Long perceived as followers, the Brics are taking the lead in global growth today. According to the latest IMF forecasts, these emerging powers recorded in 2025 an economic dynamic significantly higher than that of the United States. This quantitative tilting becomes strategic: the rise of the BRICS is no longer a trend, it is a fact. Their collective performance redefines strength reports and requires a rereading of geoeconomic balances.
In short
- The BRICS recorded in 2025 economic growth of 3.4 %, much greater than that of the United States, projected at only 1.4 % according to the IMF.
- Countries like India, Ethiopia and China draw this dynamic, strengthening the overall weight of the block on the world economy.
- The IMF confirms that the BRICS now represent 40 % of world GDP, and up to 41 % in purchasing power parity (PPP).
- The United States, in full economic stagnation, are struggling to follow this dynamic and could lose their central role in the world economy.
BRICS growth: a dynamic that goes beyond expectations
According to the report “Perspectives of the global economy” IMF, published in April 2025, the BRICS block countries recorded combined growth of their GDP of 3.4 %, well above the initial forecasts.
In comparison, the United States is projected at only 1.4 %, which reflects a performance gap that continues to widen. Rodrigo Cezar, professor at the Getulio Vargas (FGV) Foundation in Brazil, says:
The BRICS cannot be ignored, given the size of their population and their GDP in 2025.
This comment reflects a paradigm shift. Emerging savings, long perceived as followers, are now established as global growth engines.
Indeed, the IMF report Details the growth projections of several members and partners of the BRICS Alliance for the year 2025. These figures show a marked economic vitality, but also a structured geoeconomic rise:
- Ethiopia: +6.6 %;
- India: +6.2 %;
- Indonesia: +4.7 %;
- United Arab Emirates: +4 %;
- China: +4 %;
- South Africa: +3.4 %;
- Brazil: +2.3 %.
In addition, the IMF indicates that the BRICS now represent 40 % of world GDP, a figure that rises to 41 % in purchasing power parity (PPP). This distribution testifies to a switch from the world economic epicenter to the global south.
Far from being a simple statistical signal, this growing economic weight is starting to have concrete repercussions on international financial balances.
Increased strategic influence on global markets
Beyond the only growth figures, it is a redefinition of power relations in the world exchanges that took place in 2025. Rodrigo Cezar underlines that certain countries of the BRICS, like Russia and Brazil, play a crucial role in strategic supply chains.
“”They are key suppliers of energy, food and strategic mineralsHe explains. Such a position gives them a major lever for the world prices of raw materials, making the markets increasingly sensitive to the internal dynamics of the BRICS Bloc.
Geopolitical tensions and American tariff policies have only accentuated this rocking. Faced with limited growth and growing price isolation, the American economy “is on the razor thread».
The contrast is all the more marked since the BRICS continue in parallel their strategy of dedollarization, which aims to reduce their dependence on the greenback and to assert their financial autonomy. Although this dimension was not detailed in the IMF report, it constitutes an increasingly audible sound background.
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