BRICS (including 2024/2025 expansion): ~3.3–4.3+ billion (approx. 40%–56% of global population)
NATO (32 nations): ~952.7 million – 1 billion (approx. 12% of global population).

Dominance of the G7: In the late 1990s and early 2000s, the G7 held sway over global economic governance. In 1995, the G7 accounted for approximately 46% of global GDP (based on Purchasing Power Parity), while the future BRICS countries represented only about 18.5%.

This is a good time to figure out what is going on with the numbers, find out what they did to sway the numbers and what we need to do to get the numbers back on our side. Going to go even further back and look at how we got to the point where we grew to be 46%.

The G7 (United States, Japan, Germany, United Kingdom, France, Italy, and Canada) achieved dominance of the global economy through a combination of rapid industrialization in the 19th and 20th centuries, postwar reconstruction, and the establishment of a rules-based international order. At their peak, these nations generated approximately two-thirds of the world's manufacturing output and GDP, despite representing only 13% of the global population, a period often referred to as "The Great Divergence".