Also shown are the original tigers (South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore and Hong Kong) (in red).
The Tiger Cub Economies collectively refer to the economies of the developing countries of Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam,[1] the five dominant countries in Southeast Asia.[2][3]
Overview
The Tiger Cub Economies are so named because they attempt to follow the same export-driven model of technology and economic development already achieved by the rich, high-tech, industrialized, and developed countries of South Korea, Singapore, and Taiwan, along with the wealthy financial center of Hong Kong, which are all collectively referred to as the Four Asian Tigers.[4][5][6][7] Young tigers are referred to as "cubs", the implication being that the five newly industrialized countries[8] who make up the Tiger Cub Economies are rising Tigers. Malaysia's development as a Tiger Cub economy involved diversification away from traditional commodity exports such as palm oil and rubber toward electronics and other higher-value industries. Government policies also encouraged small and medium-sized enterprises and domestic entrepreneurship, while initiatives such as the Multimedia Super Corridor were intended to support the development of a knowledge-based economy.[9] In fact, four countries are included in HSBC's list of top 50 economies in 2050,[10] while Indonesia, Vietnam and the Philippines are included in Goldman Sachs's Next Eleven list of high potential economies because of their rapid growth[quantify] and large population.
Overseas Chinese entrepreneurs played a major prominent role in the development of the region's private sectors. These businesses are part of the larger bamboo network, a network of overseas Chinese businesses operating in the markets of developing countries like Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, and the Philippines that share common family and cultural ties.[11] China's transformation into a major economic power in the 21st century has led to increasing investments in Southeast Asian countries where the bamboo network is present.[12]
2026 data
GDP and GDP per capita data are according to the International Monetary Fund's April 2026 data.[13]
| Rank | Country | Population in million |
GDP (Nominal) | GDP Nominal per capita |
GDP (Purchasing power parity) | GDP (Purchasing power parity) per capita |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Indonesia |
 287.88 | $1,539.87 | $5,362 | $5,449.145 | $18,973 |
| 2 |  Thailand |
 71.56 | $579.99 | $8,105 | $1,963.655 | $27,441 |
| 3 |  Vietnam |
102.18 | $527.27 | $5,115 | $2,025.331 | $19,649 |
| 4 |  Malaysia |
36.38 | $516.43 | $15,085 | $1,608.504 | $46,986 |
| 5 |  Philippines |
117.72 | $512.22 | $4,443 | $1,572.561 | $13,639 |
| - |  ASEAN |
704.75 | $4,509.56 | $6,398 | $14,275.72 | $20,256 |
Economies of Southeast Asia
Developing economies of the Tiger Cubs
Developed economies of the Four Asian Tigers
See also
References
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- ↑ HOMLONG, Nathalie; SPRINGLER, Elisabeth. Business-Handbuch Vietnam: Das Vietnamgeschäft erfolgreich managen: Kulturverständnis, Mitarbeiterführung, Recht und Finanzierung. Wiesbaden: Springer Gabler, 2013.
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- ↑ Kanagasingam, Rajkumar (17 November 2005). "How can Sri Lanka be transformed into Malaysia and Singapore?". Daily Mirror. Wijeya Newspapers Ltd. Archived from the original on 10 September 2014.
- ↑ Kevin Voigt (12 January 2012). "World's top economies in 2050 will be..." CNN. Archived from the original on 2012-01-16. Retrieved 20 February 2013.
- ↑ Murray L Weidenbaum (1 January 1996). The Bamboo Network: How Expatriate Chinese Entrepreneurs are Creating a New Economic Superpower in Asia. Martin Kessler Books, Free Press. pp. 4–8. ISBN 978-0-684-82289-1.
- ↑ Quinlan, Joe (November 13, 2007). "Insight: China's capital targets Asia's bamboo network". Financial Times.
- ↑ "https://www.imf.org/external/datamapper/datasets/WEO". www.imf.org. Retrieved 2024-02-25.
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