World's Most Powerful Countries: Where Do India Stands?

6. Japan:

“The Land of the Rising Sun”, Japan, with a fast growing economy emerges as one of the most powerful nations. It has a major economic power and is actually one of the world’s largest exporter and importer.

It is one such nation that spends whooping sum in defense. In this country, maintaining a military establishment is mainly to achieve national security.

The country’s defense budget has risen from 0.8 percent to 4.68 trillion yen ($51.7 billion). Although its economy was almost destroyed after the Cold War and World War II, Japan still emerges as the world’s third largest economy after USA and China.

The Japanese industrial sector is the main reasons behind this growth of this country. It is the home to some of the most advanced automobile companies in the world.

5. United Kingdom:

The Land of kings and queens, the United Kingdom rounds off at the fifth spot on the list. This nation has the world's sixth largest economy by nominal GDP and eighth largest by purchasing power parity.

It was the world's first industrialized country and the world's foremost power during the 19th and early 20th centuries. The UK remains a great power with significant economic, cultural, military, scientific and political influence all over the globe.

 It is a recognized nuclear weapons state and its military expenditure ranks from fourth to sixth (depending on the source) in the world

The UK is believed to be a hardworking country that has 70 percent of employees having a paid job. They work for 1,625 hours yearly.

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