!!! Overview
[{$pagename}] ([G7]) is an international intergovernmental economic organization consisting of the seven largest [IMF]-described advanced economies in the world: [Canada], [France], [Germany], [Italy], [Japan], the [United Kingdom], and the [United States]


[{$pagename}] between [1998|Year 1998] and [2014|Year 2014], the group included [Russia] and was known as the [Group of Eight], and had for a year been known as the Group of Six before the [1976|Year 1976] inclusion of Canada.

As of 2018, the seven countries involved represent 58% of the global net [wealth] ($317 [trillion])[2] and more than 46% of the global gross domestic product ([GDP]) based on nominal values, and more than 32% of the global [GDP] based on purchasing power parity. The [European Union] has also been an invitee to [G7] summits, and other expanded summits with other nations have met under the banner of the Group of Eight + Five.

[{$pagename}] announced at their Pittsburgh summit in September [2009|Year 2009] that the [Group of 20] ([G20]) would replace the [G7] as the main [United Nations] Economic Council of Nations [United Nations Economic and Social Council].

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