The US is poised to lose its 110-year run as the world’s biggest manufacturing nation by output in 2011 to China – though it still claimed the top spot last year – according to IHS Global Insight figures released on Monday, Financial Times reported. The US created 19.9% of world manufacturing output last year, compared with 18.6% in China, despite the global downturn. According to IHS, a US-based economics consultancy, goods output by the US totaled US$1,717 billion, ahead of China at US$1,608 billion. However China’s factory output in 2011 will reach US$1,870 billion, according to IHS estimates, putting it a fraction ahead of the projected US output. American resilience last year comes as a surprise, as the IHS predicted it would lose its number one position in 2009.