Largest Economies in the World 1600-2022 | Top 15 Countries by GDP

This video shows the top 15 countries with the highest GDP from 1600 to 2022. It gives a brief history of the world economy since the 1600s.
Chinese and Indian empires were ahead until 1900s while the US started leading after the 20th century.
Gross domestic product, or GDP, is the monetary measure of the market value of all the final goods and services produced in a specific time period by countries. It is calculated using the formula: GDP = Consumption + Investment + Government Investment + (Exports - Imports).
This video uses the historical empires (Mughal Empire, Qing Dynasty, Prussia, Empire of Japan, etc.) which makes it the most accurate.
However, since this comparison goes back so far into the past, the numbers should only be take as an estimate as most historians don't even agree on a specific number.
Source:
The Angus Maddison Project & World Bank & IMF & United Nations
Music: Curse of the scarab - Kevin Macleod

[@reporol]

When a company is wealthier than the country it comes from😳

[@lillekenatnek195]

east india company xd

[@hopetagulos]

@kaan aras roubando de Portugal.

[@yuumiko3060]

@@hopetagulos cope

[@CorvusLeukos]

Not wealthier but more productive since they had more population

[@notvergingai1053]

@kaan aras cope.

[@AlbertEinstein-qt2uw]

During the time of Mauryans and Gupta's: Indian economy contributed 32% of world's GDP When British came to India: India's contribution to the world's GDP was 27% When British left India: India's contribution to the world's GDP was 0.008%

[@moiceey]

Without British influence in India. India would probably look something like Pakistan today or maybe even worse.

[@AlbertEinstein-qt2uw]

@@moiceey save your Britain...otherwi it'll go bankrupt very soon 😂

[@moiceey]

@@AlbertEinstein-qt2uw lol I agree with you about that

[@AmanVerma-qh9jv]

@PranavXD yes and if British never came, maybe the partition would never have happened.

[@AlbertEinstein-qt2uw]

@PranavXD and before Mughals, there were Mauryans, Guptas,etc.

[@Optidorf]

Gotta love the fact that Belgium was in the top 15 in 1772, 58 years before its inception.

[@jrsun]

You’re right. You got that AP euro knowledge.

[@Capelle79]

Nice catch, pretty sure was still the Netherlands back then right?

[@user-gq2ln3dg3z]

Also Prussia, HRE and 'Habsburg Monarchy' all being shown as 3 seperate countries even though all 3 being the same country/entity...

[@mobrown7594]

That’s why this list is bull crap lol

[@pawerosinski1322]

Just like Poland in the 19th century when it was not on the maps

[@Tout-Le-Monde02]

3:01 - the jump that the East India Company made circa 1757 was solely because they defeated the last ruler of Bengal and occupied it. Bengal was the richest province of the Mughal Empire and the revenue that the company got from it alone was 1/3 of the British empire's total GDP annually ......

[@Duck_The_Coloniser]

India is an example for what happens when there isn't a centralized country at the correct time

[@believeme1001]

Please explain what you r sayin please

[@ashu0]

one more point- when your country is ruled by religion.... this happens.

[@marcusvergara6193]

@@believeme1001 when a bunch of countries aren’t United, they become easier to invade. If India was United, it wouldn’t become the British raj.

[@telefon8102]

@@marcusvergara6193 😂 nope read about british-mughal wars

[@rhythmmandal3377]

@@marcusvergara6193 Most of india wasn't really INVADED, the British just said give us money and we supply you with good stuff and guess what it worked. It's only the hindi/urdu speaking morons who are the one that got invaded because they were way to stupid to co operate + most of the soldirs of the EIC ware other indians.

[@kasahne5925]

Germany lost 2 worldwars and its still top 4. Respect!

[@23Drazse]

Germany is the engine of the European economy.

[@tigerdavid3982]

India looted by 500y.muslims kings, 200 British but still in top 5 great bharat 🇮🇳🇮🇳👍

[@North_annex]

@@tigerdavid3982 yeah

[@Hammad_8]

Bro British looted not Mughals. Mughals stayed in India they didn’t went anywhere how can you say they looted

[@North_annex]

@@Hammad_8 muslim kings dont only mean the mughals

[@lawrencewood289]

Absolutely amazing work!!! I do think there are some currency calculation issues as aside from wars some countries flip pretty rapidly. Shows the utter devastation the Thirty Years War wrought on Germany (Holy Roman Empire). Also shows how the Ottomans failed to industrialize. Fascinating the positions of the UK and France thru the years. I'm shocked Prussia's economy was as large as it was. Sad to show how recently the Italian economy has withered. Demonstrates the utter dominance of the US and China.

[@lilmech3677]

I like how during both world wars, the rest of the world was losing money, while the US was going gas gas mode during both world wars

[@gaupa007]

That's because unlike Europe where every factory got blown to pieces, and their production not managing to keep up demands. The US didn't get blown up and they produced a surplus. Selling the surplus to the countries in war, and giving them loans which provided a huge boost to their economy.

[@willjapheth23789]

Apparently, the USA decided it was time to grow in the 1820s and just didn't stop. The rapid growth of Japan and the USSR is also pretty impressive, though it only lasted a few decades.

[@AndrewJ9673]

The US was a quickly growing economy ever since the 1740s and 1750s. Britain didn't regulate too much in the colonies, and real estate, farming, and a few other industries made it a very profitable area, which was part of the tension that led to the Revolution. When the US became independent, it appealed to skilled and unskilled laborers from different European countries and sects of Christianity, which gave it a constantly expanding population, alongside westward settlement and MORE real estate schemes. The explosion of the cotton industry to meet European demand also helped fuel America's own industrial revolution in the East Coast, and it's why the US was able to expand so much. While Europe has always been stratified and land has been passed down through generations, with a lower and lower population growth due to disease, famine, and a lack of migrants, the US was taking on immigration waves and had a constant surplus of labor and land for new industry and new settlement. I'm sure if you looked at a population chart you'd see the US take a similar trend as they do here. It's pretty crazy.

[@NeostormXLMAX]

qing proved china was always the top economy so it going back to the top isn't out of the norm

[@AndrewJ9673]

@@NeostormXLMAX China was only a top economy because, by medieval and age of exploration standards, they had everything. Today, they rely on the rest of the world for food, electronics, and investment. Industrial products that don't rely as much on raw materials as they do on industry and technical workers. They are still a second-rate economy in terms of development and per-capita gross product, with a long way to go.

[@rostyslavkozhushko5841]

God save the King!

[@Big_Caesar1]

@@NeostormXLMAX Qing had massive labor force, but huge peasant population. USA was highly skilled compared to China.

[@CCC-zg9ii]

From thousands of years ago to the present, there are only a few civilizations that have experienced countless rises and falls and are still standing.

[@kenng9742]

Only one, China

[@truetool]

​@@kenng9742 India

[@leventklnc701]

Turks

[@kaiser6332]

Germany

[@A_a_A_a_A_a_A]

Japan

[@NERFGAMERYT]

Huge Respect for *India & Germany* {Struggled the most} still on top 4,5

[@eliasvonbrille]

It's insane to me that India is 5th. How can the quality of life be so insanely low while the government is so wealthy. What kind of Government is that?

[@yvpsghend6425]

​@@eliasvonbrille GDP is not the government's wealth. It is the country's collective wealth (including the government). The quality of life is comparatively low because of the huge population. The per capita income is low in India.

[@eliasvonbrille]

@@yvpsghend6425 What I was suggesting is that the Government has a lot of the wealth while the people don't. Honestly it's also probably partly because of the insane gap between poor and rich. It was just shocking to me that a third world country would be basically on par with some of the most developed and most amazing to life in country's in the world. Something really went wrong there.

[@bhaskarbose9706]

@eliasvonbrille.. what do you mean by the government of India having a lot of wealth? Are you talking about tax revenue collected? If that's so, then even if the tax revenue is high compared to other countries, the amount of money that gets reinvested to each person (per capita) is still very low because of the high population.

[@hemantsinha23]

​@@eliasvonbrille GDP means per capita× Population. It does mean government has money, but it has to manage a huge Population also

[@p80mod]

Nice start for Poland! Would probably be even better if the video started with 1500s - that was Poland's golden age.

[@y.d.8656]

Got no idea why Poland is here as a separate country in 1800s, when it actually used to be a part of three empires

[@lothar3610]

@@y.d.8656Duchy of Warsaw to Congress Poland my friend. Read about it.

[@p80mod]

@@y.d.8656 Because it had a separate economy

[@niyazisunay9839]

1500s-1600s was for ottomans and for poland golden age

[@HerrClementzin]

I am amazed how Mexico, despite the fact that it has not had peace in a very short time in its history has been among the top 20 economies for almost an entire century.

[@MrCarlGW]

Mexico has a lot of potential today.

[@alr6111]

Lol Mexico sux. Lost half its territory to America.

[@alr6111]

Plus, the US only existed for 6 years and made it into the top 15.

[@fayero5]

México puede ser una potencia mundial del top 5 si quisieran sus mandatarios, pero un pais realmente es próspero cuando sus habitantes viven bien independientemente de su pib Un saludo desde España 🇪🇸 🤝🇲🇽

[@blasco3245]

México has a Lot of potencial, but they Will never be a powerful economy because of their stockholm syndrome with usa

[@jirachi-wishmaker9242]

British Raj means British Rule. British Crown omitted the Hindustan/India part after they took over in 1857(because of the revolt) from British East India company . Still the army was called British Indian Army.

[@andym9571]

Because most of the Army were Indians

[@christophermurpy3803]

This has the french empire, Spanish empire but the tool who does these never shows the British empire as a whole? I love the way the USA jumps straight in, I wonder where all the money was going to before 1776?

[@aksmex2576]

Same with Canada. It would have been a part of the empire. Although we were thaught the Brits subsidized Canada's industry in return for soldiers and loyalty.

[@indiasuperclean6969]

SIR MY INDIA IS THE REAL SUPERPOWER 🤗🇮🇳 WE HAVE THE BEST INFRASTRUCTURE AND HIGHSPEED RAIL 🤗🇮🇳 MEANWHILE IN CHINA PEOPLE STILL RIDE RICKSHAW EVERYWHERE AND THEY ALSO POOR DONT HAVE CAR . THIS WHY IM SO LUCKY LIVE IN SUPER INDIA THE CLEANEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD 🇮🇳🤗 , WE NEVER SCAM! WE GIVE RESPECT TO ALL WOMEN THEY CAN WALK SAFELY ALONE AT NIGHT AND WE HAVE CLEAN FOOD AND TOILET EVERYWHERE 🇮🇳🤗🚽, I KNOW MANY POOR PEOPLE JEALOUS WITH SUPER RICH INDIA 🤗🇮🇳🤗🇮🇳🤗🇮🇳🤗🇮🇳🤗🇮🇳🤗🇮🇳

[@jirachi-wishmaker9242]

@@indiasuperclean6969 CCP Bot

[@dive2drive314]

This is very cool how you do these videos. Subscribed.

[@Caglexercises]

Thanks!

[@gozhdaa]

Thank You

[@hhah5918]

Japan boost from the 70's is goosebumps

[@FBI.capturo.gente.rara.]

The Spanish empire had the real de a 8 the most important currency in the world for a long time that even the other European empires had to use that currency if they wanted to trade in Asia.

[@FBI.capturo.gente.rara.]

Example the United Kingdom had to pay with that currency when it wanted to get Singapore from the Malacca Sultanate

[@dazd14]

REAL DE 8 COMES FROM NEW SPAIN, even in 1900's USA used mexican silver currency until dollars became the most powerful currency, real de 8 is novohispanic/mexican silver, let us all remember that fact

[@FBI.capturo.gente.rara.]

@@dazd14 New Spain is part of Spain

[@juanmanuelgonzalezvazquez1913]

El real de 8 se acuñaba también en Bolivia y Perú y se empezó a acuñar en el continente americano a partir del siglo XVII, pero su origen es el la corona de Castilla en 1497

[@Civitas_pix]

Great work 👏 well done 👏

[@bitsyboo1278]

I really enjoyed this work thank you

[@mehakbrar3944]

Mughal empire then East india company then british raj and now india 🇮🇳 india remained in game all the time

[@papagator7471]

Quality of living in today's India is worse. Starving people

[@amit_awadhi]

@@papagator7471 Starving? 🤣🤣 World should thank India for saving Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Egypt and entire Africa from starvation by supplying them wheat in these times or war. Global hunger index is really joke 😂😂😂

[@Mrinalini.m]

@@papagator7471 No !!! Who is starving!!! Indian government has been giving free food / ration to 80 crores people for past 3 years!!! Who is dying of hunger???? No one under poverty line anymore!!!!

[@Mrinalini.m]

Watch their video from 1 st century AD world economies!!

[@Comical_LLama]

But at what cost

[@danielwoods3896]

Despite being a relatively small country that lost two world wars and was decimated in constant warfare for hundreds of years while having much fewer colonial possessions than the rest of Europe, Germany is still the 4th strongest economy on earth and the strongest in Europe. That’s quite impressive

[@seanthe100]

There's nothing impressive about it, Germany had a large population and was overstretched by having colonial processions.

[@davidlahaye1202]

The benefits of having so many rivers running throughout the country

[@yassine1806]

Its 2nd dont count china and usa germany is strong on its own usa n china are strong cuz they have so many countries as there bitches

[@franckvermont1926]

@@seanthe100 they did not had colonial possessions. But it is not the colonies which make one's country rich

[@Haijwsyz51846]

@@franckvermont1926 Are you kidding? Surely colonies had made the European countries rich. For example, the British government received taxes from all of its colonies. You forgot why America became independent. It was for paying taxes.

[@VeggieReddy]

Great video

[@dmandal.jaalcar]

How do you get all these detailed data? What are the sources for the figures you quote with 10 digit accuracy? 😱 Are you sure so much accurate results exist from 3 centuries ago?

[@amareshsingh1460]

A lot of things changed during and after industrial revolution. Before that GDP for any empire/country was mostly dependent on their population as most of work was done with hands which meant more working hands is equal to more productivity. Industrial revolution and subsequent imperialism meant much smaller countries were ruling the charts. Great Britain/United Kingdom for example was one of biggest economies because they were supplier for one of biggest consumers of that time British Raaj. But since India was so huge, even the internal economy (which was predominantly agriculture based) resulted in such huge GDP for British Raaj. Per capita GDP would have given better picture where we could have clearly seen almost similar value for most countries and then a sharp rise for countries where Industrial Revolution happened.

[@CountingStars333]

It's not just population, and population also depends upon wealth and progress. Per capita too India and china were ahead of Europe for a long time.

[@abcdmefgh2843]

​@@CountingStars333lol, lmao

[@HelloWorld-cq1sq]

Good points. I also think GDP (PPP) is useful to look at, because that reflects that in India, $10 buys more goods / services than $10 buys in the US. Hence India may have less money, but it can accomplish more with a certain amount of money than the US can, e.g. because Indian labor costs are lower. In terms of GDP (PPP), the list goes: China, then US, then India, then Japan, then Germany, then Russia.

[@indiancowpeedrinker9241]

Helo ur compooder has virus

[@calvinfinney5083]

Yeah that's the confusing part of this illustration. Industrial production via the Industrial Revolution should have shifted the economic balance towards the European nations in the mid to late 1700's.

[@josephhoward4697]

It’s amazing that the U.S. reached #2 by the first centennial and then took the #1 spot only ten years later, in 1888. Seriously, we moved really fast. Far faster than I thought, that’s for sure!

[@YoJimBoHugabaJoe]

Well all the locals were all easily exterminated and there not many neighbouring nations with standing armies and little threat from a naval invasion

[@miguelcarunchod.1493]

They took the land from the Indian tribes and once the petrol oil became the new energy source they found out in the USA territory was where it was easier to extract.

[@josephhoward4697]

@@miguelcarunchod.1493 Cool

[@parkyamato9450]

@@miguelcarunchod.1493 so? they were still able to tho?

[@miguelcarunchod.1493]

@@parkyamato9450 one of the methods they used were blankets infected with smallpox which caused an epidemic. If you been been aware of recent world events, the whole world would be pissed if someone tried to do that nowadays.

[@GrizzerBear]

Imagine having the largest economy in the world for 125 straight years, and still being 31 Trillion in debt....

[@tolissimus4015]

No contradiction here

[@gloverfox9135]

The majority of that debt is internal, money that is owed to other US companies.

[@grimmsby3011]

Every major country is in debt to each other in some way or another, it's not uncommon. Did you think this was esoteric and secret knowledge you were dropping on everyone?

[@Posidon09]

Problem with that statement is that while it sounds huge for any other country that's a around 125 percent ratio. If you look at china and include their province debt than they are iver 200 percent

[@shaansingh6048]

Every country has huge debts its economic knowledge to always keep big debts

[@thesame4076]

most fascinating 8 minutes I have ever spent looking at a graph.

[@armchairwarrior963]

China from two thousand years ago and to today, still on the same list.

[@Mrinalini.m]

No it was INDIA on top for hundreds of years

[@armchairwarrior963]

@@Mrinalini.m India is a modern concept. Mogul Muslim united India, British United India. Indians in the past were different countries, different languages and peoples etc... So it was not.

[@reddragon100]

@@armchairwarrior963 Nation states are new concept. India today has many language and culture. Empire like Mauryan, Gupta, Delhi, Sultanate, Mughals and Martha do exist

[@reddragon100]

@@Mrinalini.m Yeah. Many empires united India from Mauryan to delhi to mughals. Every modern state is new. By that logic, current china is from 1949

[@reddragon100]

@@armchairwarrior963 Mauryans and Delhi sultanate united it too.

[@Ponanoix]

If you count HRE as a whole, then you should definitely count 'Prussia' 's GDP as part of PLC's one, up until 1660s (until then it was a fief)

[@ilikeonions1051]

This is really confusing graph, countries are counted even if they dont exist at certain points

[@kiteparker4310]

@@ilikeonions1051 which?

[@ilikeonions1051]

@@kiteparker4310 sorry bro but i am not going to rewatch this video, i dont remember which from 7 months ago 😂

[@user-gq2ln3dg3z]

No, that's not true. Only East Prussia (area around Königsberg) was a 'fief', but it was an autonomous region with in the PLC. The rest of Prussia(the bigger parts) had been a part of the HRE/Kingdom of Germany.

[@Ponanoix]

@@user-gq2ln3dg3z You're talking about Brandenburg, which was independent and was part of the HRE, true. But it wasn't Prussia. It became core part of the Kingdom of Prussia in 1701 (I believe), so when Electorate of Brandenburg and Duchy of Prussia united

[@Metalix]

I'm sure that Persia in the 1600 and early 1700 centuries should have been considered in this list but it wasn't put, what is your source?

[@kkknotcool]

I don't know, the bottom of this list was like the Dutch. They were a fairly rich nation during the turn of the century. I wouldn't be surprised if they had a bigger GDP than Persia. I mean this is pre automation so the biggest indicator of wealth in a nation is the population of skilled labor/trades people. Persia had a population of 7 million to the Dutch 2 million. So considering Persia was mostly peasant farmers at the time and the Dutch had a big trade/middle class population I wouldn't be surprised if Persia had a lower GDP. (if you go back to the middle ages I'm sure the Dutch would have less money but 1700s probably not)

[@pinoypride9202]

You noticed that japan was almost stagnant in the last 30 years, i think they reached their economic potential at its limit.

[@domokun845]

Well, they literally call it the lost decades and if you research the reason, it isn't because the Japanese stopped being efficient. It was the US doing the same thing to them that they're trying to do to China. Which is strangle their growth because they were a threat. They will keep repeating this eventially to India, Vietnam, and any other country that threatens American hegemony.

[@nganvo840]

With inflation they can't go up

[@supahsmashbro]

They got screwed over by America with the Plaza Accords, check it out. America is trying similar tactics on China right now

[@Rickybaba96]

Portugal 🇵🇹 and Netherlands 🇳🇱 are honestly quite impressive. Both are tiny in terms of land and population (when compared to other powers), both have far larger neighbours, both managed to be top economic powers for centuries.

[@skyvuegen]

Belgium also impressive

[@notme1628]

It’s because of stealing Africas wealth.

[@skyvuegen]

@@notme1628 cope

[@Rickybaba96]

@@notme1628 Thats basic imperialism. Africans were stealing each others wealth prior to and during European colonialism. Also you're wrong. The colonisation of most of Africa was costly with the exception of a few colonies. Most of the wealth of these Empires came from the Americas and Asia. Portugal relied on its Asian colonies and then heavily on Brazil, Spain on its vast American Empire, and Netherlands on Indonesia. Even the British relied mostly on their South Asian colonies. In fact, with the exception of Belgium and the late Portuguese Empire, Europeans did not rely on African wealth. One can make the argument that the most important thing to come out of Africa were the slaves, rather than its resources, since the slaves allowed Europeans to grow their economic strength in the Americas.

[@notme1628]

@@Rickybaba96 France until now is stealing from Africa go see what the Italian prime minister ( Giorgia Meloni ) said + the wealth that Europeans took from america it was for the origin people who lived there. For europe to rise innocent people suffered but every nation have there time my nation Arabs had there time ( the golden age of Islam ) Persian had there’s + the Turks and much more.

[@CoffeeSuccubus]

Imagine if Japan never had that economic crash

[@aredtomato8957]

It meant to be. Because Murica won't allow other country to be no.1. just look at how they treat CN today but I don't think CN is easy as JP. And Murica is crumbling. 😂

[@macrolosses]

They would still have a demographic nightmare.

[@yogadarmawan3051]

Yeah so sad, stagnantion and demographic problem will make japan become 1st developed country to suffer in future

[@Jay-pq7nf]

@@aredtomato8957 “Murica” isn’t the reason Japan gdp growth ended. It is its own aging population.

[@djfhsusbruh6698]

It was going to have that sooner or later. It could have been less bad but Japan was never going beyond US.

[@adrianmolina1211]

-Argentina, que haces ahí? -Me anotó un amigo

[@Hidayat391]

Too good!

[@arnaudpayet6173]

The fact that France and UK have been in the top 5 / top 10 for the past 400 years is pretty impressive !!

[@masterniggoway]

@Ram Chod I wonder why is British Museum called international robbery showpiece museum

[@kye4216]

@@masterniggoway well it’s lucky they did or all those artefact’s would have been destroyed

[@DiogoSilva-og7tc]

@@masterniggoway Visit country, take souvenir. "OMG THAT'S LITERALLY STEALING WTFFF"

[@manumudgal4988]

Yeh due to colonialism and economic exploitation of countries.

[@xochitlxochipa4965]

Also does Spain, Just behind these two countries ...

[@moritz9077]

f1 reporter be like "here comes usa!!" "thru goes china!!!"

[@mrcool2107]

And then comes India

[@bridgecross]

4:30 US to UK: now u regret breaking up?

[@TC2290-wh5cb]

The British didn't do the breaking up.

[@AleExocet]

Where did you get the historical data to produce this video?

[@ReyZar666]

there is so much waisted potential in LA Brazil - Argentina - Mexico could be top 10 in a heart bit, if the conditions are met

[@michelvanhaverbeke410]

Belgium didn’t exist before 1830

[@ommsterlitz1805]

It's so dumb, Poland, Belgium, Netherland, Spain Italy were all part of France during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars it would have shown more countries but i guess he was too lazy

[@Romanball5677]

Qing dynasty had a bigger gdp then Russian empire also I like that you used the photo I showed what Moscow look like in the 1860s

[@marioserraghini2119]

I would like to know where these data are taken from.

[@MEGIDIOT]

Now do one with the countries where economic wealth is most equitably shared among the population.

[@shasha0076]

Small countries will always top in that. Less people more resources 🤣🙌

[@hojoohong6682]

I like this video.👍👍👍

[@bn0372]

Can we just talk about how the ottoman empire just slowly died out from top 3 to oblivion...

[@KevinLLH]

6:24 can obviously tell who was profiting most from WW2

[@YoJimBoHugabaJoe]

Any chance of one showing the gdp of entire empires and not each individual part counted as a seperate entity

[@LRomano]

1:23 Italy enters as the 8th richest on the planet and remains there for more than 400 years is a great achievement and stereotypes come to say that we are in crisis

[@yeeterrl5700]

In terms of gdp but life quality and economic growth Italy is in crisis

[@chevyjd2007]

Italy wasnt unified until like the late 19 century.

[@SMGJohn]

GDP does not equate to people being rich, imagine being this ignorant.

[@LRomano]

@@chevyjd2007 n nothing at the time of our roman empire which was until 1453 the italy peninsula was already unified

[@uckbritley1305]

@@LRomano If you're gonna count the fall of rome as the fall of the byzantine empire, you'll be very disappointed to learn that eastern rome only held the majority of Italy for a few years in the year 565 and then it was never unified until modern Italy. And also they were Greek and not Italian lol

[@giulioBonati]

Italy stayed stabily in the same decent spot for 300 years. Not bad after all

[@luisabarca7363]

Somebody could, please, tell me what is the background music of this excellent video?...

[@Monty2022]

In the 1880s, Britain should have the largest economy since it ruled the British Raj

[@FodaseNaoLigo]

No.

[@Monty2022]

@@FodaseNaoLigo yes.

[@FodaseNaoLigo]

@@Monty2022 no

[@PokeCastle]

@@FodaseNaoLigo yes

[@Monty2022]

@@FodaseNaoLigo yes

[@biggiedii4889]

Australia doing really well considering their small population.

[@alisgrin2524]

Sí y sobre todo teniendo en cuenta que los aborígenes, legalmente formaban parte de la FAUNA, hasta 1965...

[@IhaveBigFeet]

But they have unlimited resources, the impressive one is South Korea which yes has more people but is maybe 4% the size of australia with no natural resources.

[@IhaveBigFeet]

My bad South Korea is 1.1% the size of Australia.

[@biggiedii4889]

@@IhaveBigFeet "The most important reserves are of anthracite coal, iron ore, graphite, gold, silver, tungsten, lead, and zinc, which together constitute some two-thirds of the total value of mineral resources." Straight from Google. South Korea is also a big rice producer.

[@xwqi]

The famous quote of the US President: The US dollar is my currency, but it is indeed your trouble

[@adrianredzik725]

You included Poland during the time when there was no Poland on the map, where did you get those numbers?

[@kalacaptain4818]

We made it up 🤷‍♀️

[@lothar3610]

Congress Poland - puppet state of Russia.

[@enderman_of_d00m24]

I find it simply amazing that, even when the economy shrank by a shit ton during 1929-1933, the us economy didn't even leave from it's top spot.

[@franckvermont1926]

Well, US is more comparable to EU because of its size

[@olddogoddments675]

Other economies were also affected by the Great Depression. That explains the US staying at the top spot then.

[@enderman_of_d00m24]

@@olddogoddments675 let's not forget thou. the Soviets were cut off from the world economy, so they weren't effected at all unlike other nations

[@TheYaq]

Even its a fight for ppl which country is the best , we should all stand together in peace

[@guard6069]

You want peace? Then prepare for war, because as long men exist there is not gonna be peace

[@GalenaPatrena]

Now we need a relative comparison of Debt to GDP for all Nations during that timeframe.

[@michaelh1889]

Outstanding intel... 😊

[@cdersaolka1196]

5:44 Ottoman empire disappeared 6:31 Turkiye is back 6:53 and never seen again

[@Ambatukambuzz]

:(

[@zekeriyayuksel8289]

In 1923, the Ottoman Empire collapsed and the Republic of Türkiye was established.

[@zekeriyayuksel8289]

6:52 The reason for Turkey's return was that it did not participate in the 2nd World War, so it had a short-term jump.

[@davidreichert9392]

I'd be interested to see thsi with the EU having its own bar (but also keeping the respective individual members)

[@SuperSanic..]

Eu was no1 until 2011/12 when West(mainly france and USA) attacked Libya for their interest and flooded europe with migrants and refugees. They not only took refugees for destroying libya but also lost several trading partners as Libya was the richest African country and many other African countries relied on Libya for loans, investments and remittance.

[@whatifnik.....1611]

EU is doomed now

[@kkpenney444]

That's like saying hey, let's have all of South America on one bar.

[@Rorimac67]

@@kkpenney444 By no means. The EU ist economically a true UNION. There are no trade barriers in between and mayority of EU has even one currency. The economic unification is lightyears ahead of any other kind of trade alliances in the world. You can't even make a trade treaty with one of the EU states, only with the EU as a whole. Trump wanted to make some trade deals with Germany and asked Merkel in some inteviews and she tried repeatedly to explain him that that won't work. Was very funny to see.

[@lucaiervasi8515]

@@Rorimac67 it is absolutely not true, every European country can make commercial agreements independently of the union with any state it wishes without talking to the European institutions. the european union is a set of commercial and economic agreements that concern only the member states and not completely, on the contrary .. in europe each state can use these agreements to take advantage of the other and the system itself generates a movement of capital from poor countries towards the rich countries. the united states of america is a true union, europe doesn't even come close to that concept.

[@RubenTandon]

I would like to know…why did you separate Prussia and the HRE?

[@Daadhiiwala]

Which tool you use to show bar char race?

[@Jorginhoflu1000]

1950's: "URSS will pass the USA" -Never happened 1980's-1990's:"Japan will pass the USA"-Never happened 2010's-2020's:"China will pass the USA"-?

[@Emilechen]

in 2020s, Chinese GDP has already passed the total sum of Russia+Japan+India+Australia all together,

[@leonflaithiuil6596]

Take away the petrodollar and stolen resources and see what happens to the US economy

[@frostdeeer]

@@leonflaithiuil6596 lol, and russia? They are still alive because of the resources and lands that they stole from little nations they conquered and abused for centuries. Take that away from russians, and they will be nothing.

[@vexversaa239]

@@leonflaithiuil6596 nah just take away its ability to sell arms and profit from war lmao.

[@lunelee6143]

America will be great again !

[@forest7570]

Заметьте, как выросла экономика США во время Первой и второй мировой войны. И как упали экономики других стран

[@amogussy_did_9.11]

It's nothing new here everybody knows that the US took advantage of the war to make money

[@cocktail2380]

Nu shto churban 🤣🤣🤣🤣 vasha ekonomika do six por ne rastyot .Rossiya i Putin kitayskiy vassal

[@forest7570]

@@cocktail2380 то есть Америка - Россия?) прикольно

[@BasicNoobs]

Is called Elizir. Some fall but some rise

[@user-lg9mr5jr8e]

И что?

[@BANDAL_justinno0112]

Joseon : hello 2sec later Joseon : Bye

[@RiannaRichardsOfficial]

❤❤❤Amazing how the U.S.A. came out of nowhere and became the world’s largest economy!❤️❤️❤️

[@paidoseufilho3699]

7:39 Época do "boom" das commodities. Se tivéssemos nos industrializado durante este período já teríamos superado grande parte das grandes potências ocidentais, ficaríamos atrás apenas da Alemanha e dos EUA.🇧🇷

[@fayero5]

Podéis ser prosperos aún debido a todos los recursos naturales de Brasil, solo os hace falta tener maquinas para procesarlos

[@WhenAllTheWarmthLeavesUs]

Pois é, aí elegeram o porra do 9 dedos... Parece até que brasileiro gosta de sofrer.

[@lanabjpj2488]

@Brazilian 🇧🇷 para de ser honesto cara kkkk

[@AmanVerma-qh9jv]

Same for India too. 🇮🇳

[@dionisioricardo]

Bem, não fomos o pior. A Venezuela cresceu mais que o Brasil neste período e o resultado foi ainda pior.

[@ebanydwayne1357]

Belgium wasn't independent on the late 18th century, it would be a lot more realistic if autonomous regions were tied to the home ruler, it's like saying Scotland has a total different GDP than the UK or Catalonia from Spain, or Texas to the US

[@thedukeofholland3926]

Same with Indonesia, got its independence in 1949

[@mint8648]

Just add its figure to the Habsburg Monarchy

[@nein236]

Its not really "Independent" they werent a country to begin with. They were created as some sort of buffer between germany and france.

[@nein236]

@@darius524 Ok then. Enlighten me.

[@Gustavo-su8se]

It would be very bad to understand if they also told the economy of the colonies and dominated countries. It is better to show only the economy of the territories as they are today.

[@ruisantos4520]

In this analysis ... Does China numbers includ Hong Kong and Taiwan ? If not where do HK and T stays ?? @ which position ?

[@supahsmashbro]

Probably includes both, definitely Hong Kong, there's no disputes there. But they wouldn't add so much anyway

[@domskillet5744]

*The US whenever Europe is at war: "Yeah, it's all coming together"

[@DenUitvreter]

Good times now.

[@Komnenos83]

Considering their difficult history, poland is doing pretty well. Hard working people!

[@everrettbreezewood3665]

Poland didn't even exist from 1795 until 1918. Why is it even on the map?

[@Memistical]

aaaand there goes Poland again

[@GhGh-sj4wb]

No

[@DavidCelestialKnight]

The Worst geography in the planet

[@JacekPlacek_0]

Poland shouldn't be in table between 1795-1918

[@tushargupta8820]

Countries go and comes but India and China still in top 10 massive respect to these two economic gaints and its people who never forgot their culture and moral values thats why these countries are still standing around and these countries are very old countries

[@pletskoo514]

India is old💀? the Indian subcontinent used to be a region with manyyy kingdoms and sultanates

[@Goofyderclown]

@@pletskoo514 so was europe. Prussia, AUSTRO HUNGARY, poland lithuania. China was rules by Mongols. Don't be jealous bro 🤫😂

[@pletskoo514]

@@Goofyderclown What's your point? What they said isn't true. What would I be jealous of?

[@user-jn3zs8yz9z]

@@Goofyderclown 中国历史上第一个黄帝就是游牧部落。所以我不知道你说的中国被蒙古统治是怎么回事？请记住中国是个帝国并不是欧洲普通国家，这个帝国存在的历史比古罗马更久远

[@skshivam300]

Population - Hold my beer!!

[@MacLevistein]

This was intense af

[@black_circle322]

7:36 This was mexico at its peak in power. I find it weird how mexico became the 8th richest country for a year.

[@FBI.capturo.gente.rara.]

In the thirteen colonies for a long time the reals of 8 were used since the English did not have enough ore to make enough coins for the settlers of the thirteen colonies

[@olddogoddments675]

Lack of coinage also led to a proliferation of paper money. Each colony issued its own "promises to pay", which got trusted to varying degrees. But without money flowing in other forms than precious metals they/the US could not have developed as they/it did.

[@Croatam31]

Wow, I didn't know Joseon was in gdp15th. Looking at this, Korea's plunge to the world's poorest countries and then rising back to the 13th to 10th volume of gdp just has found its place.

[@ashutoshyadav7385]

3:01 wow a company became the second largest economy, amazing!

[@IhaveBigFeet]

Impressive that Poland at one point was the 5th largest economy in the world (I’m not counting HRE as it was not a country)

[@matthew94pls]

I have a lot of fun watching this video. Especially when I saw how polish-lithuanian economy growth during the deluge xD.

[@Macion-sm2ui]

Same

[@dennisengelen2517]

So good that our tiny nation of Belgium was amongst all these great nations, especially since this list shows our country 58 years before it even existed. 😂

[@merodrem]

Don't trust this video. If you look at the dates, Belgium appears in the graph before it existed ( before 1830) haha

[@tibihunnia9775]

Belgian national HAHAHA not Vallon or Flamand nations as "Belgian"? Belgian Kongo was 15 million dead . Belgian imperialist colonist country, but not one nation.

[@SnipermanElite]

Because it's an estimation of the GDP of the area that is nowadays Belgium. Same happens with some other countries, like Italy which appears as "Italian States" whilst they were still separated nations.

[@irenaveksler1935]

@@lud2500 15 trillion people don’t live in the drc and never have I’m pretty sure it’s not 15 million dead either I think it was ten million

[@irenaveksler1935]

@@tibihunnia9775 bruh what?

[@K0ala_Bear]

What data was this animation based on? Because Poland did not exist between 1795 and 1918.

[@mahmudii2081]

Surprised that the Netherlands didn't shoot up to the top 3 because the VOC was the most profitable company in the world.

[@DenUitvreter]

Don't believe the stupid YT video's. The VOC was peanuts for the Dutch Republic's economy. Not even 1% of the merchant fleet and even at it's peak around 1650 less profitable than the Dutch herring fishery.

[@TheDenssdd]

US had a huge economic jump during two world wars

[@DiogoSilva-og7tc]

yup they didn't see any combat in their home soil and got filthy rich of selling weapons and supplies to the Europeans. Just to give you a prespective, I've seen the US being described as a floating factory that no one could touch during WW2.

[@lisaroberts8556]

It’s hard to bring War to the USA. A very large Continental Size Country. Rich in resources hardly any need for anything outside of its own borders. Two huge Oceans 🌊 🌊 on both sides. Land locked North and South with two peaceful but weaker nations. The only way to take the USA 🇺🇸 is from within. Guess who’s trying to pull that off? 😮

[@grimmsby3011]

@@DiogoSilva-og7tc With how friendly Canada is to the US and with Mexico's neutrality during the first war and support during the second, it basically turned the US into a continent-wide factory fortress. The idea of America remaining purely neutral throughout the wars is an interesting thought since the amount of supplies sent to Europe was insane.

[@crabisland2336]

1600년대 조선이 Top15 안에 들었던게 신기하네

[@robincrypto4748]

Germany : A High Stable Economy is vital for a prolonged W.. Others : prolonged what? Germany : Umm.. nothing

[@user-uk8dq4ls8o]

How was able france and other countries to compete economically with Spain? Spain was getting lots of income from it's territories in the Americas

[@ManuelMartinez-xy7hd]

Because much of America's money stayed in America. Or do you think the viceroyal cities arose without money? And because another large part of the money was spent on maintaining simultaneous wars against half the world in pursuit of the Catholic Church

[@windmill7708]

france was also getting alot of money from colonizing africa

[@Serious_Ludd]

Spain policy in the New World was very different than the one proposed by the French and the British. Unfortunately, Spain spendings were quite unefficient and they invested a lot, while harvesting not enough to compensate in return. French, and especially the British, had way more efficient taxing and investments policies

[@KeanoMUFC1]

I hope Poland will come back to the top 15 one day

[@_Polska_.]

Same (Wiem data)

[@AhmedBabiker-sr8fl]

​@michaelbrynkus nope top 15 country is twice their gdp

[@JoaquinWeissUgarteche]

When Argentina 🇦🇷 used to be a first world country 1880-1960. Nowadays RIP.

[@CorvusLeukos]

Hay que votar a Milei

[@jeremiasbelon6001]

@@CorvusLeukos nah

[@CorvusLeukos]

@@jeremiasbelon6001 seh

[@jeremiasbelon6001]

@@CorvusLeukos nah, liberalismo es como el abismo, prefiero a un capo de extrema derecha

[@gabriel-ni2jv]

Brasil💪😎terceiro pais com mais alemães germânicos do mundo🇩🇪

[@Knightfire66]

The videos $ sign from the Beginning was a foreshadowing for usa which wasnt on half of the video 😂

[@leonardosersanti]

how do you create this kind of video?

[@jayrayka1499]

India was a very fertile land from the beganing Hindustan Zindabad 🇮🇳

[@Its-darkdead6]

Muaryan,Gupta,Delhi Saltanate, Mughal

[@vitorpereira5461]

india has a bilion people friend.

[@tauslou5793]

Build more sewage treatment plants.

[@user-wh5se3cb2y]

Somewhere somewhen in 1600's: -What's our country's GDP? -Somewhere around 300mil of dollars -What's a dollar? -And what's GDP? -Dunno lol -The same. Kek

[@lawrence1135]

For more than 250 years, Great Ming lived up to its name....

[@funpoint376]

sad how the mughal empire was no. 1 for 30 years but still Indians hate this empire and even removed it from school textbooks

[@Jhonson-McLoyd01]

They can't digest reality

[@utkarshranjan]

Without mughals we were still the richest when there was time of Chandragupta maurya or ashoke we were the richest we were the richest in samudragupta’s time too mughals were invaders and they were just controlling the wealth what akhand bharat had

[@voniks3035]

Amazing that Polish GPD was bigger than Spain ones when Poland weren't even exist

[@TheKingOfSexyness]

Same with Belgium. It enters the top 15 in 1772 even though it was only founded in 1830.

[@GregoszPL]

Poland weren't exist? What do you mean? In that time Poland was in an Union together with Lithuania and was the biggest country in Europe (russia was nothing at that time). And it was also the next richest country in Europe, right after France(as you can see). Educate yourself than write comments;)

[@voniks3035]

@@GregoszPL Yeah but im talking about 1800s after partitons

[@GregoszPL]

@@voniks3035 ow yeaa, than you're right ser!

[@sdsdsdsd3369]

​​@@voniks3035 Poland was in personal union with Russia. They existed as Polish Kingdom with tsar as polish king.

[@midosch7639]

You totally skipped the German Kaiser Reich, Weimar republic and the Third Reich by just a calling it Germany after the Holy Roman Empire.

[@jonu28]

After the unification, they were basically the same country.

[@midosch7639]

@@jonu28 ok now I understand. The changes are not political but more geografical, thank you for explaining it to me.

[@reezlaw]

@@midosch7639 just look at pre-1861 Italy

[@rudolph1074]

where did you get your information from ?

[@Its-darkdead6]

Angus Medison ReSearch

[@IndianCitizen777]

Oooh that smooth jump of India from 2014 to 2022 to top 4