Nigeria could join a handful of
countries including China that
would be pivotal in shaping
the world’s economy by the
year 2030 according to a report
by the super secret United
States National Intelligence
Council, NIC.

The NIC report just released,
projects an idea of what the
world would look like in the
future.

The report which is an
articulation of expertise
opinion from the US
intelligence community
released last December,
however, admits that it may
not be exact.
It is a fact many Nigerian
experts would appreciate given
earlier expertise opinion from
the United States army that
Nigeria may implode by the
year 2015.

The report could come handy
to Nigerian administration
officials working towards the
goal of putting Nigeria among
the top 20 economies by the
year 2020.

In the
report on
Global
Trends
2030, the
report
notes that
the United
States and
Europe
would be
overwhelmed by the economic
powers of Asian countries as
China and other Asian
countries and Brazil take a
leading role in dictating the
pace of the world economy.
China according to the report
would just overtake the US
before 2030 as the world’s
biggest economy.

Other powers including Nigeria
according to the report, would
also jump to the top in global
economic ranking.
“In addition to China, India,
and Brazil, regional players
such as Colombia , Indonesia ,
Nigeria , South Africa and
Turkey will become especially
important to the global
economy,” the report says.
“The diffusion of power
among countries will have a
dramatic impact by 2030. Asia
will have surpassed North
America and Europe combined
in terms of global power,
based upon GDP, population
size, military spending, and
technological investment.

China alone will probably have
the largest economy,
surpassing that of the United
States a few years before 2030.
“Meanwhile, the economies of
Europe, Japan, and Russia are
likely to continue their slow
relative declines.”

Since its establishment in 1979,
the NIC has served as a bridge
between the intelligence and
policy communities, a source
of deep substantive expertise
on intelligence issues.

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