Factbox: BRICS emerging powers grow in global strength

The BRICS countries make up 21 per cent of global GDP. They have increased their share of global GDP threefold in the past 15 years. The BRICS are home to 43 per cent of the world's population. The BRICS countries have combined foreign reserves of an estimated $4.4 trillion. Intra-BRICS trade flows reached $282 billion in 2012 and are estimated to reach $500 billion by 2015. In 2002, it was $27.3 billion. IMF est...