Beijing - China has taken Germany's spot as the world's third-largest economy after the United States and Japan, statistics released on Wednesday showed.

Beijing's national statistics office released corrected figures for the year 2007, revising the gross domestic product (GDP) growth upwards from 11.9 per cent to 13 per cent, the largest increase since 1993.

Total GDP figures were revised upwards by 777.6 billion yuan (113.8 billion dollars), or 3.1 per cent, to 25.73 trillion yuan, thereby overtaking Germany's output, experts said. (dpa)