.4%
111	East Rand	South Africa	65	3.5%
112	Medellin	Colombia	65	4.4%
113	Helsinki	Finland	65	2.7%
114	Izmir	Turkey	62	4.9%
115	Auckland	New Zealand	61	2.6%
116	Zurich	Switzerland	61	2.4%
117	Amsterdam	Netherlands	60	2.5%
118	Prague	Czech Republic	58	3.2%
119	Surat	India	57	6.5%
120	Rotterdam	Netherlands	57	2.4%
121	Copenhagen	Denmark	56	2.1%
122	Brussels	Belgium	55	2.2%
123	Chengdu	China	51	6.3%
124	Khartoum	Sudan	51	5.6%
125	Caracas	Venezuela	50	3.9%
126	Budapest	Hungary	49	0.9%
127	Puebla	Mexico	48	4.0%
128	Xian	China	48	6.4%
129	Casablanca	Morocco	47	4.5%
130	Taegu	South Korea	45	1.9%
131	Oslo	Norway	44	2.2%
132	Changchun	China	42	6.9%
133	Kanpur	India	41	6.3%
134	Cologne	Germany	40	2.0%
135	Baghdad	Iraq	39	4.0%
136	Chittagong	Bangladesh	39	6.3%
137	Jaipur	India	38	6.4%
138	Lille	France	37	2.1%
139	Lucknow	India	35	6.3%
140	Yangon	Burma	33	4.8%
141	Luanda	Angola	29	6.0%
142	Kinshasha	Congo	25	6.4%
143	Faisalabad	Pakistan	24	6.0%
144	Abidjan	Ivory Coast	22	4.9%
145	Kabul	Afghanistan	22	6.1%
146	Nairobi	Kenya	20	6.3%
147	Addis Ababa	Ethiopia	18	6.2%
148	Kano	Nigeria	14	5.4%
149	Dar es Salaam	Tanzania	13	6.0%
150	Krakow	Poland	13	1.9%
151	Pyongyang	North Korea	13	1.5%

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