American wasn't always the world super power?!!?

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[@0Defensor0]

"Great Ming" and "Great Qing" were named after the ruling dynasties of China at that time. Also, yes. The USA got it's economic advantage from it's infrastructure not being leveled by either of the world wars, while also heavily profiting from both of them.

[@Songfugel]

Also the allied forced had to give the US almost all the inventions that boosted into a super power status as part of the deal for US to join them. Which typically, US has been on a victory your ever since as the inventor, even though they invented none of that s**t :/

[@szaszm_]

The USA also benefits a lot from foreign investment, being a stable and business-friendly economy with relatively high returns historically. A lot of foreign capital funds US ventures. And the US is comparable in size to the whole EU, but managed and counted as a single country, rather than individual member countries. (And also growing faster.) It also has a lot of soft power, and owning the world reserve currency helps a lot, too.

[@tovarishcheleonora8542]

Don't forget that the americans have maybe the highest national debt as well. Which is always growing.

[@stannumowl]

​​@@szaszm_ indeed. But In fairness, it is worth remembering that after World War II, the US remained the only developed country with an intact industry and had a sales market of the whole world. All that you mentioned is correct but both of world wars gives a huge relative boost to US in many spheres

[@szaszm_]

@@stannumowl That's certainly a big factor, but it's already stated in the thread starting comment, so I didn't bother repeating it.

[@lionvader]

Well, of course the only great power that didn't have to fight WWII in its own borders (no, a bombing on a pacific port is not the same as actually fighting on own soil for several years) is going to come out victorious financially afterwards. Try to factor that into your judgement ;)

[@Northerner-NotADoctor]

UK and Japan didn't fight the WWII within her borders as well.

[@Idk-ys7rt]

​​@@Northerner-NotADoctorThe UK did. Battle of Britain and Blitz and it had a realistic possibility of being attacked/invaded.

[@Idk-ys7rt]

​​@@Northerner-NotADoctorAlso, the UK were in the war since 1939 compared to the US which only entered the war in late 1941 and Germany declared war on the US first, not the other way around.

[@anacristinaribeiro9592]

Japan had to fight WWII in its borders. Why woud they attack Pearl Harbour?

[@Northerner-NotADoctor]

@@anacristinaribeiro9592 Name me a core Japan island on which there was a fight. I know of none. I only know about fight around (on and in the water) and above (in the air) of Japan.

[@CatalystGP]

"Qing" is pronounced Ching, it's also known as the Qing Dynasty!

[@Notmyname1593]

AKA China

[@dorisschneider-coutandin9965]

@@Notmyname1593 Imperial China then. Named after the ruling dynasties for a long, long time.

[@madrooky1398]

The US really was the only "winner" of ww2 economy wise, because it had the juicy war economy boom without the destruction the war caused in Europe. Makes me mad when some ignorant American tells me as an European "we saved Europe". 80 million people died in ww2, yeah the US contributed a lot with 400k casualties... I mean yeah that's a lot still, but the cockiness of such a statement when thinking about the scale of the war is just insane. The battle of Stalingrad alone took 3 times more lives for the Soviets and Germans.

[@stevenvanhulle7242]

The USSR lost 27 million people in WW II, 2/3 of whom were civilians.

[@tovarishcheleonora8542]

The americans basicly jumpend in the war in the last minute. They didn't saved sh*t, they literally had to ally with UK and CCCP to do anything. They didn't even win their own civil war on their own, they literally did need Spain and France as ally to win that too. There was no war that they ever won without 2 or mor other country's help.

[@DarkMatter1992]

Who hasn't heard of the British East India Company? They were in operation around the same time as the Dutch East India Company...and pirates.

[@maximipe]

Not sure why is there since it isn't a country, who wanna bet the guy who did this is british?

[@rezin6957]

​@@maximipeespecially because the Dutch East India Company (VOC) isn't mentioned 😅

[@lulaa123]

Also has he not watched pirates of the Caribbean?

[@strasbourgerelsass1467]

​@@maximipeThe British East India was literally a powerful country. We call it India, Sri Lanka, etc. today.

[@peterjackson4763]

@@maximipe Probably not British, as a Briton would likely have counted the British East India Company as part of Britain.

[@FaithlessDeviant]

The chart isn't GDP per Capita, it is total GDP of the nations. It would be fun to see the chart as GDP per Capita though.

[@E85stattElektro]

Monaco number 1 for sure

[@maximipe]

GDP per capita is a shitty measure too, what you need is PPP based on median income or better yet PPP by income decils or quintiles

[@tubekulose]

@@E85stattElektro Or Liechtenstein.

[@MarioPetrinovich]

@@maximipe I don't agree at all. In my country (Croatia) kindergarten costs 6 times less than in Sweden. In my country one lady takes care of 6 times more children than in Sweden. No Swede would ever leave his child in a kindergarten where a lady takes care of 6 times more children. You could open such a kindergarten in Sweden but nobody would leave their children there, it is like leaving your children to Gypsies. The purpose of kindergarten in my country is just so that you have a place to put your child somewhere while you are working for the benefit of the Party, knowing that you will find them alive after the work. In my country people drive Yugo, in Sweden they drive Volvo. Both have engines, four wheels and four seats. Per PPP we are all the same, but if crisis comes, Swedes will move to drive Yugo, while we will move to ride donkeys. Eventually PPP has sense if a country has some notable resource, like oil, or something. But otherwise, no sense.

[@beldin2987]

Would be interesting to see GDP per capita for the US with and without maybe the 5-10 richest guys of the country.

[@AndyViant]

US failing to wear the consequences of World Wars is how the US rockets away. Not because America was "tougher" than other nations. It just didn't join WWI until the war was nearly over Likewise late to arrive to WWII and made no real economic sacrifices, indeed bleeding it's allies who sacrificed their productivity and their lives for the freedom we have today.

[@Steve-ys1ig]

During World War II all of the European nations and many other parts of the world suffered a loss of infrastructure, industry and manpower because of fighting on their own soil. The US was able to dominate after World War II because it made money and profited from the War and because it did not suffer a loss to its internal infrastructure it was able to race ahead. Europe, Russia, China, Japan etc had to rebuild.

[@JeroenJA]

Belguim here, in western flanders farmers STILL find hunderts of unexploded munitions from.. mainly WW1 , not 2!! i think the demining service handles about a 1000 demining a year.. of witch 995 are unexploted bombs from the WW's , and 900 only WW1 ...

[@CitronCassis]

@@JeroenJAexact. Same for France who lost the heart of its industries in the North East during WW1. It dragged down the country which never recovered from it.

[@Lars_erik]

The military industry still is the backbone of the US economy. So they obviously benefit from war.

[@anouk6644]

For such a small country the Netherlands popping up time and time again gives me great joy. Like we’re trying really hard to keep up with the big guys.

[@DenUitvreter]

1.5 million inhabitants and only just below France with it's 28 million people back then. That's how Dutch butchers and carpenters collected paintings.

[@timglennon6814]

The Dutch were responsible for starting up the Stock Market.

[@DenUitvreter]

@@timglennon6814 They came up with modern capitalism. The stock market was only part of that and came about because there was a middle and even working class that had savings, spend big and owned shares.

[@user-km1dr6fj3l]

im portuguese, so insted of joy all i get is depression :D

[@boterham5]

fr that made me so proud lmao

[@abcboeg]

Ming and Qing are different empires of China. Then the Republic of China came (The guys who today run Taiwan) and after them the people's republic of China (that rules mainland China today).

[@twofinedays]

One, this is total GDP, and bigger countries with bigger population would tend to have an upper hand. Two, China and India have been the richest countries in the most part of history. See how India as a British colony alone exceeded the GDP of GB itself. No wonder Brits called it 'the jewel of the crown' and hung onto India till they absolutely couldn't any more. Three, I'm surprised Ryan doesn't remember the heyday of Japan. In his childhood, all the Japanese consumer brands (Sony, Panasonic, Toyota etc) must have been still just about hanging on being the top dogs. Unfortunately the sheer number of Japan's GDP was largely on a bubble (at the height of the bubble, they said, for the price of Tokyo real estate, they could buy the entire territory of USA), and they've seen the slow decline ever since.

[@exaqtian]

They held onto india as long as it took for them to work out their own constitution like South africa/Aus etc did. People look at the wealth of the EIC and assume it would have been like that if britain wasn't there which simply is not the case. India did not have the modern technology that dictated what modern wealth and GDP would even be based on. Once things like the sewing machines are mass used the previous "wealth" of india would not have survived past the 1800s. It was due to the modern tech and industry that EIC was bringing via western nations.

[@twofinedays]

@@exaqtian the economic model of British empire was largely to produce raw material in the colonies using cheap labour, import them into the main(is)land, turn them into consumer products, and sell them back to the colonies for profit. Yes, colonisers built roads, rails, ports and to a degree modernised the production of raw materials - but they didn't actually build modern industry or any infrastructure that wasn't directly benefiting their goal. Overall I'm staunchly against the narrative of "colonisers = modernisers" or the colonised nations had no chance to develop themselves in their own means and in their own accord unless they were colonised. And by the way, Aus/US and to a large extent S Africa is not comparable to India and many other colonies. In North America and Australia, the indigenous population and culture was totally wiped out, and the quasi European societal model was transplanted. Canada, US, Aus, NZ are basically Western countries. It was not possible in India. It was a land of high population, highly developed culture, history and too strong an identity to wipe out as in the aforementioned examples. For the entire duration of colonial period, Brits still had to work with the existing local powers, and hence India still came out as a non western nation with its own identity even after the long colonial rule.

[@peterjackson4763]

@@twofinedaysNo. That was only a part of the economic model. Another part was the extraction of raw materials within the UK, manufacturing with them, and exporting the products. The UK had a lot of coal and Iron ore. It was the biggest export of iron for most of the 19th century. It also had plenty of copper and tin in the 19th century. Then there was the cotton industry which got most of its raw materials from the USA, after it was no longer a bunch of colonies. 85% of cotton processed in Britain around the middle of the 19th century came from the USA. The real economic model of the UK was that there wasn't one. People were free to try lots of things. Some worked. It was never Britain's intention to wipe out the locals, but the actual colonists often had different ideas. That was one of the disagreements that lead to the American revolution.

[@twofinedays]

@@peterjackson4763 what you said may be true, but that has nothing much to do with the main point of my post, which is that the coloniser (and here it includes every coloniser not just UK) might have built some infrastructures and modernization of certain section in their colony, but it was all in the aim of extraction of resources and ultimately their own profit. Coal was of course the main driving force of the industrial revolution, but that is not the main point. I specifically called it the economic model of British 'empire' - or should I have called it the economic relationship of Britain to her colonies. British colonies had to buy consumer goods and machineries exclusively from UK. India, even though they produced the raw materials for cotton, had to buy finished cotton fabric from UK. That's why the picture of Gandhi spinning the cotton wheel became so iconic, because that was the protest against the unfair trade relationship between India and UK.

[@peterjackson4763]

@@twofinedays Of course every "colonizer" was doing it for their own personal profit. Though India was never colonized, nor was there ever any intention to. The East India Company started off as a trade organisation. It was very profitable as cotton goods sold very well in Europe. Due to officials disobeying orders and the effects of war it ended up controlling much of India but that was never its intention. People in England seeing how well cotton both tried to stop it and to produce it themselves (different people of course). Eventually an effective power loom was developed. That ruined the hand loom weavers in Britain and wrecked the East India Company's cotton business. It didn't use India cotton as it's short fibres made it unsuitable for power looms. Using machines and American cotton Britain could produce and ship cotton goods more cheaply than they could be produced in India. India wasn't producing the raw material. The picture was a good PR coup for Gandhi but wasn't based on the truth. During the American civil war when American cotton was not available some British factories tried Indian cotton as an alternative but could only operate at 40% of their normal speed.

[@willemmeulemans277]

Ryan's knowledge of 20th-century history really shows the major gap of general knowledge there is in the us (also reffered to as "education" in the US itself).

[@ivanf4136]

Where is East Germany? I was like 😳😳😳

[@elenfoiros1359]

well , in europe we have a profond understanding of this because we suffer a lot from thoses wars and it's a big part of history classes in school

[@stevenvanhulle7242]

8:28 "India is above the UK" India population: 1.4 billion UK population: 67 million

[@Thurgosh_OG]

And India, despite having a space program is still counted as a 'Developing Nation', in the same way as China. Why are these economic, space capable countries still given these preferential treatments?

[@nicoladc89]

@@Thurgosh_OG That's a good question. For example, the devoloped countries pay every year for carbon offsets, in the COP28 (which is currently being held in Dubai) those countries, specially the EU countries,would like this to also extend to China, India, Saudi Arabia and other countries which are considered developing countries and therefore exempt from payment, but which in reality are fully developed countries with large emissions (India, China and US are responsible for half of the global CO2 emissions). Saudi emissions per capita are around double than Germans and higher than Americans and the total emissions of Saudi Arabia are higher than Canada, Italy, France, UK, Spain etc... who must pay for carbon offsets. (Carbon emission per capita: USA 14.2t, Germany 8.06, Italy/San Marino/Vatican City 5.41, France and Monaco 4.58, UK 4.95, Saudi Arabia 16.63, UAE 19.47, Russia 13.52, China 8.73, Australia 14.31, Canada 14.86). This because that politics were adopted decades ago, and unanimity is needed to change it. And they don't want to change it.

[@JeroenJA]

so, really ONLY in the past 10 years? WTF? I thought all those Indian ICT'er and phone help desk operators.. counted for quite a bit.. but me instinct of India being at least at about 1% of the GBP of UK is double what it actually was.. not 100 times less GDP per capita but .. 200 times less O.O WTF .. but if i'm corretly, India should have clearly relatively grown on that chart in the past 5 years??

[@TheAryanKnight]

European standard focus on GDP per capita and lifestyle to declare a country developer rather than overall power of a country @@Thurgosh_OG

[@shubhamtubu8027]

India's gdp growth rate: 7.2% UK's gdp growth rate: 1%

[@SovermanandVioboy]

Ok, I get it, when westerners dont know anything about asia... but you never heard about the East India Trading Company? lol *insert american school system meme here

[@CrownRider]

Try adding up the GDP of EU countries such as France Germany, Italy, Spain and the Netherlands. That is a real powerhouse.

[@JonasReichert1992]

The USA doesn’t even exist for more than 247 Years - as a country.😂

[@tilenoblak7304]

And it wont last 247 more years

[@williamwilkes9873]

Heard of China?

[@baskoning9896]

This. Its sooo arrogant: 'wut, USA has not ALWAYS been the superpower?!?!' nooo. duh.. We have buildings in our city that are twice as old as the entire USA. The usa had to wipe out an entire continent of people: then import slaves to work there, just to BEGIN. Then to have the arrogance: 'oh, we are the superpower of the world, surely, that was always the case' makes my skin boil. That, and imperial numbers. 'why would we use science, why would we use metric, pound per square inch!'

[@williamwilkes9873]

@@tilenoblak7304 love it !

[@psychonaughtthoughts1494]

And they’ve been ‘at war’ for more than 200 of those years 😜 despite never actually winning a war

[@daveofyorkshire301]

The USA has only been around for a blink of an eye, it's literally an adolescent in the world's nations. There have been superpowers going all the way back to African empires like Egypt, the Mali empire, the Ghana empire. The Barbary pirates and Muslim caliphates that took over the entire Iberian peninsula. The USA is a rambunctious child amongst ancient empires long since gone.

[@danmayberry1185]

American exceptionalism is cute. To Afghanistan's historic (and present) rulers, 20 years of US presence was like a coffee break.

[@Narangarath]

@@danmayberry1185 Seriously. I can trace my family history back to the 13th century and I COME FROM FARMERS. The family farm has literally been there since at least 1283 (the first consensus of the area). "Oh, your family went over to the Americas in the 1600's? That's adorable." 😂

[@101steel4]

The US is already on a massive downward spiral. In the 5 minutes they had power, they did fuck all 😂

[@daveofyorkshire301]

Strange my post keeps getting deleted?

[@daveofyorkshire301]

They really got promoted to No1 when they masterfully created an economic coup of vast proportions. By allying with Saudi Arabia they turned the OPEC nations into subordinates using the US dollar as the sole means of transacting oil. It was a truly masterful move in the 1970's that propelled the US economy to where it is. It keeps deleting the second bit of this...

[@ZoeBrain]

Australia with a pop of 26m is surprisingly high on the list for the 20th and 21st centuries

[@evdweide]

And so is the Netherlands, for a tiny country with 17m pop.

[@antoniajuel9582]

I'm suprised Sweden held on for so long. We used to be big, rich and militarily mighty back in the 1700s, but we were up on this chart at recently as 1987.

[@marcelmarceli8238]

This is basic historical knowledge.

[@GeinoLinking-zc6ed]

This is clearly satire 😂

[@-hamma875]

It‘s not. Except u don‘t have a life and learn all the empires at home before u go to sleep

[@marcelmarceli8238]

@@-hamma875 I learned about empires such as the Persians, the Mongols, Alexander the Great and others in primary school when I was about 10-12 years old. Of course, without exact details, just basic information.

[@-hamma875]

@@marcelmarceli8238 and of course u still know what u learned in school when u were 10 years old and probably all ur classmates names back then. Sure sure

[@marcelmarceli8238]

@@-hamma875 Maybe because it was interesting to me.

[@warrenturner397]

Shows very clearly which country profited by and made squillions out of World War 1 (19 FOURTEEN - 1918) and World War 2 )19 THIRTY-NINE - 1945)

[@mehallica666]

Double your money when you sell weapons and supplies to both sides at the same time!

[@johnveerkamp1501]

How do they forget the biggest Dutch campanie IN THE WORLD HISTORY EVER. THEY HAD MORE MONEY ,THEN ALL AMERICAN COMPANIES TOGETHER. That was the V.O.C. THE GOLDEN AGE. !!

[@DenUitvreter]

Nonsense. The Dutch herring fishery had a higher turnover than peak VOC. The Dutch Golden Age was already over halfway through when the VOC started paying dividend.

[@lisahood1389]

Considering Canadas population is only about 40Mill NOW, we were middle of that chart for quite some time. Pretty good! Go us!

[@jarkkolahtinen7441]

You can kind of look at East India Company as British rule over India to simplify. 1947 India gained it's independence, you might remember a fellow named Gandhi.

[@berlindude75]

Plus Bangladesh and Pakistan (both part of the former Raj) on either side of India who went their own way due to religion.

[@nolajoy7759]

USA was not badly affected by World War as only stepped in at last minute and made $ from selling weapons.

[@bearofthunder]

If you want to see nordic countries in the chart you have to do GDP per Capita on the same channel, and after you can ask yourself, "what is happening in Luxemburg"???

[@speleokeir]

There are a few quirks with the way this is done which make it misleading: - Why are some Empires included with the founding nation and others separated? - They're separated the UK and British East India Company, but not the Netherlands and Dutch East India company. - They've separated the UK and 'British Raj' by which I assume British India. What about the rest of the British Empire? If you lump all the British Empire and UK in together it's going to be far more. - Does France & Spain include their empires? - Note the UK and then US rapidly increasing after the industrial revolution. The US was very good at making the most of new ideas coming out of Britain and France which their Governments were sometimes slow to adopt. - WWI & WWII hit European countries very hard. The US profited massively from this. Britain took enormous loans from the US during WWII and was still repaying these until fairly recently. This and the loss of the Empire hit the UK massively. This left Britain in the pocket of the US which they exploited. The US used this debt (and the threat from the USSR) to pressure Britain to go along with US policy, share technological discoveries, pressure the UK Government to drop investment, , etc in areas which commercially rivaled US companies. e.g. jet aircraft or take up contracts with US companies rather than British ones. - Germany & Japan weren't allowed to spend on military after WWI. This benefitted their economies as it freed up money to invest in stuff like technology and infrastructure, whilst other countries were spending hugely on defense during the cold war.

[@Northerner-NotADoctor]

1. I'm suprized that Poland (earlier shown as the Commonwealth of Both Nations) even while not independent was still the industrial/agricultural power of world. 2. The Republic of China has the same flag even nowadays, just check (don't confuse them with the People's Republic of China). 3. The peak of USA's power and wealth was 1986, and since then up to 2016 it went only down in purchase power of workers.

[@michalandrejmolnar3715]

Really makes you think how Reaganism and with that globalization fucked up the American worker.

[@Darwidx]

Poland was richest part of Russian Empire, Warsaw even was at some point biggest city before industralization of Russian mainland. Poland would still be pretty strong if not occupation, industralization was partially stoped in Poland by bordering countries, so Poles would be weaker, that make Poland less importand in XIX/XX century.

[@Northerner-NotADoctor]

@@Darwidx GG, WP.

[@tommysellering4224]

@@Darwidx As far as I know, Poland is the only country in europe that was totally eradicated as an independent state, not only once, but twice in history and it STILL came back stronger than ever!

[@wykydytron]

Poland obviously was leveled by WW2 but before it was local superpower and main reason why Hitler started WW2 from Poland as he wanted to destroy most powerful local player by surprise. Unfortunately after WW2 Poland was sold by USA to Russia forever destroying it chances in rebuilding former power. It's only first world country out of all post soviet countries destroyed by commies but it's far cry from what it could and should be weak Poland is one of reasons why putin attacked Ukraine, he knows central Europe is weak and divided so support for Ukraine will be limited.

[@vogel2280]

Interestingly the British East Indian Trading company was in there , but not the Dutch VOC. Where in current value that has been THE most valuable company ever. The value of the VOC peaked in 1637 at almost 8 trillion dollar (in today's money)

[@HaiLsKuNkY]

The British east India company was in control of India, that was the colonial power, stock market investors in London.

[@ronnyhansson8713]

USA (and sweden) didnt have ALL their manifacturing destroyed during the war so we ((the US and sweden) could pretty easly go back to "normal" production since our factories and cities werent just a big pile of stones and ash (like in germany and bigger part of europe, russia and GB - everything was destroyed and all factories still standing were now making war materials, HUGE numbers of dead skilled workers was also a problem)

[@wessexdruid7598]

But just look at the springboard that gives W.Germany and Japan...

[@ronnyhansson8713]

@@wessexdruid7598I seem to recall freom history that they poureda LOT of money into west germany and japan to keep them from becoming commuists countries so the could rebuild and get manifacture going fast

[@unknowndane4754]

Great Ming is one of the Chinese empires. Mughals is a turkic empire that counquered most of India. Great Qinq is another Chinese empire, the one after Ming, this one was formed by the Manchu people. The East India company is the semi independent company that the UK established and that counquered/subjugated most of India. The British Raj is what the British Empire established after it siezed control from the East India Company. The Republic of China was the major Chinese government after the fall of Qinq, but was then in a large civil war with the Communist China. Hope this was helpful in getting some new info.

[@buurmeisje]

Great Ming and Great Qing are names for Chinese empires

[@itsakittyting]

I had to look up GDP (i am Dutch) - well, it is logical, your country is the teenager of the world; young, thinks it knows it all and looks down on the older wiser countries ☺ i find it hilarious when americans travel abroad and don't realize we've been here since forever - btw Dutch is from Holland aka The Netherlands, tiny country but fierce 🦁

[@JoelDZ]

Would have been cool to see you google some of the the bigger names you didnt know. There really weren't that many of them and it wouldn't've taken much time to just get a bit of basic knowledge in place

[@JoelDZ]

Edit: the fact you haven't heard of the British East India Company honestly shocked me. Almost makes me think you're pretending

[@tovarishcheleonora8542]

@@JoelDZ True. He could have heard about it at least from certain Pirate movies on minimum. If you know what i mean. So it's impossible that he didn't heard it somewhere before.

[@josewilliams6094]

Why would American be steeped in British history? They fought off the Redcoats and went their own way. Even colonised countries didn't know the truthful history of just how the British empire owned us. They controlled education, including our history books when I was at school, so all they taught us was how mighty England was and taught us to be little royalists. It wasn't until we grew up and educated ourselves we discovered just how our countries were (and many still are) controlled by the British with their royalist BS. Americans 'white-washed' their own history, sanitising it for 'Thanksgiving'. Be great if Ryan tackled the truth about Thanksgiving.

[@JoelDZ]

@@josewilliams6094 The East India Company is world history, not just British history. Nobody needs to be steeped in anything, this is history of colonialism 101. East India trading companies are maybe the second thing anyone outside of America might learn about after the existence of the transatlantic slave trade. The British one was a HUGE historical player and a fundamental part of Indian history and that of many other countries. India and Britain are some of your most important allies, you'd think they'd put the basics about them in a school curriculum somewhere. And honestly this channel has reacted to so much British stuff I'm just in disbelief he's never encountered the term before.

[@josewilliams6094]

You're clearly not in a country that still suffers. It's not relegated to 'history' because the indigenous people of Australia are still experiencing its effects of colonisation; generational suffering.. 'Australia Day' that celebrates the Captain Cook landing is known as 'Invasion Day' by the indigenous people who still mourn the destruction of their cultures. We're still finding mass graves from British genocide. And England has dragged us into too many wars. No more. @@JoelDZ

[@squarecircle1473]

This was really fun to watch! Indeed its like watching a race while you are commentating on it lol do more of these Ryan :D (tbh this makes me wanna play CIV6 and do a gold-focused playthrough lol)

[@fabianwhs9891]

During the 2 World Wars, all the european countries fought on their own grounds, which hurt their GDP massively, while the US sold weapons and the like to the countries and nade lots of money. And they only attacked in the last few moments of the wars and then took their part as a winning member I mean that's a way to get ahead too (I simplified a lot)

[@vanesag.9863]

Yes, and Spain got out of the chart in it's Civil War time. Latter Spain recovered GPD and got inside the chart in a lower level.

[@Scaleyback317]

Now imagine if The British Raj/Britain/Canada and the US had managed to remain as an entity.

[@parth17bhatia]

British Raj is the reason why India went down hill in this chart

[@Scaleyback317]

@@parth17bhatia What exactly does that mean - it's a meaningless statement. Perhaps you could explain.

[@parth17bhatia]

@@Scaleyback317 The control of India by the British East India Company is called the British Raj and siphoned over $1 trillion from India to finance the British Industrial Revolution. Thus leading to the downward trend for Indian GDP visible in this video.

[@Scaleyback317]

@@parth17bhatia Interesting you should focus on this and not the Moghul empire as it disappeared. It is what empires do, they come, they take and they fade away. It is what the Roman Empire did to Britain, it is what the Viking empire tried to do, It is what the Norman Empire did (and the remnants of that are still to be found in the gene pool of the UK. Some empires left a legacy some did not. Had it not been for the efficiency and yes, the avaricious nature, of the East India Company there would have been little of wealth in India as it would have been lost to the various warlords ravaging each others lands and the various princedoms/kingdoms making up the sub continent would have fallen to one or more of the other powers burgeoning from a fast advancing Europe. We'll never know for sure of course. Embrace your history and learn to treasure it rather than attempt to use it as an excuse for the ineptness of your leaders of that time period. Do you really think the Moghul empire treated its conquests in any other manner? Or your local warlords for that matter?

[@mccloudsw]

Are you suprised that US earned lot of money during ww1, ww2?

[@anneedwards664]

The UK was in debt to the US until fairly recently. Yes, we had to pay to stop the Germans taking over Europe and stop Japan taking over the East. The USA did lose people in both wars but didnt have air raids and bombs on their main cities and citizens. They had no clue what it was like in Europe ie devastation and innocent lives lost.

[@charlyquinn]

MORE CHARTS please! 😂That was so much fun ❤

[@novy1198]

im really suprised with the fact that Poland been (at least in early 1900's in top 10 industrial power of the world, thats kinda insane. I m a Pole and never knew that, you can see 1938 how it pretty much dropped instantly, so sad too see

[@echinorlax]

It's fascinating to see an empiric proof that Partitions didn't destroy local economy - but it kind of makes sense. The neighbors of Poland did that to get richer, not to burn everything to the ground. It's sad we never really rebuild to former status after 2WW, to this day - and I wonder, what held us more in the long run... 6 years under Nazis, or 45 under communists...

[@lulaa123]

Fun fact: even though germany had one of the highest gdps in 1932, it still had to declare bankruptcy due to being in so much debt from losing WW1

[@daveofyorkshire301]

GDP is a measure of turnover not profit. It's irrelevant knowing turnover if you aren't aware of costs, debt, deficit or the other economic markers.

[@lulaa123]

@@daveofyorkshire301 I know that it’s still something that i think would blow Ryan’s mind

[@tovarishcheleonora8542]

And let's wait until the americans finally stop with rising their own debt limit and declare bankrupcy. They are very likely has the world's most debt.

[@mickypescatore9656]

Hi, Ryan! Why Japan? Think of it: you drive a Toyota Corolla! 🤫

[@PatSen]

What staggered me was the ignorance of this lad. 😀. It’s incredible.

[@nolajoy7759]

It says a lot that all Ryan's questions have to be answered by viewers in the Comments. And that video is played double-speed.

[@williamwilkes9873]

😂Please don't equate the UK with america........

[@BlueFlash215]

Now watching the debt in relation to GDP would be interesting.

[@burningsheep4473]

Debt is overrated. Germany and some other countries are obsessed with it and Greece really paid for that, but Japan and the US have mountains of debt and nobody cares.

[@BlueFlash215]

@@burningsheep4473 I see the vast amount of knowledge you have concerning political science.

[@stonedmountainunicorn9532]

You should watch "Bill Wurtz' History of the entire world, i guess" for just a little sneak preview of the crazy stuff you don't know about.

[@-Scratchy-]

That video needs some old world championship commentator record to be super enjoyable 😂

[@tauripolma3648]

The start empire was China empire on start of video :) was great video

[@4Astaroth]

I love that Prussia/Germany is always in the top 10. :) I didn't know that Sweden was such a global player. They attacked Prussia and others around us but this was still a surprise.

[@daveofyorkshire301]

An interesting one would be Deficit or debt to GDP GDP alone is a false impression, if I earn 50,000 a month I sound like I'm getting a lot of money and I'm rich, but if I spend 50,100 a month to stand still I'm actually broke and have growing debts. Without looking at spending, debts or anything else GDP is irrelevant.

[@williamwilkes9873]

That is not rich..............That is l think l am rich.......,...

[@daveofyorkshire301]

@@williamwilkes9873 That is the United States of America. A deficit of $10,000 a SECOND growing debts of almost $34 Trillion in national debt and $212 Trillion in Unfunded Liabilities, not forgetting personal debt and student debt... Not forgetting the $1 Trillion trade deficit. Yet they think $25 Trillion in GDP makes them the richest country in the world. There are countries with no debt and actual sovereign reserves aka national surpluses. They're rich!

[@williamwilkes9873]

All is comparable.........what l value you may not, etc., etc., ..........l understand your points............How much everything is worth is in the end simply so individualistic l cannot value anything except personally.........stats., logic everything loses reason.............ln black/white, l cannot argue..............happy Christmas to you.............

[@williamwilkes9873]

I am not obsessive & am off out shortly but l like the way you clarified G.D.P., etc., .........thanks............l am richer for grasping your thoughts.

[@daveofyorkshire301]

@@williamwilkes9873 we are talking economics not shopping.

[@DavidSmith-cx8dg]

The Quin dynasty was China , the US . was left as the richest economy after the World wars , the British East India Company and Raj probably refer to the Empire separate from the UK economy prior to WW2

[@tovarishcheleonora8542]

Those very much do referred to what we not call india.

never heard of china? before been called china was the name of the emperor thats been used

[@Gutraidh]

No its not the name of the emperor. If its the name of the Emperor, Ming would be called Zhu and Qing would be called Aisin Gioro.

[@burningsheep4473]

Keep in mind that the US had only about 140 million inhabitants in 1945 and now it's about 330 million! European countries haven't grown as much. The British and French were at about 40+ million around the same time and grew to about 65 million.

[@b2w4life64]

japan produced electronics especially for the US market starting sometime in the 70s because they could produce it way cheaper then the US based companys could

[@vicdark8807]

The Mughal Empire was an Indian empire of mongol/turkish (the ruling elite) heritage. China and India has been the center of human economics for most of history.

[@user-ic8wh5su2t]

I watched you talk about a chart and yes it did sound like you were calling a race. It would be interesting to look at the debts of countries across the world.

[@Thurgosh_OG]

It would also be interesting to see who all the money was going to for those debts (I think the USA would feature prominently).

[@nabuli_9337]

Chernobyl blow up in 1986, the costs for the sarcophagus, cleanup and stuff were so high, it let to down downfall of the soviet union.

[@anduxmapping]

It hurts how most Europeans have heard of all of these places and you americans don't even know of the european countries today...

[@bencodykirk]

I watched you talk about a chart for 10 minutes, Ryan. I did.

[@TallisKeeton]

Mughal empire was today's India under the muslim rule. Polish - Lithuanian Commonwealth, known also as the 1th Republic of Poland was local power in Europe for about 4 centuries with about 30 nations inside of it (Polish, Ruthenian, Lithuanian, but also Jewish, German, Scotish, Dutch) actualy it got some potential in economy at those days :) When the English build their great fleet to conquer the world they destroyed most of their forests and from this point they would buy huge amounts of timbers from Poland.

[@Perisa79]

A funny story is that Republic of China is actually Taiwan, So in modern day today 2023 Taiwan is actually the Real China. " Originally based in Mainland China, the Republic Of China government retreated to Taiwan in 1949 after the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) won the Chinese Civil War and established the People's Republic of China (PRC) in Mainland China. I bet you didn't know that.. Not so many people actually do know that..

[@Gutraidh]

Surprising considering US interfered in the Civil War which is what led to the incomplete civil war today.

[@BlameThande]

These graph videos are usually not very good because they act as though all the data is reliable and it's changing 'live', when really they're artificially showing it changing between fixed number points. Also they're inconsistent about whether they show a country with its contemporary name and flag or not, which confused you with China. I would recommend some of the videos that show the changing map over time with information, like those by Emperor Tigerstar or Ollie Bye.

[@Nelsathis]

Not entirely related to the videos topic, but it would've been nice if you would've watched this in cinema mode, cause the channel logo obscured the year during most of the video.

[@garethfarman9540]

This is measured in USD. The UK lost 4th to France during the credit crunch. We then lost 10% of our market value against the USD and EUR and still overtook France in USD. Precisley at the time the USA and EU said we were goung to collapse in recession. When the GBP recovers its value our econony will appear to grow so much more internationally.

[@Kris2510]

Ryan never watched "Pirates of the Carribean" and hence doesn't know the British East India Company :-)

[@tl1897]

I had way to mutch fun, watching a Video about a chart

[@2727rogers]

Well the Great Qing is basically China plus their colonies and the British East India Company is also part of the British Empire. I guess this is more a list of entities and not countries.

[@Molikai]

I find that a little disingenious. Why did it seperate the UK from the British empire (Like, british east india company, British Raj....)

[@joanneczka9843]

5:43:00 "where's East Germany? " Did you ever heared about DDR? It was the part of Ostblok, controled by Soviets

[@marloneilers3459]

Printing away debt, germany tryed that and the result hyper inflation

[@perer005]

Ming/Quin/China has been #1 in GDP for most of history until getting passed by the US, and it seems like China will retake it's #1 spot pretty soon simply because of having a larger population than the US. I think a lot of people in the US are unaware that China think of themselves as being #1 but having a temporary set back the last 150 years which is a short time period for China's history but not for the US.

[@Thurgosh_OG]

For China, it's not so much about population size as the fact that China is still classed as a developing country (India is similar) by the world trade federation, mainly because China has a big hand in their pocket. In the same way that China has control of the World Health Organisation (WHO), where every sub committee of 5 people has at least 3 Chinese representatives. Why are countries with Space programs still classed as 'Developing nations'?

[@timglennon6814]

The Qing Dynasty was the final Imperial dynasty in China from 1644 to 1912.

[@CRBarchager]

1:55 I believe this is mentioned in multible pirate movies and series like Pirates of the Carribean and Black Sails.

[@BambuuucaCZ]

Great Ming, Great Qing, Republic of China are basically all China Mughal Empire, British East India Company, British Raj are basically all India

[@esrohm6460]

just to mention ming and qing(ching) are both china and republic of china is what now is taiwan but it started as all of china

[@Ace-Of-Spades---]

The Mughal Empire was in India before the British took over India. One of the most famous Moguls is Shah Jahan, who built the Taj Mahal, among other things.

[@HH-hd7nd]

The Ming and Quing dynasties are chinese dynasties - in short, it's China. The Mughal Empire was a large empire in India and the Himalayas. British Raj is the colonial rule and oppression of the Indian subcontinent.

[@Draugheim]

This video would be very different if it were per capita. Thats really the more interesting statistics anyway. Imagine, in theory, splitting 1 billion dollars between 350 million people (the U.S), or between 5 ish million people (norway). Thats a huge difference in whats being spent on each person (in theory, of course).

[@TheKhalamar]

Interesting to see Belgium show up in ~1790 even though it was part of the Netherlands until 1830. If I had to guess, Japan's GDP was so high in the 80s thanks to the electronic industry - think Nintendo, Sega, Sony, and many others. Many digital watches were Japanese as well (Casio, Seiko, ...)

[@Gazer75]

The video with GDP per capita is more interesting IMO.

[@DieGurke_]

British East India Comapny i have only heard in the Pirates of the Caribbean Moves

[@TheGabrielPT]

Great Qing is essentially China

[@duckmcduck007]

gdp per capita next :)

[@Temeraire101]

Don’t worry Bud, not heard of a few of these myself, UK will be jumping up soon, mainly due to India.

[@Thurgosh_OG]

"Jumping up", what do you mean by this?

[@clovebeans713]

Bud lives in 1858 victorian time

[@MellonVegan]

"The great Quinn" that just has to be on purpose.

[@kevingrant7098]

If this was up-to-date, UK wouldn’t be as high thanks to Conservatives and Brexit

[@optimusvalerius8824]

The Great Qin [ think of China, Ryan it started out as a Chinese kingdom that conquered the rest of China ]

[@Gutraidh]

Qin and Qing are two different dynasties... Qin is from 221 BCE and Qing is from 1636 CE

[@thoso1973]

Dozens of Empires and regional superpowers saw their rise and fall and endured hundreds of wars, before the United States even existed. The Mongols ruled most of Central Asia and Eastern Europe for a short while. Sweden was once the strongest power in Europe; the Netherlands once had the most powerful trade company in the World (Dutch East India Company) and a potent navy and merchant fleet to protect it. And so on...

[@mariospacagna2132]

As the American mainland was not invaded during WW11 they profiteered from manufacturing for the war effort and later from the hardship that Europe suffered. The UK only finished paying off the loan from the USA in recent times

[@HaiLsKuNkY]

GDP is not a measurement of wealth but is economic activity.

[@stephenpimm5940]

Mughal Empire is Indian. Obvs, taken over by the East Indian Trading company (featured in Pirates of the Caribbean, incorrectly). As others have pointed out the US didn't lose infrastructure during WW2.

[@AndyViant]

Of course you really need to add United Kingdom and British Raj/British East India Company together to understand British power in the 19th Century. Oh and some little countries like Canada and Australia and South Africa and New Zealand too.

[@rmyikzelf5604]

The chart you are looking at can't be complete or correct for instance for the netherlands. Why is the British East India company in this list but not the VOC which was bigger at times. Belgium didn't exist in 1780, large parts of it (the richest part) was part of the Dutch Republic. Indonesia in 1870 was still firmly held by the Dutch Republic too.

[@DenUitvreter]

Nonsense. The Southern Netherlands were never part of the Dutch Republic, they had been seperate since the 1580's. Belgium was first the Spanish Netherlands and in 1780 the Austrian Netherlands. In 1870 the then kingdom of the Netherlands was only starting the colonization of Indonesia and in 1780 the VOC didn't hold Indonesia at all, it ruled a small part of Java and a few small islands. The British East Indian Company started to rule the Indian subcontinent at one time, that's the difference I guess. The Dutch herring fleet also doesn't pop up in the list and that always made more money annually than the whole VOC. Both were dwarfed by the Dutch share, more than half, of the European trade but that was not in one company but in tens of thousands of individual ships or small fleets.

[@PRINCE-by2zw]

Indias economy is 4 trillion economy according to international monetary fund 2023-24 With the fastest growing major economy in the world 😎 india will be 3rd largest economy by 2026 according to IMF database

[@jeffafa3096]

1:18 This is clearly the Dutch Golden Age, you can see The Netherlands rushing upwards here...

[@DenUitvreter]

The Dutch Golden Age started in the 1570's and ended in the 1672. So it seems about 30 years off. Maybe because it's gross domestic product, the Dutch Republic did more than half of all European trade but also between two foreign countries or even between ports in a foreign country, so that probably isn't counted as Dutch domestic product.

[@boterham5]

They forgot abt the Dutch East India Company tho, it was the biggest and most powerful trade company in the world during the golden age, how did they manage to leave that out

[@johnsimmons5951]

The USA did really well out of WWII. In the 1960s I used to love watching the comedy Bewitched, and many things in it were as if they were from a different world: telephone in the home, drinking orange juice from a carton etc etc. I would say from the 1980s it in the UK, the culture in Bewitched (ie 1960s USA) looked comparable to what I was living.

[@cireenasimcox1081]

---Ryan - I would really like to know what you think the GDP is, and what it measures? Americans tend to give it a lot of importance; whereas in Economic evaluation the GDP is a "Lagging Indicator" . Also, it tells us nothing about all the indicators which measure employment, personal wealth, wealth distribution, unemployment figures, tax distribution, happiness levels - all the metrics which go into economic evaluation. Because it seems that not many of your politicians/pastors/panels know what it means either.There are dozens of USA commentators on TV now who extrapolate that the USA is the wealthiest country every, in the entire history of the world. By now that's taken as a valid statement as more people repeat it. At first it was just funny. It's a ludicrous statement: Long before the Greeks, or the Egyptians there have been towns, cities, countries, kingdoms whose wealth can hardly be evaluated.The citizens were prosperous and dressed in beautiful clothes and jewels; they had heated floors & walls; and marble plumbing. It's so exciting to learn about the different civilizations and how people lived. But after a while you start thinking that it's just one of those firmly held beliefs which make some people seem arrogant. People with very little knowledge of the history of the world before WWII, and absolutely sod-all about anything that happened before American Independence, people confidently stating that they were the wealthiest country ever to walk the world.😂 Hence my question - I'd love to know what the importance of the GDP is to you.

[@vallejomach6721]

Wait until they discover their democracy index rank.

[@Hosigie]

I mean, of course the US pulled ahead during WW1 and WW2. They earned so much money from the war, without being affected AT ALL. The wars were fought on our lands, not yours. We had to rebuild after them.

[@TallisKeeton]

Why Poland is mentioned around 1800 I dont understand. At this time we were part of 3 empires - Austria-Hungary, Prussia and Russia.