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These Are the Countries That Have Grown the Most in the Last Year

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Nicolas Rapp
Nicolas Rapp
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Anne VanderMey
Anne VanderMey
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By
Nicolas Rapp
Nicolas Rapp
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Anne VanderMey
Anne VanderMey
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February 23, 2018, 8:00 AM ET

President Trump didn’t quite get the 3% GDP boost he was hoping for in 2017, but at 2.3%, the U.S. economy is chugging along. Meanwhile, India and China soared more than 6%, and overall global growth saw a 2.9% increase. Don’t bank on the good times lasting too long, though. Economists see risks in political unrest, trade wars, and overheated markets, and anticipate a slowdown by 2020.

Nicolas Rapp
Nicolas Rapp

A version of this article appears in the March 2018 issue of Fortune.

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Nicolas Rapp is the former information graphics director at Fortune.

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