In the league table of the world's biggest economies, four of the fastest climbers in the past 20 years have been in East Asia. Israel has also leapt up the rankings, matching South Korea and Hong Kong by rising a dozen places. China has risen only four notches—but even in the early 1980s it was already the world's tenth-biggest economy in current dollars. India, perhaps surprisingly, has barely budged. Several oil producers have fallen down the rankings, despite the increase in oil prices towards the end of the period covered.