China’s Currency Should Strengthen About 20% by 2030-2040

Richer countries tend to converge their market exchange rate with their purchasing power parity exchange rate. As China has moved up from $1000-2000 per capita income to $12000 per capita income on an exchange rate basis the price level ratio is the ratio of a purchasing power parity (PPP) conversion factor to an exchange rate has moved from 0.33 to around 0.55-0.60.


source: tradingeconomics.com

China is expected to move up to around $17000 per capita GDP by 2026 and $21000 per capita GDP by 2030.
Statistic: Gross domestic product (GDP) per capita in current prices in China from 1985 to 2019 with forecasts until 2026 (in U.S. dollars) | Statista
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Some of this per exchange per capita move will be in the GDP growth figures and some will come from China getting up to the level of Costa Rica, Greece and Portugal in terms of price convergence from being a wealthier country.

The other factor is that China’s domestic consumer spending should go from about half of the level of US consumer spending to exceed EU consumer spending and to match or even exceed US consumer spending. Reducing the need for a weaker currency to boost exports will encourage China to allow its currency to strengthen. Countries with about half of the US per capita income tend to have price level ratios of about 0.70-0.72.

SOURCES- PIIE, Statistica, Index Mundi
Written By Brian Wang, Nextbigfuture.com

7 thoughts on “China’s Currency Should Strengthen About 20% by 2030-2040”

  1. Looking at a map, I'm speculating

    • North Korea
    • Myanmar
    • Laos
    • Maybe Cambodia
    • Maybe Mongolia

    There are other nearby countries, but I suspect they would be less racially compatible (a bigger issue in China than the much more tolerant western countries) and/or not obviously a source of low wage labour when compared to China. ie. You aren't going to get Japanese moving to China for a factory labourer job.

    In related news, the same countries could be a source of young ladies looking to marry a (relatively) well paid man.

  2. Chinese businesses will have cheap illegal alien Korean workers keeping stuff going. Hell, it worked for the US, for a while.

  3. Relative to what? China's currencies are just fiat. I bet they won't gain strength against precious metals over the long term.

  4. Going to be interesting. I'm still trying to get a handle on the implications of over 25% of the population being over 64 by 2040. With so many Chinese not involved in any sort of pension plan, and the country's unfunded pension obligations being nearly 100% of GDP . . . well, it will be interesting.

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