Richest Countries in the World 1500-2022 | GDP PPP per Capita

In this video we compare the richest countries by GDP PPP per capita from 1500 to 2022.
It includes kingdoms, empires, republics, federations, states and autonomous regions.
This video will take you through a historical journey where you will witness the rise and fall of different empires and economies while passing through key historical events, such as the Great Depression, WW1, WW2, Cold War, and many other events that shaped our world today.
Source: Angus Maddison Project - The World Economy: Historical Statistics.
World Bank, IMF, UN, Louis Johnston and Samuel H.Williamson, SCMP, CNBC,
St.Louis Fed.
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Countries included in the video:
Republic of Venice, Habsburg Netherlands, Holy Roman Empire, Kalmar Union, Kingdom of England, Kingdom of France, Habsburg Spain, Ming Dynasty, Mamluk Egypt, Kingdom of Poland, Ottoman Empire, Egypt Eyalet, Kingdom of Sweden, Denmark-Norway, Kingdom of Portugal, New Spain, Poland-Lithuania, Dutch Republic, Mughal Empire, Tokugawa Shogunate, Viceroyalty of Peru, Kingdom of Portugal, Qing Dynasty, Maratha Empire, Dutch Cape Colony, Great Britain, United States, French First Republic, Argentina, United Kingdom, French Empire, Prussia, Cape Colony, Netherlands, Uruguay, Sweden-Norway, Denmark, France, German Confederation, Two Sicilies, Austrian Empire, Canada, Ireland, Hong Kong, Venezuela, Belgium, Greece, Australia, New Zealand, Switzerland, Kingdom of Italy, Austria-Hungary, German Empire, Chile, Sweden, Norway, Weimar Republic, Estonia, Austria, Nazi Germany, Finland, Japan, France, Italy, West Germany, Qatar, Kuwait, Emirates, Luxembourg, Iceland, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Libya, Bahrain, Monaco, Oman, Liechtenstein, Bahamas, Singapore, Aruba, Germany, San Marino, Macau, Andorra, Bermuda, Brunei, Taiwan.
WW1, WW2

[@Karinna360]

I am uruguayan. I didn't know that Uruguay did so well for sooo many years. The world change so much from one decade to another one.

[@gatokoro]

De hecho aunque ahora no es nada a como era antes Uruguay sigue bastante bien en comparación a otros países latinoamericanos, tiene un buen pib percapita

[@valeriocatellan]

Isso explica porque Uruguai e Argentina tem mais copa América que o Brasil. Tinham mais dinheiro, investiam mais em esporte

[@valeriocatellan]

Agora que o Brasil se tornou um país mais ou menos a tendência é que ultrapasse Uruguai e Argentina.

[@badcornflakes6374]

Does everyone in Uruguay look similar or they have diversity? This important question

[@Karinna360]

@@badcornflakes6374 we don't have much diversity, we mostly look like a mix of italian and spanish, due to the high volume of inmigration in the fist half of 20th century.

[@mcf-662]

The Republic of Venice was kicking asses for centuries but that's kind of known. I'm more bewildered by how unfairly Sicily is portrayed nowadays as I had no clue how powerful it has been for centuries.

[@Ahab71290]

How is it portrayed nowadays exactly? 😅

[@mcf-662]

@@Ahab71290 would you have guessed it was the richest country in the world for centuries?

[@Ahab71290]

@@mcf-662 not sure if that’s exactly what the graph said but yeah, I studied history in Italy and the kingdom of Sicily plays a huge role. My question was around what you thought the perception is when you say “unfairly portrayed”

[@mcf-662]

@@Ahab71290 it's always portrayed as an underdeveloped place and mainly associated to the Mafia. You certainly have a deeper knowledge but to the average person Sicily doesn't symbolize a historically wealthy location with a rich history cause certainly it was never portrayed as such in movies and media. They both have a major role in creating an image of a nation in the eyes of the general public.

[@Ahab71290]

@@mcf-662 whilst nobody can argue that Sicily simply lost the power and authority it once had, to think that Sicily is historically insignificant it’s pure and simple ignorance. Don’t believe the ignorants 🤘🏻

[@sim6159]

If you read all the data, you can see a few big trends - first trade: the Dutch republic was on top for centuries. Then the industrial revolution came, the UK and the USA where on top, then oil was found in the middle east and the Arab nations where on top, and after that you got tax havens where the super rich would go to, to not pay any taxes.

[@AntoBlo]

Not necessarily tax heavens, but businesses friendly jurisdictions in general, which includes but is not limited to tax heavens.

[@notnek202]

@@AntoBloNo tax havens

[@stephm4047]

@@AntoBlo There is literally NO business in Monaco, Lichtenstein, Luxembourg, Singapore, Macau or Bermuda, except "tax optimization financial services", brand licensing and patents management and gaming. Which are all more or less related to money laundry. Basically white collar crooks

[@stephm4047]

Yep, Venice first with the trade in the mediterranean and then the Dutch with the trade in the atlantic and the pacific.

[@tvantklooster]

​@@stephm4047don't forget the baltic region. The Dutch Republic made alot of money buying and selling grain from the Baltics during the 17th and 18th century.

[@tytoalba4794]

Ahh yes the time when Southern Italy was richer

[@alisgrin2524]

Imperio Español...

[@cattysplat]

Wait till you hear about the Roman Empire...

[@dragi8892]

The North was rich because they created commercial kingdoms at the beginning and then it took several centuries for the North to be filled with industries.

[@dragi8892]

Yes, the south was also very rich because it was very strategic, but I think it depended on certain kingdoms that's why it became rich, although it cost it very expensive.

[@AdikenStan]

@@dragi8892 also centered in one of the best trade areas for the time they could reach many wealthy European, African, and west Asian countries to trade with ease since they are centered in the Mediterranean. Its very interesting.

[@ServantJoe]

Spain was richer than all of the others from the 1500 to 1700 hundreds. It does not show here because the video has Spain divided in 3 or four divisions.

[@JoseGarcia-uc8qs]

Same with UK. NZ and Aus belonged to it. Not a great representation

[@pollutingpenguin2146]

It’s quite impressive that a small country like Denmark, without any natural resources or tax havens has managed to be in the top 10 richest countries in the world for over 500 years.

[@LUNE.44]

"small country" it controls greenland so its larger than india

[@pollutingpenguin2146]

@@LUNE.44 Greenland is a block of ice and even to this day, it doesn’t make financial sense to mine or drill for oil and gas. So the island is pretty much untouched and is costing Denmark 300mil USD a year. Also - Greenland is self governed - it is not like Denmark can do with it as they please.

[@corne1717]

Maybe you missed the Netherlands that is even more densily popupated and far above Denmark the whole video...

[@pollutingpenguin2146]

@@corne1717 no, the Netherlands is not richer than Denmark. And the Netherlands is a tax haven.

[@corne1717]

@@pollutingpenguin2146 So you deny that according to this video the Netherlands was wealthier than Denmark for 480 of the last 500 years? And if we are a tax haven, then can you tell me how much we earn with it? And with which tax are we a haven? I believe we have just 20% dividend tax which is average in Europe. Ireland is a tax haven and that is why their economy suddenly doubled in the last 5 years. Don't forget that it was the Netherlands who saved Denmark against Sweden in 1658 in the second northern war when the Swedish troops had conquered all of Denmark and were besieging Copenhagen.

[@danielcreatd872]

An inportant fact to note, especially with older data, is that a significant part of a nations production used to consist of peasants producing goods for their own consumption which isn't calculated in the stastics.

[@smb123211]

That's like saying India is an agricultural giant because they produce slightly more food than the US....until you notice that the US has about a million farmers and India has 600 million. LOL

[@ajaysabarish9645]

America is more industrialized and india is just coming out of colonial oppression. During Mughal era India contributed 25% of worlds industrial export.

[@smb123211]

@@ajaysabarish9645 OK but so? The US had the same percent in agriculture in 1850. It's not industrialization per se but not accepting that large industrial farms are more efficient, productive and profitable. Good luck

[@carstengrooten3686]

​@@smb123211then they still are an agricultural giant...

[@smb123211]

@@carstengrooten3686 They are like China - output comes from numbers, not productivity. The point is that by devoting so many resources to agriculture India can't devote resources to other fields that create capital and increase societal knowledge. Modern civilization is really specialization - people learning a task more efficiently and productive. I worked with Indian guys (I was a consultant) and they were great but only a tiny sliver of what is needed.

[@petercriscuola]

Im from argentina. We were rich, now we are trash. Its sad to see what politicians have done to our countru.

[@corne1717]

The clear winner of this video is the Netherlands. They have been on top for 220 years. For another 200 years they have been in the top 3 and 60 years in the top 10. They have been out of the top 10 just for 20 years at the end but that is just because of the small city states. Even the UK and venice couldnt come close to these numbers. A wonderful result for the Dutch.

[@mobo1014]

Thx im dutch

[@younglord7805]

@@anandapangestu6400 not really. Dutch colonies only played a role for maybe like a century. And those colonies were most of a drag than help for the Dutch. Greetings from Asia to Dutch!

[@tijmen5355]

All states around #1 were assholes. US, qatar, dutch empire. Shows you can only be rich by taking advantage of poorer nations. Colonization, war, oil ecta

[@agungprasetyo292]

I am from indonesia. Dutch became rich because dutch invate my country. So sad.....

[@corne1717]

@@agungprasetyo292 That is actually wrong and an often misunderstood part of the Dutch history. As you can see in this video the Netherlands were already in the top 3 wealthiest countries in the world even before they started to colonize other regions in the world. That is because of their trade with north eastern europe through the east sea that lies between scandinavia and poland. That actually made the Netherlands rich and even later in the time of the VOC and the colonization of Indonesia the trade with the east sea was still good for 80% of the total wealth of the dutch republic. The part of colonization just accounted for 10 to 20% or so. Actually colonization didnt make europe rich at all. It only brought a lot of suffering to the colonized people without much benefits. A country like Germany or Austria which hadnt much colonies were almost as wealthy as countries like the UK and France that had a lot of colonies.

[@cssaf]

It's interesting how New Spain (Mexico) was always at the top as a Spanish colony, even higher than Spain sometimes

[@samb1123]

Not that any of her people Native or most whites got benefit of it. It was mostly in the looted gold.

[@cssaf]

@@samb1123 80% of the gold was invested there, the crown just picked the 20% for taxes to pay the wars in Europe (a bad decission in my opinion)

[@arthurhugo385]

Same way did Argentina and Venezuela

[@Dragoon77]

@@arthurhugo385 I’m surprised at Argentina and Venezuela just after independence war. It was a time of civil wars

[@badcornflakes6374]

Interesting now I'm sure Mexico is still higher than Spain if you get the collective money of all the cartels together. Spain has not been anywhere near it's former glory for a very, very long time.. Same was with China, but they finally found their groove again.

[@singingsoul795]

Maratha Empire ❤️ 1674-1807 ❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@skywave9397]

Chatrapati Shivaji Maharaj ki jay🚩🚩

[@wernervon5508]

Yeah, awesome times!

[@somangovdoctor]

Mughal empire♥️♥️🔥🔥🔥

[@mathskafunda4383]

@@somangovdoctor Lol, Marathas Crushed pisslims from India.

[@pramodgurjar7053]

@@somangovdoctor ganta chutiya looters

[@grigri555]

Теперь любой идиот может делать какие угодно топы на ютьюб, а безграмотный народ будет верить.

[@ManuelantonioHernández-h4q]

Важно брать источники, но в целом мне это показалось правильным, полагаю, я взял данные у Ангуса Мэддисона для подсчета населения до 1800 года, а также экономические данные.

[@padredemishijos12]

Kingdom of Spain, New Spain, and Viceroyalty of Peru were one country all subjects of the King of Spain.

[@dragi8892]

surprising how wealth is measured.

[@alexandracruz5243]

My country Venezuela was one of the richest in the world. So sad what's happening now 😢

[@rickrandom6734]

You should hire Norwegians to run your countrys economy.

[@niedrichFrietzsche]

That's true! Wish you guys the best from Germany 🙏🏼

[@janhansen554]

Norway is following Venezuela steps now. All rich is moving out of the country

[@alexandracruz5243]

@@niedrichFrietzsche Thank you! I live in Germany since 10 years 🙂 It's my new home.

[@alexandracruz5243]

@@janhansen554 Really? 😲😲😲

[@andrewjordan4193]

I had no idea that the Kingdom of Sicily (later the Two Sicilies) had such high per capita income for much of the eighteenth century and part of the nineteenth. Italian unification seems to have been a bit of a downer. Can anyone explain this for me?

[@celtic-charlesmartel1660]

Oui Naples fut la 3e ville d’Europe après Londres et Paris au 18ème et début 19e siècle et aujourd’hui c’est la 3e ville d’Italie

[@maxstirner7566]

Political centralization destroyed competition between states. When competition is removed then quality of laws will degrade. It has then negative impact on productivity, inovation and freedom. The same fate awaits the EU.

[@rna8arnold]

Simple trade with the Far East.... think of Marco Polo...who was a Venician merchant.

[@andrewjordan4193]

@@rna8arnold Indeed; though when Marco Polo lived (in the 13th Century) Venice prospered on the basis of the silk road trade route. I suppose Naples and other places then benefited as other trade routes to the east opened up (as you indicate). I know that by the eighteenth century Venice was in serious decline due to the move away to different routes over the past couple of centuries..

[@xochitlxochipa4965]

In one Word "Spain" is the answer. As a part of the spanish monarchy they we're rich. After italian unification they became the poorest of the poor. And then the Maffia enters ...

[@frockon9542]

at some point the dutch were so rich, that they started competing with themselves lol

[@fjcg9821]

I wish the video would have made more clear that so many of these territories were part of the Spanish empire, at some points of the video even 4-5 out of the 15 were Spanish territories… apart from that very cool video!

[@HolyRomanEmpireMapping]

Well it's amazing to see that Maratha Empire despite having a Population of More Than 150 Million People (Even more than the Population of Modern day Russia), was the 12th Richest nation entity in the world in 1750s in terms of Per Capita Income, having more Per Capita than Poland and China and was comparable to Denmark. It's Crazy to think that India and Denmark used to have similar Per Capita income, But now Denmark has a per capita which is nearly 15 Times that of India. If British Colonization might not had happened, India under Maratha Empire could have expanded more and could have undergone Industrialization and could had been a global economic superpower and the Empire could had been survived atleast till 1920s. But that never happened.😢

[@Myname-wh5yu]

Per capita income in kingdoms is difficult for compare since most of the wealth was concentrated with the monarchy especially before the industrial age. This is why smaller countries with rich monarchy had a high per capita. Even absolute monarchies have the same issue today

[@Meyers1793]

There is a different metric for measure income equity, its called the GINI coefficient

[@rickrandom6734]

Monarchs money is made by people who work for him.

[@mikatu]

This is called gross domestic PRODUCT, as in production, not wealth owned per capita!

[@hengzhou4566]

Should calculate the "majority", i.e., remove 10% richest and 10% poorest.

[@leosv0]

This is not wealth, but current production.

[@leyoshivenere350]

Ireland going from 50k to 100k in just 10 years is crazy

[@RS_Redbaron]

Thats called a tax haven trick learned from the Dutch ;)

[@DublinMarc]

​@RS_Redbaron can't you b think of something more intelligent to say? Our economy is strong and vibrant. If you can't compete on taxes lower your taxes.

[@Benji567891]

@@DublinMarc EU law prevents certain countries from lowering taxes, the EU allows certain regions to do it aka Ireland, Poland, basicaly they want to give certain economies a boost but other regions suffer because of it, it's one of major reasons certain people in power pushed for brexit, and actually a good reasons for it out of all the nonsense reasons.

[@behemoth8399]

It takes the money from wealth created all over Europe

[@i1pro]

They separated Spain, New Spain and Perú... The chart would look different if they were together as they were initially.

[@widyadwi321]

Indonesian: those are some good spice huh? Dutch: yes!!! Yes indeed!!!

[@Paysoncougarfan.7885]

Per capita is very deceiving with small populations .Additionally, select individuals of small countries may be controlling all of the wealth. Total GDP output of Nations would be a much more realistic view of the world.

[@timowayne6993]

I agree they shouldn't include tax heavens such as Monaco, Luxembourg and Liechtenstein.

[@Unknown-jt1jo]

It depends what you're interested in. China has the world's largest economy by PPP, but on a per-capita basis it's just a middle-income country. So total GDP wouldn't tell you how well-off its citizens are.

[@DenUitvreter]

The Dutch Republic was by far the most egalitarian power in the 17th century, the first big spending middle class in history basically. They were the first modern capitalists and very ordinary people owned shares as well as paintings.

[@ramesesrommella.macatol1247]

HDI is a much better measure of wealth as it is an aggregate of various socio-economic metrics.

[@stizan9185]

What, per capita is not 100 accurate but Total gdp is way worse, since then its all about population number

[@bouzdesigns]

I like how Arab countries came out of nowhere

[@dennisengelen2517]

I pray for the day we become independent from fossil fuels, these barbaric nations will sink faster than the Titanic once that day arrives. Such barbarians who defile human rights should never have this much power.

[@bouzdesigns]

@@dennisengelen2517 little jealous white kid

[@7katter]

@@dennisengelen2517 🙏

[@justblaze7924]

@@dennisengelen2517 barbaric like western countries including your tiny weak country Belgium supporting Israel that kills Palestinians and stole their land

[@silentboomber]

@@dennisengelen2517 no worry, soon to be

[@chrisconnell8464]

Ireland the last 10 years is the biggest surprise on this list! Especially over Norway and Switzerland. I'm also surprised that Sweden's not there.

[@pdfads]

Ireland is a corporate tax haven. Almost all of Apple's money is supposedly made there.

[@usefulrandom1855]

Yeah a lot of investment vehicles are domiciled in Ireland take Vangaurds funds for example VUSA S&P 500 fund.

[@SvenElven]

The problem with Ireland's newfound wealth is that little of it comes back to benefit the citizens.

[@spaniardsrmoors6817]

These stats favor small countries and are exaggerated/BS. Ireland-tax haven, 10% wealthy to rich, 90% middle class to poor.

[@shanoncorrey9047]

habsburg Netherlands, Kingdom of Sicily, new Spain, Argentina, viceroyalty of Peru was part of Spain. Take a book

[@pepitaaralartxope2304]

And 60 years Spain and Portugal were united, it isn't showed in this bad video

[@shanoncorrey9047]

@@pepitaaralartxope2304 And ruled by the spanish king Felipe II

[@peterdevalk7929]

Only for a relative short time. Not even 80 years. LMFAO.

[@pepitaaralartxope2304]

@@shanoncorrey9047 Not spanish king, he had differents countries. He was the Catholic King, Spain wasn't exist

[@shanoncorrey9047]

@@pepitaaralartxope2304 the beginning of Spain was at the end of the 15th century with the Catholic Monarchs

[@HolyRomanEmpireMapping]

It's Crazy to think Maratha Empire despite having more than 150 Million People still managed to be the 11th Richest Nation state in the world in terms of Per Capita income even richer than Polish Liuthanian Union and Kingdom of Denmark.

[@antoniominissale7041]

Sicily was very rich for centuries

[@Unknown-jt1jo]

The Kingdom of Sicily, which also includes Naples and southern Italy. I'm not sure the island of Sicily itself was that wealthy.

[@TheAntonioze96]

@@Unknown-jt1jocerto che lo era

[@joerosa2532]

It refers to the Regno delle due Sicilie, which was Sicily and most of southern Italy, just south of Rome.

[@giuliolupo1]

​@@TheAntonioze96il dato è riferito al GDP pro capite e non a quello globale quindi tutto può essere. Però poi quando passa da Kingdom of Sicily a Two Sicily il dato resta invariato quindi si presume che sia sempre stato considerato tutto assieme.

[@DM-hl3bx]

Crazy how things change with the oil and gas boom.

[@HolyRomanEmpireMapping]

It's Crazy to think that at once, India(as Maratha Empire) had even larger Per Capita income that of Japan, Poland, China, Russia and was even comparable to Denmark in 1752 despite having a Population of more than 150 Million People, But now all of these countries are 5 to 10 times richer than India. Infact Once India was richer than Poland, but now Poland is 10 Times richer than Poland.

[@solomonokoli212]

It's interesting how the Ottoman empire and their vassal Egypt used to be quite wealthy in the 1500s -1600s. If only they had industrialized during the same period as Europe.

[@indiekiddrugpatrol3117]

Is there a reason why no Muslim nations industrialised during the 1800s? Before the industrial revolution Arabs and Turks had been at the forefront of technological development competing with the Italians, Germans and English

[@coenkloppert]

@@indiekiddrugpatrol3117 Mostly because the Ottoman empire was not in a good place politically: systematic corruption, civil unrest and ethnic tensions. Make no mistake the Ottomans did in fact industrialise its just that they did not invest as much as other European powers and they had a crippling state debt.

[@shafuimcoming5151]

@@indiekiddrugpatrol3117 at that time(1800s and 1900s) European did far better than Arab and Turk. So, eventually they lag behind.

[@mmmcounts]

Muslim decision makers rejected the printing press and this resulted in a long standing trend of relatively low literacy rates. Of course this had an effect on education, wealth, and general well being. Some of these countries didn't even clear the mark of 50% literacy until well until the 20th century while the more prosperous countries had literacy rates at or near 100% going back at least a couple of centuries.

[@pankaja7974]

they read only only the one kutab no ?

[@DaniDani-ro7fy]

Porque separais al reino de España del virreinato de Nueva España? No es correcto.

[@eduzz4655]

Imagine if you unify the Spanish territories in this video and not showing it separately as you do...

[@alexzgz100]

You must report this video . This video is a mistake .

[@lordofthemound3890]

It’s per capita.

[@emmanuelledavidnorwoodmira8198]

It's not a simple sum, because the video shows the GDP per capita, not the GDP

[@jakebhenry2228]

It would actually probably be pretty bad relative to other members of the lost: 3-4% inflation was devastating, the pricing on gold and silver collapsed due to overselling it, and the bankruptcies of 1597 and 1603 left the financials of the empire shattered as a whole.

[@falmenara]

New Spain and the Kingdom of Spain where the same. The laws, power and army where under the rules of the Kingdom of Spain. They should be added up.

[@Floren_Andro]

Does it really have to fragment the Spanish empire into 6627 territories (Dutch Absburgo, Spain Absburgo, Sicily, Viceroyalty of Peru, Viceroyalty of Mexico... etc) so that it never appears in first position?

[@dmitripogosian5084]

Well, GDP per person is not additive, so splitting may actually have helped to put few parts of Spain onto the list

[@edwardburroughs1489]

It would never have appeared in 1st position anyway.

[@Floren_Andro]

@@edwardburroughs1489 It's clear that mathematics is not your thing.

[@leon-ly6of]

​@@Floren_Andro lol, looks like you don't understand how GDP per capita works.

[@Floren_Andro]

@@leon-ly6of And you don't seem to understand that those territories were not "from Spain"... "They were Spain"...

[@corne1717]

Netherlands on top, Netherlands on top, Dutch cape colony on top 👀

[@louern123]

THE music sync is amazing 🎉

[@Cringy_avocado]

3:11 damn why is this song so fire

[@ichbinmartin]

nice to see how stabile was the economy before banking system and inflation.

[@dmitripogosian5084]

Meaning before paper money

[@bluemoonflame342]

This really showcases how much of an impact the two World Wars had on the US economy.

[@TiestoCalvinHarris]

1951 Qatar , Kuwait,UAE show up

[@cooldaddy2877]

Had a much bigger effect on the British economy which didnt start to get better until the 80s.

[@fernandogutierrez4429]

The fact that the Spanish Empire appears broken up is not the reason Spain doesn't occupy the top of the list. The graph shows GDP per Capita, so the global Spanish ranking would be an average of the parts (weighed). I rather it this way, so you can see how balanced the wealth was in the Empire.

[@SpewPuke]

Then do the same with England

[@dragi8892]

Remember that in those times wealth is measured differently.

[@ChrisCrossClash]

@@SpewPuke It was done like that.

[@ИльяСтарцев-у5г]

вообще интересный факт, что Россия НИКОГДА не была в топ-10 по ВВП на душу населения, включая период СССР. а вот Эстония была) So, Russia NEVER was in top-10 GDP per Capita, include USSR times, and Estonia was. Amazing.

[@kanalWPS]

For russian its surprise that Estonia was rich before occupation. In russian history books you can read that they gave toi estonians alphabet (i wonder why they gave nemetskie bukvi) and estonians lived in caves

[@АлександрЩеглов-е7г]

И вы этой хрене верите ?

[@Jun_e]

​@@АлександрЩеглов-е7г 😂😂😂

[@seitjanoc]

Индия (Mughal empire) в 1600-х была в топ 10, а сейчас бедна Индия, Китай тоже успел побыть в топе.Хотя население огромное у них.Россия хоть и была в топ 10 по обычному ВВП, но никогда не была в топе на душу населения, даже в самые пиковые периоды. У СССР было население 200 млн в последний период Сталинского правления, в то время как у Западной Германии (разделенной) ВВП было почти на равне с СССР, но население Западной Германии 50 млн, а на душу населения ВВП в 3 раза больше.

[@seitjanoc]

Эстония самая богатая в плане ВВП на душу населения страна по сравнению с другими постсоветскими странами.В 1930-х вообще была богатой

[@LukeGale-w8m]

Whilst we all celebrate our countries being high on the list, GDP has actually been shown to be inversely proportional to happiness. In recent times at least.

[@fracassonel9032]

Lo de venecia es extraordinario....durante 1000 años fueron una de las mayores potencias maritimas y comerciales del mundo con un territorio tan pequeño y solo 200.000 hbs.....y ademas enfrentando a paises e imperios gigantescos como los bizantinos, turcos, franceses, aragoneses, españoles, magrebies etc...ademas de sus propios enemigos en italia....

[@alicaramba7680]

Doubtful Venice was so rich but Florence, Papal States and Milan nowhere to be seen.

[@alexos8741]

Venecia era la corea del norte de la época en asuntos políticos. Económicamente eran eficaces porque obligaban a su nobleza (los únicos ricos y políticamente poderosos en la ciudad) a hacer lo que el estado quería, y no podían negarse. También habría que decir que Venecia no era sólo Venecia, tenían un imperio de islas (colonias) a través del Mediterráneo oriental, lo que hacía que su población fuese mayor que la de las ciudad, aunque era practicam imposible que alguien que no tuviera sangre veneciana fuera ciudadano.

[@buckoleon]

Los aragoneses eran españoles

[@txitxarroleon]

​@@buckoleondéjalo, yo estoy leyendo comentarios por que al ver los videos de esta gente me saltaban al ojo muchas cosas, y te das cuenta de la ignorancia total en la que vive la gente.

[@user-glg20]

Impressive that in period of 1500-1750 there is almost no inflation

[@ricgunn1439]

And no paper money

[@defendfreedom1390]

@@ricgunn1439 And no central banks, except maybe in the UK and Netherlands.

[@alisgrin2524]

​@@defendfreedom1390 Mmmm... Tal vez sea por eso... 🤔🤔

[@DenUitvreter]

Central banking in the Dutch Republic was to increase confidence in money for the sake of the economy, not for stealing by printing extra money yet. Cutting coins and counterfitting were heavily punished, so there was a morale. Corruption of that took a while.

[@MrTubegato]

⚠️It is shameful. Why do you split the Spanish viceroyalties to divide the richness, but you don’t split the French or English colonies? So, that way France or England become richer than they truly were; and, in fact, France or England had colonies, which didn’t concede rights or citizenship, while the Spanish viceroyalties were provinces, part of the state, with fully investments by the Spanish crown (4/5 parts of the gold and silver remained in America) and with citizenship and full rights to the Spanish Americans, because all Hispanics were equal Spaniards. Why do you split a State (Spain [Las Españas]), but not the colonies of some other Europeans states? And, why you don’t include Portugal, Sicily, The Habsburg Netherlands to the Spanish Habsburg Dinasty in those moments when they were together? And, how can you measure richness? You put England on top of the list even before Elizabeth I created the protective laws for creating inner industries as the Dutch did, so, the list doesn’t reflect the previous poverty in England. And, how do you measure richness through commerce? Because New Spain was the key to the global commerce during 3 centuries , because it controlled the international currency, the Spanish Real de a Ocho or Spanish Dollar, and the international commerce with Asia, between China and The Philippines and Europe through Seville, so, I think this video is wrong. In words of the Morning Post of London, or Von Humboldt, there were many more infrastructures in New Spain and such an enormous difference in quality of life (in favor to New Spain, or the Peru) if compared with Europe, and that’s why many European countries tried once again and again, always failing, to appropriate of Hispanic America. Even the Morning Post of London is famous for having said: “New Spain is the golden as on Earth”. I see many failures here.

[@useringeneral]

Portugal income/treasury was still separate from Spain's Was an Union, not a province, territory See coat of arms

[@ChrisCrossClash]

Because Spain was a nothing nation after 1755 that's why. 😂😂

[@constancerijsdijk9332]

Adding the Spanish viceroyalties etc. to Spain doesn't raise the GDP *per capita*, as you also have to add the populations of those viceroyalties. On the whole, the average will remain the same. Adding them only helps to raise the overall GDP, but that isn't what this video is about. And the English colonies are split - or did you think Australia, and New Zealand were independent countries during the second half of the 19th century?

[@magic77wand]

It's all oil-rich countries and tax havens these days

[@mykey49]

0:01 Mansa Musa's Mali empire has to be there.

[@artfquinn]

There are only six non-city countries in the top 15 list in 2022. Besides USA, they are Ireland (5 million population), Norway (5 million), Switzerland (8 million), UAE (10 million) and Taiwan (23 million).

[@raffiking1]

Are the UAE, Switzerland, Liechtenstein and Luxembourg all considered to be city countries?

[@smilesmite6682]

Yes if you discount UAE, Switzerland, Qatar, Brunei, Luxembourg, and Liechtenstein. (You’re wrong)

[@artfquinn]

@@smilesmite6682 I I am adding UAE and Switzerland to the list. I still think Qatar, Brunei, Luxembourg, and Liechtenstein are too small, belong to city country category.

[@smilesmite6682]

@@artfquinn they arent city states though by definition. They are small but all have rural areas outside the main city. For example Qatar has many km of desert outside Doha and many islands too. Brunei has rainforests and even other towns outside the capital.

[@yanglee1404]

UAE has population less than ten million. The top three with population bigger than 10 million are USA, Taiwan and the Netherlands.

[@vogliousareilmionome]

Venice a little city with some colonies was richer than Kingdoms and Empires, cool!

[@HJs198]

its based on gdp per capita thats so why

[@joerosa2532]

Have you ever visited Venice? If you take one look at the real estate in that city, you can realize in an instant how wealthy they were.

[@rafaels4526]

El reino de Sicilia era parte del Imperio Español al igual que Ducado De Milán...dos declas zonas mas ricas de Europa junto a las Paise Bajos Españoles (Bélgica)También parte del Imperio Español 😊

[@Myname-wh5yu]

It would be interesting to see smaller kingdoms in Asia as well. like we would see in Europe. For example the kingdom of Mysore had a higher per capita income from the average.

[@oxy2986]

Before 1500 ad , if we look at 8th century to 11th century chola nailed it there . They where richest empire in this periode of time and i can imagine there per capita because the empire has made phenomenal job in making structures in south india and SE ASIA. They would easily top 60% of trade they managed.

[@soldierdad990206]

I had no idea that for a while in the late 1800s Australia was the richest country

[@cattysplat]

Old king coal. Powered the world steam and electricity for over 100 years.

[@thesandsswimwearmodelling6835]

GDP per capita is a flow variable and is therefore not a measure for how rich or wealthy a country is. It just shows how productive the country is in terms of producing goods and services. While there is some correlation between the two, better indicators are mean and median household wealth.

[@anastasy2]

Yes, we all know that Monaco, Liechtenstein and Luxembourg are all very "productive" countries... 😆

[@naturetruth5218]

PPP means to take into consideration of purchasing power. If you earned $2k in US, you are likely homeless sleeping in car. If you earned that in China, you are middle income enjoying life. In India and Africa, you live like Raj.

[@firstlast9916]

Qatar: yah, somebody discover oil in my back yard! Since it my back yard, it’s mine right? Yayyyyy

[@kekeke8988]

@@anastasy2 Except they don't produce anything, do they? They're literally microstates.

[@TiestoCalvinHarris]

Every country is different, value of life is different too

[@alejomanuelguerrero9326]

Why did you divide the Hispanic Monarchy into the kingdom of Spain, Sicily, New Spain and Perú. Maybe because it would have been number one or two until 1808?

[@danielgiron6]

Because each viceroyalty was kinda autonomous

[@Dragoon77]

It’s per capita, it wouldn’t go up if you joined it

[@agustincervantes498]

​@@Dragoon77In this case the United Kingdom should not be at the top, the majority of the British Empire was poor and starving.

[@AndySaenz]

WOW, it’s impressive how Qatar and Kuwait literally exploded to the top in 1950! Those oil rich countries are killing it!

[@nimrod06]

Takeaway: after the WWs, you either have a huge oil reserve or be a tiny state.

[@magnum6635]

Who did this calculation ? it's nonsense, Egypt was a province that belonged to the Ottoman Empire so if in calculation the income of Egypt which is 16.60 which goes directly into the Ottoman treasury which had 13.20 then the true calculated for the Ottoman Empire is 29.8, Egypt was not a country in 1500, big mistake, delete the video and redo one, you are good for nothing.

[@kizilhan6178]

Nice work. Why did you put Egypt on the list after 1517 separately from the Ottoman Empire btw?

[@WadRas55]

The same for Spain, Netherland Spain and Sicily Spain. In this era all this "countries" was part of Spanish Empire.

[@kizilhan6178]

@@WadRas55 The countries you are talking about are colonies of Spain, but since 1517 Egypt was under Ottoman rule. Consider that even after Castile conquered Aragon, the two economies were calculated under different headings.

[@11th_defender51]

@@kizilhan6178 but Egypt was more independent, they did whatever they wanted.

[@alisgrin2524]

​@@kizilhan6178 Castilla no conquistó Aragón, fue una unión dinástica

[@alisgrin2524]

​@@WadRas55 España no tenía colonias, eran reinos y virreinatos, los Países Bajos por herencia de la abuela del emperador Carlos V

[@willhovell9019]

Per capita wealth means nothing. At Britain's richest prak in 1914 in Britain and Ireland, there was some of the worst urban poverty in the Western world

[@ademsoylu6971]

Egypt then was a part of Ottoman Empire

[@dragi8892]

What a shame Argentinian and Venezuelan 😢

[@SurrealDreamscapes]

🇺🇾 Uruguay, the Switzerland of America

[@fcoruiz8818]

Pasito a pasito hasta poner en la cima a casi todos los paraísos fiscales.

[@Mikikat0o]

From the start to the 1750s it was an 1v1 between Sicily and The Netherlands

[@axwleurope9519]

Because he doesn't show the Spanish Empire as an Union. Even the Netherlands was Spanish

[@peterdevalk7929]

@@axwleurope9519 BS! Learn history and not from the Spanish history books. LMFAO!

[@peterdevalk7929]

From 1590 to 1750 it was the Netherlands only.

[@alisgrin2524]

Sicilia fue parte del Imperio Español desde 1516 hasta 1713

[@DenUitvreter]

@@axwleurope9519 Only for a few decades and then the Northern Netherlands had had enough of those Medieval Spanish with their inquisition and feudal practices. The remaining Spanish Netherlands, today's Belgium, became irrelevant quickly.

[@liamartinproductions]

It's actually amazing how high the usa for a large country

[@artistic_balkan.collection]

VENEZIA ❤

[@egraphs]

Happy te see Ireland in the top 6 ✌🏻👍🏻👍🏻

[@samfrost9957]

Yeah. Stealing the money from other countries taxes

[@ScepticalSkeptic]

@@samfrost9957 For centuries, Ireland was stolen from.

[@samfrost9957]

@@ScepticalSkepticBy the British, Not from the rest of the world. Ask money to the Brits

[@risinggael1685]

​@@samfrost9957what are you on about...

[@samfrost9957]

@@risinggael1685 Tax Haven. That's it.

[@nixxxon18]

Its hard to believe Spain wasn't the richest in 1500-1600, they had tons of gold and other materials coming from the Americas

[@albertoht5753]

There were not that many tons of gold and only 20% went to Spain. The rest stayed in America. That is why New Spain and Peru appear so high.

[@nixxxon18]

@@albertoht5753 A so they appear by separate, kinda nonsense since it was all spain

[@waso778]

You ever heard of VOC???

[@josecarlossanchezalania9819]

Spain, Peru and New Spain are de same country

[@Ready_or_not_]

GDP PPP per capita is not a true indicator, since a country with a small GDP and a small population will have the same PPP as a country with a large GDP and a large population

[@jdb47games]

That's the whole point of this data! It's GDP per head, not in total.

[@maruia-bv5iz]

actually gdp per capita says is more meaningful then overall gdp

[@RGC_animation]

It's crazy that back then, all you needed was an average of $50 output per person to be the literal richest country in the world.

[@alexzgz100]

because Spain is separated from its kingdoms and France and England are not (Sicily, Peru, new Spain, Holland were Spanish and it is the only country that is calculated separately) unlike and report this video

[@peterdevalk7929]

Holland was Spanish? LOL, ONLY a few years. The Dutch were traders "pur sang"! They became very very rich from trading with Scandinavia, German states, Poland and the Baltics. Not from stealing gold and silver.

[@alexzgz100]

@@peterdevalk7929 They belonged to Spain, like southern Italy, part of France (the Franche-Comté), Belgium, Brussels and almost all of South America, 3/4 of the United States, the Philippines at that time, also Provence, the Duchy of Athens and another one in Greece, the lordship of Montpellier, almost all of southern France (MIDI) was a vassal of part of Spain (crown of Aragon) in addition to the possessions of several African cities. 70% of the gold was used to build universities, churches and infrastructures in South America, only 20% came to Spain. It was precisely Holland that stole from Spain one of the largest galleons that left South America for Spain. And about Spanish gold you can't talk about stealing since after all it was Spanish territory, Spain was one of the most moral compared to other countries that were purely exploitative see France with Haiti and its African colonies or exterminators of Indians like the English or slave traders such as the Portuguese or the Dutch (Spain to a much lesser extent) This is not a competition of who is better or worse, it is just history.

[@carmendelera4156]

@@peterdevalk7929Nowadays the Dutch are still stealing. They always have been the greatest thieves of the world.

[@alisgrin2524]

​@@peterdevalk7929 La usurpación del Imperio Portugués de oriente y el monopolio, junto a Inglaterra y Portugal del comercio de esclavos, durante siglos, son cosas angelicales... 👍👍

[@waso778]

Holland was Spain?? 😅😅😅😅😅

[@dregen8662]

Funny that you separate the Spanish empire in 1 million countries for not making them number 1 😂

[@g.g.9812]

How come Egypt is a seperate entity here ? It was a part of Ottoman Empire at that time, not a seperate country…

[@carriegraham6385]

GDP PPP doesn't give a sense of how powerful the economy was for any country during most of this period, because the vast majority of wealth was in a tiny % of the hands. Spain, for example, was hands-down the richest country in Europe if not the world once the silver got flowing around 1550, but this graphic doesn't reflect that.

[@YNB-RIC]

the kingdom of venice for centuries was one of the if not the most rich place on earth, it was the best you could get in that time.

[@matthancock9883]

I think the information presented in this series would have been more meaningful if small city-states had been excluded eg Monaco, Lichtenstein, Singapore, Hong Kong, Qatar, Bermuda, San Marino etc.

[@PanglossDr]

Why?

[@universenerdd]

Did you just call Qatar, Bermuda, and Hongkong city states?

[@PanglossDr]

@@universenerdd Unfortunately people don't need intelligence or knowledge to reply to posts on KZbin.

[@universenerdd]

@@PanglossDr ong

[@universenerdd]

@@user-bh2nd3xo2q Bermuda is an archipelago consisting of 180 islands. It has 60000 people, and it's capital has about 2000. It's small, but it's not a citystate. Hong Kong isn't a country, it's an autonomous city in China. That's like calling Iraqi Kurdistan a city state.

[@VadimChernovetsky]

How did the richest nations in 1500-1700 manage to live on 36 dollars a year? That's 3 dollars a month, or 10 today's cents a day. They would have starved to death. There must be a very big mistake in the evaluation.

[@raghubirsingh519]

MARATHA EMPIRE❤️❤️❤️

[@mediagirl]

What baffles my mind is that for hundreds of years around 50$ is the Top1, then we go for a loooong time up to around 200$ and then, within 90 years it explodes to hundred times that. HOW? Was the industralisation the factor?

[@dmitripogosian5084]

First induastrilization (19th century), then switching to more and more paper money and corresponding inflation

[@cattysplat]

Banking, world trade, disposable income, consumer products, industrial war.

[@75aces97]

Industrialization, yes, but also inventions in transportation and communication. Technology up to the nineteenth century was incremental. Napoleon couldn't move his army any faster than Mardonius. Humans could only move things at the speed of horse, wind, and waves. Thomas Mechanized transportation could move goods across an ocean in days instead of months. Economies are bigger when stuff is available from one part of the world to the rest. Once mass communication existed, knowledge of a resource spread faster.

[@julianortizmartin886]

Nonsense to separate Spain from its lands in America…aren’t we talking about countries?? New Spain WAS NOT a country!!! Absurd and ridiculous chart!!! Moreover, if you add up the wealth of the territories formed by Spain, this country is on top for more than 300 years

[@屎蒂夫與殆夫]

These are GDP “per capita” Please educate yourself.

[@agustincervantes498]

​@@屎蒂夫與殆夫 In this case the United Kingdom should not be at the top, the majority of the British Empire was poor and starving.

[@JoseGarcia-uc8qs]

Should do one on from which nations they take dubious information from the internet and further misinterpret it in a graph video to get views.

[@netherlandsball_official]

Some one in 1500s: "I have $200!" Girl in 1500s: "So rich! 🤑"

[@austinli8891]

"I'm so rich" "how much do you have" "60 dollars"

[@badcornflakes6374]

The United Kingdom made many countries rich. You can see in the mid 1800's.

[@younglord7805]

United Kingdom gave birth to many great continental countries like USA and Australia. Be proud my British friends be proud! Almost all British ruled states are democracies, well established governance, economically prosperous, such the US, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada. India is the biggest democracy and it's economy is the fastest growing major economy for the last 10 years so bravo

[@chiveschivian9965]

It also fucked over entire peoples doing so

[@11th_defender51]

@@younglord7805 I would say the British hindered that process as long as they could. Brits shouldn't be proud of their colonial past. It was evil and exploitative, why try and put a positive spin on it?

[@oleg6345]

United kingdom more like United robbers

[@badcornflakes6374]

@@oleg6345 English common law was one of the greatest things created by man. It is what many of these countries that are rich used, even India.

[@EloyDeCuevas-gf3nj]

A principios del sxvi no había Habsburgo holandeses y españoles, el emperador Carlos era la cabeza de toda la familia y gobernaba como emperador.

[@EloyDeCuevas-gf3nj]

Y hasta la independencia de las colonias en el sxix no raíste un reino de nueva españa….repasa la historia

[@bhagawanbachhav85]

Happy to see maratha empire in top 10

[@murtfowler3541]

Ireland has sold its soul and lost its sovereignty to get on that list. “Give us back to old roads.”

[@johnkoval1898]

How in the hell can there be GDP data from the 16th through 18th centuries?

[@_L.R.]

Shouldn’t “New Spain” and “Kingdom of Spain” be considered one country?

[@alisgrin2524]

Y sumando también el Virreinato del Perú, el Reino de Sicilia, Países Bajos y Argentina hasta 1814

[@dixcreative]

This should be called. Where rich people bank their money.

[@leoesharkey1]

Ireland is actually a lot richer that this video shows, as these are city-states it is being compared to, If Dublin were a city-state it would be far ahead of Luxembourg. Ireland's economy is based on five major factors; IT, Finance, Pharma, Tourism and Agriculture, and Ireland is project to have substantial economic growth in 2023 in comparison to other European states. massive investment in education over the last fifty years has changed the country and fulfilled it's potential. This investment is something that continues through the generations...

[@traitoR142]

Not one of those top 15 even have a population over 10 million, honestly none of them should even be on the list.

[@sguzzy1973]

Hello friend, the wonderful green island has achieved extraordinary results in the last 30 years, its success depends on two factors, the first is that it has been able to obtain and use appropriately the funds of the European economic community, the second is that it is a tax haven, where copyright is exempt from taxation. before that it was one of the poorest countries in the Europe

[@mikehead3456]

But weather sucks

[@mpat100]

@@mikehead3456 its nice today

[@mikehead3456]

@@mpat100 you mean past few hours

[@nigelman9506]

Why is England sending Billions to help other countries when we are not even on the list anymore, my little town lost/shut down forever 57 shops in the last 5 years

[@AlexMkd1984]

England send nothing you are so naive and stupid 😂

[@emreahmet167]

Because england isn't a tiny country.

[@nigelman9506]

​@@emreahmet167?????

[@crummyclub9344]

I feel the same way in America. We keep sending all this aide to other countries while are people are struggling to get by.

[@laszlobandi6456]

@@crummyclub9344 to be fair, the aid is nothing compared to 'defensive' military spending

[@Dheeraj-y4f]

Maratha empire🚩 Jai shivaji 🧡

[@shadowgameing2362]

😂

[@arzualcalapeakypop]

Obviously this is manipulated.. Viceroyalty of Peru, New Spain and de Kingdom of Spain is the same!!! So manipulated, please correct that

[@A.D.540]

Ireland 🇮🇪 got so boord being last it chose to jump to 6th place lol. Anyway I proud of Ireland after going through so much hardship stay prosperous.

[@korsarz95]

All because of the English speaking tax heavens!

[@seanrea8281]

@@korsarz95 Well we don't have oil and we didn't colonize anyone so we had to get clever.

[@smcmorrow1]

If that is true, the new OECD tax rules which is setting corporation tax at a minimum of 15% all these paper companies should have left Ireland by now

[@thomasdavid7364]

@@seanrea8281 Ireland colonised a quarter of the world, you buffoon

[@derekmckeown4478]

So how do do you explain that other countries with long wet tax aren’t just as or richer than Ireland

[@Exotic3000]

You have Canada on the chart in 1825. But Canada did not exist until 1867.

[@diegoflores9237]

There's a bunch of inaccuracies but it's hard to be accurate when it comes to this

[@sebas_7594]

Viceroyalty of Perú, cmon lets get back to the past my county

[@alisgrin2524]

Te refieres al Imperio Español supongo... 😎

[@sebas_7594]

@@alisgrin2524 si

[@absabs983]

I don't believe this report

[@Great-Britain2]

Neither do i

[@HJs198]

Why is ir because no india😂

[@cuanocid]

Be aware that data before 1850 are in most cases only very rough estimates. Most of the data even until 1950 is chiefly extrapolated data.

[@b.h.abbott-motley2427]

What sort of dollars are the ones shown here? They're very different from the 2011 dollars used in the Maddison Project's 2020 data release. The ratios also differ. For example, the Netherlands comes in at $4,270 compared with Portugal's $1,258 for the year 1600. That's the Netherlands at 3.4x Portugal, while this video as the Dutch Republic as 2.6x Portugal. It's also worth keep in mind that estimates of historical GDP are extremely speculative.

[@Unknown-jt1jo]

As you say, historical demographics are all essentially guesstimates. Prior to 1870, we don't have good figures for *any* country. And prior to 1950, we only have reliable figures for the rich countries.