The Next Factory of the World

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Introduction

1. 2014 share of global manufacturing output figure from Mark Levinson, “U.S. Manufacturing in International Perspective,” Congressional Research Service, April 26, 2016, https://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R42135.pdf. China’s GDP was $358,973.23 in 1990 and grew to $10,866,444.00 in 2015 (World Bank, “GDP [current US$],” http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.MKTP.CD?end=2015&name_desc=false&start=1990).

2. Per capita GDP figures from the World Bank, “GDP per capita (current US$),” http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.CD?end=2015&name_desc=false&start=1990. In 1990, China’s per capita GDP was $316.20, Kenya’s $365.60, Lesotho’s $340.90, Nigeria’s $321.70, and the United States’ $23,954.50. Today, although the US ...