TOKYO — China will be the biggest economic beneficiary of robots equipped with artificial intelligence, narrowing the gap in real gross domestic product with the U.S. over the next three decades. But China may never grow larger than the U.S., economically, as it is likely to be bogged down by future population declines, according to a forecast by a Japanese think tank.
In a long-term economic forecast released on Thursday, the Japan Center for Economic Research predicts that by the end of the 2050s, China’s real GDP will be 3.5 times the size it was in 2024. The gap between the world’s largest and the second-largest economy is forecast to be the smallest in 2057, with China’s economy size reaching 89% of the size of the U.S.
