is roughly $3 trillion larger than the G7, which includes Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the US and the United Kingdom.
However, coordinating common action on specific points of contention may not be as easy for the expanded BRICS grouping as for the G7.values An analysis of various governance variables across member countries, including perceptions of political stability, rule of law, government effectiveness and basic freedoms, reveals a high level of variance. Scores for each of these variables show a standard deviation from the mean that is often more than double that of G7 countries.