Top 10 European Countries by GDP (1897-2022)

This video will compare the top 10 European countries by GDP from 1897 to 2022. This video exhibits the GDP figures of countries going back further in time than any other production on KZbin, so you'll witness the likes of many historically significant events that altered the economic landscape. Hopefully everyone enjoys! Be sure to like, comment, and subscribe for more videos!
Source: World Bank, Our World In Data
Music: Marche Slave by Tchaikovsky

[@RankingCharts]

*Thank you everyone for 1 million views on this video. This is the fastest a video on my channel has reached this milestone - thank you for all the love and feedback! I know it took a long time to get this video out (a couple months late) since the data prior to 1960 was very difficult to calculate, but it was worth it! Hopefully everyone enjoys! *Sorry for not including Turkiye in this video. My mistake!

[@ukzinhoblablabla]

United Kingdom is only the British Isles or is entire British Empire?

[@RankingCharts]

@@ukzinhoblablabla Great question. It refers only to the United Kingdom and excludes its colonies.

[@ukzinhoblablabla]

@@RankingCharts oh, that's why Germany was in first place sometimes

[@mbathroom1]

thanks so much, i really liked it!

[@michaelattwell7502]

It would be really instructive, and in many ways much more meaningful, to show GDP per capita charts as well as GDP. I completely agree with those comments that applaud you for showing the long-term historic trends. Fascinating.

[@haraldnijenhuis4697]

Biggest surprise for me was how well the Weimar-republic was doing despite all the restrictions after WW1.

[@arctix4518]

Well, Silesia was a part of it. So the Weimar Republic controlled two of the five most important mining areas in Europe at this time, Rhein-Ruhr and Upper Silesia. This might be the biggest reason for that. The mining industry can be restarted quickly after a war defeat.

[@lukismanager1555]

@@arctix4518 They had to pay Millions of tones of coal to france.

[@Anonymous_hugo12]

Austrian painter power

[@kalyka98]

This is the thing they were not poor but many people still were super bitter about the experience.

[@SiriusMined]

@@Anonymous_hugo12 that was all before the Austrian painter

[@ppjk5203]

Germany is like the kid that keeps getting expelled but nails every exam.

[@emirer9792]

😂😂😂

[@mofleh177]

Every time they fall they come back standing on two legs again, respect!

[@chrisjustchris8599]

@@mofleh177 but with all that money and wealth we have we are such a disappointment

[@natetwehues2428]

Germany is the kid who got expelled twice for setting the classroom on fire, but somehow now has a PhD.

[@mofleh177]

@@chrisjustchris8599 You've got to get yourselves out of the USA dominion and regain political independence. Uncle Sam is bad influence!😅

[@liamdudeeee]

That awkward moment in 1980 when West Germany has a higher GDP than the entire Soviet Union.

[@ilyatsukanov8707]

Except it never happened. I dunno where this guy got his figures, but the USSR remained the 2nd or 3rd economy in the world after the US and Japan into 1990.

[@herisuryadi6885]

@@ilyatsukanov8707 Apparently its the world bank and our world in data

[@christopherhall619]

@@ilyatsukanov8707 Yeah Soviet was like 1.1 and West Germany was like 800 lol

[@Ibachi07]

@@herisuryadi6885 Nonsense. The USSR was a sharply declining star in the late 1970s. By the 80's their economy was just a joke. It is even more extreme today with Russia. Especially when you consider the relations between the geographic size and the number of inhabitants. The only things that the USSR still had in the 80's were conventional weapons (though mostly junk) and nuclear weapons.

[@herisuryadi6885]

@@Ibachi07 Did you reply to the wrong guy or no

[@mimamo]

Germany, when down at the bottom, is always able to reinvent itself and rise to the very top again.

[@wilhelmbittrich88]

Us Germans are just built different!

[@baileyrob]

Like the Madonna of Europe 😂😂

[@regeturbo4782]

Germany doesn’t re invent themselves, they get pumped investments from foreign nations such as the USA to boost economy and trade links - without that Germany wouldnt even be top 10

[@wilhelmbittrich88]

@@regeturbo4782 How do you think countries become economically successful? By good trade partnerships and being an attractive place to invest. So I don’t see how your comment is meant to prove anything.

[@insomnia20422]

Not always in a good way though lool

[@chees8067]

Germany loses every major war it has been in and still manages to take the no.1 spot every single time, that’s absolutely amazing edit: i love causing endless political debates with a single comment i didn’t even pay attention to when leaving

[@seed_drill7135]

The victors step in and say, no more military spending, so all that industrial capacity has to go somewhere.

[@swagkachu3784]

Well it was two wars

[@swagkachu3784]

@@seed_drill7135 in the 70-90 germany had a real big military because of the cold war

[@thefirstkingdogo1126]

@@swagkachu3784 Imagen if the Sovjet Union got the west Germany It would be realy poor to

[@cerdic6305]

To be fair to everyone else, Germany failed abjectly to recover after WW1 and after WW2 it only recovered at all because of the ridiculously huge amount of money given by the USA and USSR to their respective halves of Germany

[@bubblesxd]

This really shows how much damage war did to some countries

[@RankingCharts]

Absolutely. Countries that were devastated by the war, such as Poland and the Soviet Union, had their economies significantly reduced. But for other countries, wars actually increased output - and spurred the economy!

[@wallenrod9017]

@@RankingCharts USA:

[@EllieD.Violet]

@@wallenrod9017 USA is not a European country?!

[@wallenrod9017]

@@EllieD.Violet USA had huge profits of this war.

[@bartusmarchew]

And communism. Polish Economy have done a genius work, of course we're big country too

[@kungfudildo3159]

I find it so amazing how germany always found a comeback and even west germany alone took over the first place

[@AKUJIVALDO]

That is why UK wanted to put Germany down, in both World Wars.

[@Liberty_Freedom_Brotherhood]

The benefit of being centrally located inside the EU trading block cartel

[@inotoni6148]

@@Liberty_Freedom_Brotherhood It's rather because they have a huge auto industry, machine industry, chemical industry, metal industry, pharmaceutical industry and food industry and all the products from these fields they export worldwide

[@Happyduderawr]

Germany benefitted from the marshall plan. The same with Japan. American wanted countries to export to.

[@MonsieurCorbusier]

@@inotoni6148 and because German people are the greatest

[@dimitaru.8408]

The moment in the Cold War where West Germany surpassed the Soviet's GDP was legendary.

[@keiralum1797]

Yeah, a traitor Grbachev started his Perestroika

[@heinwlod3895]

@@keiralum1797 Traitors are those who tried to get rid of him during the coup d'etat. That caused the downfall of the Soviet Union, since the Soviet Republics would no longer be willing to sign Gorbatschows new treaty for the Union.

[@axelotl86]

@@keiralum1797 which revealed how fucked up and rotten the USSR was from the inside. Not that anything changed since then.

[@hanspump2510]

@@axelotl86 Are the United States any better? The Russian government is rotten, but so is northamerican society (Canada is ok i guess).

[@patrickmorris3721]

@@hanspump2510 how did you leave Canada out of the North America???🤦

[@ZombolicBand]

Germany, how induatrialized are you? -Yes.

[@benjaminhansen4370]

The Germans are expert’s in making money, it’s kinda ridiculous to se 😂

[@patrickmorris3721]

😴🤦

[@milesmonacothesequel2294]

Was having a hard time getting to bed before this, but as soon as I read it I instantly fell asleep gor 16 hours, I missed half of my day. It's too effective for an insomnia cure, 0/10, would not recommend.

[@fwfeo]

Well, not after they decided to de-industrialize by choosing animosity with Russia! 🤷‍♂️

[@samothregnilk]

@@fwfeo 🤣

[@naufalt.a8796]

I love how you're the only channel that showing historical flag and sync it with historical event unlike other who mostly using current one and sometime showing country who didnt even exist back then.

[@JK-yi9gk]

yea hes super duper awesome aint he?

[@RankingCharts]

Indeed, it is much more accurate and interesting to see the history of countries unfold. I’m glad you enjoy!

[@wasabii8880]

@@RankingCharts keep up the good work!

[@x-a-]

@@JK-yi9gk 😂😂😂😂😂

[@ggshnick8159]

Where is flag of Russian empire? Up nevermind it's correct

[@menju32]

Germany: **Loses the war, is completly burned out and destroyed** German Economy: Hold my beer!…Just for a minute, i swear!

[@Rockingorc]

beer? where?!

[@asgxvfhvchb46]

@@Rockingorc arbeiten faule sau

[@Rockingorc]

@@asgxvfhvchb46 8h reichen pro Tag 😐

[@filippobardazzi2080]

And hated by most of the other countries, hold my beer anyway !

[@madbecause1654]

Germany is quite extraordinary in this video.

[@NerdRoomProductions]

It has the largest population by a considerable margin excluding Russia.

[@Micha-qv5uf]

Haha the fact that both Germanys were in the top 6 throughout most of the cold war era xD

[@Youtubechannel-po8cz]

Yeah, Germany is a very lucky country. After the death and destruction it caused across Europe, not to mention the industrial scale murder of men, women and children, that the western allies protected it from Soviet Russia, whilst providing the money to rebuilt the country. I don’t think the axis powers would have been so humane if they had won. Yeah, Germany has done very well for its self.

[@Micha-qv5uf]

@@KZbinchannel-po8cz What is the purpose of this comment? Nobody who was responsible for that is alive today. Do you have any problem? Are you jealous or something?

[@ryanvanderveer4263]

@@KZbinchannel-po8cz You know they had to pay back every single bit of money they received from the allies to rebuild right ? And keep in mind the allies didn’t help West-Germany because of how ‘generous, kind, humane’ the allies only did so because they needed a strong democratic western German ally because of the Cold War. Germany wasn’t a lucky country at all. They were stripped of 1/3 of their territories, lost 10.000.000 people as a result of ww2, had millions of German POWs work for the allies(until 1954) and many died as a result of this. Their country was destroyed, their economy crippled, their country was divided for 44 years etc. (Of course Germany wasn’t the only one to suffer badly from the war, so did countries like Poland which suffered just as bad) (Hereby I'm not justifying the actions and atrocities commited by Nazi Germany, I'm just pointing out that your statement about Germany being a lucky country is a wrong perception)

[@neb6304]

@@KZbinchannel-po8cz If we come back that often its Kind of obvious that germany is not lucky. Germans have a good work ethic, we are dedicated and efficient, our Engineering and precision is known on the whole globe. Made in Germany was an invention to warn a customer of a product, our quality resulted in the opposite: people wanted products that were made in germany, because they last longer.

[@zbigniewkoza1973]

The numbers for USSR after 1918, Soviet Block 1945-1990, and to some extent for nazi Germany, fascist Italy, and the Russian Federation are completely made up by their propaganda. Yes, the level of life in East Germany after approx 1970 was higher than in any other Soviet-block country, but the GDP of a 10-million East Germany was certainly not higher than the GDP of a nearly 40-million Poland. The currency in the Soviet block was not freely exchangeable into dollars, actually, for many decades one could go to prison for just having dollars. The borders were closed, and the communist states had a monopoly on foreign exchange, the difference between the black-market and official exchange rates was tremendous: the average salary in Poland in 1988 was worth less than 20 USD if exchanged on the black market. I doubt that the same for East Germany was higher than 30-40 USD (!). I guess East Germans used a fixed exchange rate of their east mark to the West German mark, say, 2:1 or something similar, that's the reason for East Germany's position in the ranking.

[@Misteribel]

I can’t imagine how hard it must have been to collect all the historic data and convert it to a common currency. Pretty amazing and loved the music track!

[@stijnhs]

Most of these data records are all kept in USD already. Still a lot of work though...

[@rapier1954]

Just buy the World Almanac they have been providing this data since I've been a child and I'm sixty-eight.

[@benchoflemons398]

Well, even today, economists just take a guess

[@Tankliker]

@@stijnhs the entire system of the USSR didn't even work with the GDP number. Probably a lot of recalculation done here. Should we really trust it? Questionable.

[@pedrollex3308]

Its all made up the creator of the video is an a poussy

[@pogo8050]

Every country: *goes through boom and bust cycles because of wars* Sweden and Switzerland: I was a businessman doing business things

[@TileBitan]

As a spanish, I just hope that some day we get our shit together, because the country has been underperforming for centuries; it has lots of potential

[@TileBitan]

@@Klaus_Kinski179 i didn't know we could blame the euro for the entire ~1750-1999 period... The reason is structural, but it can be fixed with good leadership and time As the shy fellow @md_muzikz deleted his comment, i'll repeat it for context. He argued that the Euro was at fault

[@TheFrenchscot]

Many centuries of dictatorship... and the Franco scars. But being at the gate between the Mediterranean and the Atlantic, Spain is favored by nature for its position. I have no doubt in the capacity of the spanish people to work hard. In my field of research, i see only good projects by spanish colleagues. Much love from France. I hope that we will collaborate more and more with time.

[@TileBitan]

@@TheFrenchscot Much love mate, I work in machine learning & aerospace and trust me it's reciprocal. France recently has been producing brilliant minds such as Yann LeCun and so far my interaction with french colleagues has been a treat

[@TheFrenchscot]

@@TileBitan it's a delight to hear, especially for someone like me with some roots in Spain (Murcia... but my spanish ancestord left long ago, in 1917). Viva España

[@maximilian6305]

to be fair, your geography kinda fucked you. very hard to build an industrialized economy in a hilly and mountainous region without any big rivers for trade. european flatlands got that as a huge advantage for them.

[@Mrpickles2921]

Tchaikovsky.. great choice

[@carterzhang2977]

I love how you’re the only channel that shows data from the 1900s. So cool 👍!

[@RankingCharts]

I’m so glad you enjoy!

[@user-iw1nw4du8x8]

Check when concept of GDP was createad and you will get why nobody does these kinds videos from 1900s

[@selwynrenard]

Would love to see this as a GDP per capita.

[@mrcaboosevg6089]

GDP per capita is a pointless statistic

[@jaroslavklima4591]

@@mrcaboosevg6089 aboslutely not... thats the important one.... you can see USSR on 1. place for many years...but reality in that empire was just terrible...

[@mrcaboosevg6089]

@@jaroslavklima4591 GDP per capita is just the GDP split between everyone. US has a high GDP per capita but only because there's a lot of rich people, the average person is gonna be way below the median GDP.

[@destinyrpga8118]

@@mrcaboosevg6089 i mean, GDP per capita is still much better indicator than regular GDP (as long as we are talking about country's wealthy)

[@espvp]

@@mrcaboosevg6089 still, doesn't make it pointless and in that sense, nominal GDP is also affected by that imbalance, even more so. Per capita paints a more realistic image at least.

[@lindaliriel]

As an Italian I am honestly amazed at how well Italy did. I had no idea we were so consistent, we keep being told how there's a crisis...

[@ichbinsnicht5860]

Only if u had a stable government that wouldn't dissolve every year

[@lindaliriel]

@@ichbinsnicht5860 ikr? If we had fewer parties and a healthier gov we'd be number 1 lol

[@laus7080]

@@lindaliriel No1? haha. Germany is twice as rich!

[@lindaliriel]

@@laus7080 no what? "I am honestly amazed at how well Italy did" does not mean Italy is best! You just make yourself look silly by commenting non sequiturs like that

[@rollingdear2165]

That is exactly what questionable politicians would say to gain power, italians should be really careful with this! Just look at Germany before the Nazi Empire, they were rather well off, considering the war reparations from the first world war, but Hitler was so convincing that there was a crisis.... Much love to Italy tho, just get a stable government and then you can enjoy dolce vita

[@xmaniac99]

Incredible how no one speaks about the economy of the Netherlands. Also amazing how Italy briefly surpassed the UK and was at par with France for a couple of years. Especially more so for a country with no natural resources to speak of.

[@apb2081]

Italy will become richer than the UK for sure, brexit is not working for the uk. Brexit is sinking the uk

[@yournotgully]

@@apb2081 the uk still has much higher economic growth than italy, also, dont act like italy doesn't also have a terrible government.

[@yournotgully]

@@apb2081 Uk's gdp growth in 2022 was projected at 7% italy's gdp growth in 2022 was projected at 3.7%

[@apb2081]

@@yournotgully The uk the only country in Europe that is in recession, even the cnn is laughing at brexit, you are not rational bbc just said that car outputs is at 66 year low , stop hiding

[@Yoshi-wt4lg]

@@yournotgully france's economy bounced back very well, now with the lowest inflation in europe

[@JesperRoos]

Sweden being in a pretty stable position through all of it.

[@johnnorthtribe]

That surprised me considering our low population.

[@samuelsomfan]

@@johnnorthtribe well we avoided both world wars and have been a pretty stable and economically free country for most of the time. Works wonders for the economy.

[@zyzzsdisciples6707]

@@samuelsomfanSwedes having no souls and only 2 generations away from chimpanzees means they need to make up for it in other ways

[@steifan]

Duelling with Belgium for most of the time (which was devastated in two world wars), well done Belgium as well ^^

[@getoutim07]

UK stayed at a pretty decent spot the whole time

[@Mr.LeoWarren]

Thank you so much for this video. I loved researching the different countries and comparing significant economic trends with historical events. It was very interesting!

[@pynn1000]

Like these charts. Appreciate the work that goes into them, especially this one. "Economic landscape" measured by total GDP - good, useful, pretty reliable measure. Edit: looked at chart a couple more times to examine particular areas that interested me - e.g. independence of most of Ireland 100 years ago did not affect UK's gross GDP, Switzerland's steadiness.

[@LoliPolice-bf7mw]

That is because Ireland provided next to no economic power to the UK’s massive empire. Ireland also was given plenty of breathing room and pretty much no Irish man was paying taxes.

[@TigerUpperCut22]

appreciated

[@kamash12able]

Heartbreaking to see Poland at #6 just before WW2, than making a surprising comeback in 50/60s to plummet again and make it again to top ten in recent years

[@therealadamshort]

It did well in the 50s/60s as the Soviet Union was booming post-war (leading to the red scare) and as poland was a semi-puppet, it attained a high gdp comparatively to war-torn Europe

[@DavidJamesquoracy]

The only way is up for us. Wait till we get nuclear energy. We have very clever kids taking education seriously and people who really like to get our of bed and do projects.

[@lukaszlublin86]

Per citizen Poland was one of the poorest countries in Europe.

[@seaman5705]

​@@therealadamshort Do you think USSR gave something to Poland or any other communist countries ? No , they took from them what they could .They helped African and Sud-American countries where they wanted to export their "revolution". In Eastern Europe the "revolution" was already implemented by force at the end of WW2 . The rise in GDP until 1960 was due to big industrial development implemented by the communists . The people build and worked for little money - thus the GDP rise . Some were forced, many were convinced that is the good way . My country was in the 7th position up to 1960 , then it fell, when they were not able to keep up with the technological advances . Now is the second poorest in EU . Some people have absolutely no clue what communism was . I would have liked to see what all the West have done without the Marshall Plan.

[@RudOlf-wt3mv]

@@DavidJamesquoracy If your kids are clever, they won't go for nuclear energy thought. If something goes wrong, due to an accident or war, you will poisen your country and its people for hundreds if not thousands of years. I know a turkish man who came from a region around the black sea, because of Chernobyl accident he and most of his family got cancer. The radiation got to Turkey and many people suffer where he came from.

[@brodacx2268]

For a country as small as the Netherlands, they’ve done great to stay as political and economical relevant throughout the ages

[@KK-rg1wz]

Look at Belgium ... twice as strong as The Netherlands, till 1914-1918, ....

[@brodacx2268]

@@KK-rg1wz yeah and thats great, how are they standing now?

[@KK-rg1wz]

@@brodacx2268 pro capita on about the same level as The Netherlands

[@vsl5455]

I would really call a country of about 20 million inhabitants small, their size interms of area is deceiving since they are one of the most densely populated countries in europe, I think actually the densest if you don't count micro states

[@bigbadlara5304]

@@vsl5455 still less than 1/4th the population of Germany and only 3% of the total European population.

[@tristanthamm505]

It’s unbelievable that the German gdp in 1945!!! was still higher than the British one. You’d think that after years of war, huge territorial and human losses and being bombed to rubble they would be barely functional.

[@streetwind.]

It's partly a result of how GDP is calculated. Ask any economist, and they'll tell you that while GDP is a useful metric for judging national output at a glance, it is not so good for anything else, like judging what that output is made of and how that affects the population's quality of life. The country was indeed being bombed into oblivion, but those parts still running were cranking out high-tech military products, which are very valuable, and thus artificially inflate the GDP. Also, as GDP figures are calculated in yearly intervals, they gloss over the total collapse that happened over the final few months. Then, between 1946 and 1948, there was no formally existing nation in the occupied area at all, which is why you see no GDP numbers for that time span, and thus you don't see the true fall in output. When West Germany formally starts existing in 1949 and reappears in the chart, it's already starting to climb up from that invisible valley again, buoyed by the implementation of the Marshall Plan. There's a video you can look up on youtube, called "why war economies don't collapse (until they do)". Has some insight on how nations suffering from what should be mounting economic devastation can keep chugging on for longer than you'd think as long as they're at war.

[@tristanthamm505]

@@streetwind. Good points

[@williammorley2401]

Tristan Thamm, all of the above also happened to Great Britain, except they were on the winning side!!.

[@craigstephens93]

Britain was economically devastated after the war and continued to pay back the Americans for their 'help' into the next century.

[@tiagomonteiro130]

@@williammorley2401 Would have lost a long time ago at Dunkirk and without the Soviets and US

[@MooohGX]

Germany is in a league of its own

[@ashleyk1782]

In fact, your channel is the best in terms of statistics, but you take a long time to publish more videos. I will make you hungry and I wish you to publish a video about the industrialized countries in the world from 1892 to 2022, and I will be grateful to you👍👍💛

[@RankingCharts]

Thank you! I try my best to upload more regularly. However, it is really difficult to gather the data going back so far into the past.

[@paulchristiaens331]

Nicely done! Do you have such a comparison in GDP per capita too? This gives a better insight in the actual economic well-being of a country. Now it's clear that the largest EU countries are on top of the list.

[@smaragdwolf1]

a new version of this in a few years could be interesting, with everything that goes on right now here in Europe.

[@petramaas8574]

A brilliant visualization, thank you.

[@Gloriaimperial1]

Good video. But what I like the most is Chaikowsky's Slavic March!

[@henrytopham9681]

Enjoyable, interesting and at times astonishing video. Thank you.

[@ghaffy1]

This is excellent work. Great idea, masterfully implemented. Thank you!

[@ingooutes232]

Fantastic visualization !!! Unfortunately many of the largest changes in rank position are likely due to currency fluctuations. For example, UK exiting the ERM currency system in the 90s. While currencies in the long term represent the attractiveness of a country, they are sensitive to medium term fluctuations. The statistic I would have liked to see plotted is Purchasing Power Party per Capita - a truer measure of Living Standards per capita. Though, granted, PPP measures are unlikely to be found before the 1950s. Nevertheless, great job !!!

[@svenvogelaar8784]

Watching Belgium and yhe Netherlands which places about 20 times was nerf wrecking to say the least.

[@gabrielenemilie]

@Carmen de Graaf Historically the population of Belgium was larger than that of the Netherlands. The Netherlands only surpassed Belgium in the 1930ies en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demography_of_the_Netherlands en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Belgium Further back in the Burgundian period the difference was even larger especially due to the large population of the county of Flanders nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bourgondische_Nederlanden

[@MrRedeyedJedi]

Yes, giant foam darts all over the place!

[@MusicIsLegal]

@Carmen de Graaf And the Dutch economy isnt a gas/oil industry... its a service based industry though gas revenue did help a little.

[@MusicIsLegal]

@Carmen de Graaf That was just for a short period of time because the gas back then out weight the rest of the economy now however it barely exports gas.

[@Rattenhoofd]

Don't worry, we're not going to be switching places anymore 😉

[@Snowwie88]

Proud of my country, the Netherlands, look at it, with all these much LARGER countries around it (except Switzerland - kudo's to the Swiss as well), but just to think there are only 17 million Dutch people responsible for a GDP over a Trillion. Awesome, and in absolute terms the 8.7 million Swiss are doing it even better, although only having 80% of the Dutch GDP 😎👍

[@gianurwiler5098]

Thank you very much ;) im also proud of my country Switzerland. (And the Netherlands have done it very well for its side)🎉

[@jespoketheepic]

It was fascinating to see how Belgium and Sweden stuck so close together for most of this video.

[@CrystalClearWith8BE]

In 1960, a year before the construction of the Berlin Wall, East Germany made it to the Top 10 highest GDP in Europe. It didn't last long until 1986. In the 1960s, the East German government have enough and decided to close the border with the construction of the Berlin Wall. Back in the '50s, some Germans in East Germany fleed to cross the Iron Curtain to West Germany and/or West Berlin. In 1986, East Germany was out of the Top 10 highest GDP in Europe. 3 years later, the Berlin Wall was destroyed and many East Germans entered West Berlin for a celebration. In 1990, Germany was reunified as East joined West and their capital is once again, Berlin. Lastly, the reunified Germany still have the highest GDP in Europe to this day.

[@TOFKAS01]

Belgium 1991: Was that Sovjetunion falling down in front of my window?

[@diazinth]

defenestration ^,^

[@annestovgaard681]

wow very interesting to follow history by GDP 🙂 I love video´s that makes you smarter, we need so much more of that on youtube.

[@muskelprotz7824]

Wirklich eine interessante Darstellung, mit ein paar Überraschungen, die ich so nicht kommen sah.

[@eastwestworld6648]

Go Italy! The Italians holding economically in the top 5 for many decades. Forza Italia!

[@ggnoob671]

And dept and eu gold

[@kdum8]

Believe those numbers and you’ll believe anything. Italy’s figures are almost certainly not real.

[@Bibiisachildkiller]

Because Italy produces and has many things of the best quality: Tourism (helped by its unique history and art heritage), food, wine, sports cars, clothes, etc.

[@eastwestworld6648]

@@kdum8 Italy is a G7 country and is the 8th biggest economy in the world. The 3rd largest EU economy and the second biggest manufacturing economy after Germany. Gaslighting doesn't work when you know the facts.

[@VittRomani]

@@Bibiisachildkiller the main italian industries are industrial machinery, metal products, pharmaceutical products.

[@kzwize]

Thank you very much for your content! I really enjoyed! Some countries were most of the time in Top of the Charts :)) How do you theese dynamic charts to look like animation. What do you use?

[@Rampart.X]

Brilliant. And the music was awesome

[@nicholasroberts6954]

Love this sort of thing . . A touch of the Hans Rosling . . Brings stats to life. Perestroika and Glasnost really took the wind out of the Soviet sails mid -1980s. - the conversion from a directed military economy to a slightly more consumerist one. Equivalent to the UKs loss of Empire. But they seem to be recovering more quickly.

[@occamraiser]

Excellent. I noted that the music through a lot of it was 'March Slav' - I thought we'd see russia higher up the list - but the Soviet numbers were impressive -if true.

[@Scalpaxos]

I'd be curious to see a more detailed benchmark like: population ; sovereign debt ; balance of trade.

[@ziizee4614]

This is the most interesting video I have seen about economic projection and statistics. Just subscribed. The german resilience has to be studied. Italy looks more like guy chilling with a drink on a sunny day on the beach. Can't be bothered at all.😁😁

[@keithbrierley710]

Thank you very well done

[@corbynite2004]

Great video! Big ask here, but could you do videos like this for PPP, and steel production, and steel consumption, and aluminum production, and aluminum consumption?? I would love to see those, especially to contrast GDP to PPP

[@corbynite2004]

And energy consumption and energy production! Might be hard to aggregate things like fossil fuels and renewables, or even different types of fossil fuels… but if you were somehow able to get It down to terawatt hours per year that would be amazing

[@MichaelAMVM]

@@corbynite2004 And plastics, concrete and (syntetic) rubber.

[@wilteduk007]

The UK has stood the test of time. Especially surprising considering the population difference to Germany/Russia

[@ahemenidov1900]

The UK had largest colonial empire worked for them. While Germany either totally or almost (in different times) didn't have colonies. And USSR in many cases vice versa developed its remote ethnic parts for the sponsorship of center (now they are such as Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and Azerbaijan just chilling thanks to Soviet investments, having pushed out most of Russian and Ukrainian ethnicities people).

[@expatalan6511]

In the next 25 years the UK will knock Germany off the top spot. It will be the dominant economic power in Europe and it’s population will also surpass 80 million. Not my opinion, that’s what has been said by the analysts. 🇬🇧 🏆 👍🏻

[@ahemenidov1900]

@@expatalan6511 In the next 25 years the economy of people will finally become obsolete being changed to the economy of energy. 80 mln or 400 mln people will mean nothing more than a burden on state's neck which drags it to the bottom.

[@rmanpojo8485]

@@expatalan6511 Plz source? Brexit was not a good move. ;-)

[@subsonikk101]

@@expatalan6511coping

[@jonb77]

That was very clever and also very interesting.

[@adrianwerum9660]

very interesting ! Thanks !!

[@antaresmaelstrom5365]

I'd love to see one of those measured in US dollars from the year it starts, so basically inflation adjusted. (unless that is somehow already factored in)

[@monster2slayer]

the numbers would change, but the relarive scale would be exactly the same, so theres not really a point in doing that.

[@ayumisanyuki7116]

now I understand why the big 5 were germany, uk, france, italy, and spain in eurovision

[@StephanBuchin]

So well done. I watched the whole video trying to connect each major shift with historical facts 🙂

[@aljoschalong625]

Very interesting and great visualization. 👍

[@MrKruger88]

It would be really cool if we could see a map with the changing borders along with the graph.

[@Romanball5677]

Please do country manifacturing comparison

[@gabrielbcosta1998]

It's wild for me (a Portuguese) to see that Portugal was on this list several times in the past (in the far far past). Also, loved how Austria made a very brief comeback almost 80 years later (1918-1999)... thrilling ahah

[@alexandruilea915]

Colonies which you no longer have.

[@alexandruilea915]

I'm even more surprised to have seen Romania on the chart for a while.

[@gabrielbcosta1998]

@@alexandruilea915 I forgot this very very small detail 😅

[@tooyoungtobeold8756]

Brilliant. Quite exciting really - well done such a lot of work there or did a computer programme do all the work?

[@A.Dude.]

Excellent video!

[@joexali235]

Did you see that wonderful split second where finland was in the top 10.

[@Nat3YT]

I'd like to take the chance of potentially reaching people here. What you see are some interesting statistics, yes. However, you must keep in mind how unfitting a comparison in GDP between countries is, even the founder of said method (GDP) believes it is. Instead, you should look at purchasing power parity (PPP). It gives more insight as to what one person could afford with the same amount of money in a state. Other than that, great visual! I don't know whether the statistics are right or wrong, but it looks nice nonetheless!

[@marcbruggeman1851]

History in numbers !, really interesting

[@1363behrouz]

brilliant content thx

[@jazzyb9488]

Interesting how even today some countries haven’t really recovered from the 2008 crash. Of course Brexit did harm to the UK but 2008 seems the bigger hit. The sheer speed the Soviet’s economy grew from 1944-1950 was astounding too

[@annarichardson7794]

"Of course Brexit did harm to the UK" Typical unaccountable brexit jab from the remoaner. But this time you can't get away with it as this video shows some clear numbers: UK was: In 2016 - 73% of German Economy In 2021 - 75% of German Economy In 2016 - 104% of French Economy In 2021 - 109% of French Economy In 2016 - 138% of Italian Economy In 2021 - 152% of Italian Economy In 2016 - 206% of Spanish Economy In 2021 - 224% of Spanish Economy Next time you start to throw out mindless drivel actually have a look at some data first.

[@VanillaMacaron551]

This timeline doesn't go far enough to reflect Britain's economic loss from Brexit - that will show up in data from the next few years.

[@VanillaMacaron551]

I went to some lectures on 20thC French history a few years ago, and was shocked to hear how physically and economically ravaged France was from the two world wars. In fact I would think it's still being felt today. Many villages were abandoned or ruined. I'm guessing this led to the trend from the 80s onwards of Brits and others buying up rural French properties as holiday homes, at very cheap prices.

[@AdamPalomino]

@@VanillaMacaron551 That's what everyone said a few years ago....

[@dulls8475]

@@VanillaMacaron551 Ah well keep hoping.

[@daisuke6072]

Informative and well thought out illustrative learning aid. Fascinating to see the fall of the UK, the rises and falls of Soviet Union and West Germany/Germany

[@williammorley2401]

Daisuke, fall of the UK!?. Germany and the UK were number 1 and number 2 (both sometimes being at the number 1 and other times number 2 position), for most of the video, and that's how it finished, Germany at number 1 and the UK at number 2!.

[@skuchi9]

Great video, as usual!

[@RankingCharts]

Thank you, as usual!

[@ch33rfulness]

One thing that’s amazing, apart from the variations driven by war and other factors, is the continuously increase of GDP. I know the basic calculation of the GDP, and I understand the logics behind it, yet it always amazes to see the impact of the Industrial Revolution and the birth of real consumerism. I mean, ok, our productivity has been increased through technology, but we’ve also learned how to use the last drop of any natural resources; thus, I’d say we’re not on the right road, even with a 2-3% GDP growth rate, as we’ll still hit then dead end in a not so distant future.

[@Valivali94]

Germany in 1918 and 1945: Aight see you later boys, I´ll let someone else take the lead for a few years.

[@epjarvis1285]

More like "We feel confident enough to try and take over everything because we are rich" *Proceeds to get punched up by the British*

[@JustSomeTommy]

I love Charts like these. You should make the same video but with gdp per capita instead.

[@user-bx7no6zc5w]

Very interesting!

[@uli8537]

Very interesting chart; would be nice to have it relative to the population of the countries to make them more comparable.

[@stevenfennell7020]

Indeed. This chart ignores the fact that people from Norway. Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Belgium, Netherlands. Luxembourg, Ireland, Switzerland are the actual richest countries in Europe.

[@checkcommentsfirst3335]

@@stevenfennell7020 per capita

[@13neworld]

1st & 2nd Monaco & Liechtenstein, 3rd Luxembourg, 4th Ireland (where big US companys "pay" their european taxes)--> all tax havens and not very significant for the wealth of the origin population there. Norway follows them because of it's oil. 6th and 7th Switzerland and Isle of Man again are tax havens (maybe less in switzerland). All in all it's not a statistic where citizens of these top countrys can be "proud" of because a lot of this wealth is generated in other countries (or luck --> oil).

[@stevenfennell7020]

@@13neworld Ireland has some of the highest tax rates in Europe, so its a pretty rubbish tax haven. It also has some of the highest pay rates in Europe, again not typical of a tax haven. The genuine tax havens are all British controlled, places like the Cayman islands and British Virgin islands. Not forgetting the City of London which is the European capital of money laundering.

[@13neworld]

@@stevenfennell7020 Ireland is/was one of the most used tax havens for big companies like apple, Amazon, IKEA, Google, Facebook and co.. The tax avoidance method is called Double Irish arrangement (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Irish_arrangement). By using this the tax debts of these companies were halved. This tax avoidance "tool" was closed in recent years, we will see its effect to the BIP per capita in future. The Cayman and the Virgin Islands are not in Europe, so I didn't include it. The City of London is part of Great Britain, so it's effect to the BIP per capita is not as high as the small countries like Luxembourg. :)

[@EmptyNonsens]

I would love to see one with GDP per Capita

[@Astrawboy_NameAlreadyInUse]

This is very interesting.

[@andrewphilip3308]

Excellent piece of work. You just cannot stop the Germans working - it's amazing. Something to do with the language perhaps. You often can't tell what the sentence means till you get to the last word, so perhaps they get habituated to delayed gratification ??

[@somersetfan1]

Interesting to see little impact on the figures of Brexit, in spite of the impact on SMEs

[@leonpascar9676]

Amazing to see the relative performance of Russia/USSR.

[@Philip-1]

*Suggestion:* I'd like to see the top 10 richest Washington lobbyists (NRA, AIPAC, etc.) ranked across the past 50 years. That would be quite interesting. 👍

[@Moazra101]

That 1945 Germany drop was insane

[@okkuhl365]

Well German didn’t exist back then cuz we have been conquered. For good ^^

[@GameplayAddict]

Yo, Poland is amazing. props to you

[@majkel1]

Thanks for support

[@eSBAcake]

My favourite moments: Belgium vs. Sweden, Austria 1999 (overtaking Russia), Norway 2012 (~5 million people). Who knew the fiercest GDP rivalry in Europe was between Belgium and Sweden?

[@7UVA]

They have 2 million more people, every swede must do their part in the funny number go brr war against Belgium 🫡🫡

[@GayTruckDriver]

the fiercest battle i think is germany against itself

[@dotabuff5288]

MY FAVOURITE MOMENT WILL BE WHEN ALL WESTERN PIGS GIVE BACK EVERYTHING WHAT THEY ROBBED FROM USSR AND RUSSIA WILL BE NUMBER ONE NOT ONLY IN EUROPE BUT IN WORLD

[@GayTruckDriver]

@@dotabuff5288 my dog is smarter than you. Probably smells better aswell.

[@ike7484]

@@7UVA Belgium may have people but Sweden is top 5 in land-area in Europe and has a lot of trees and metals.

[@rollosinternet1853]

Seems quite accurate. Funny to see the UK going down in the 60's until it joined the EEC, then racing up. Spain's chart also matching with its civil war and ups and downs.

[@jenkz16]

There are lots of changes which take place in the 70s. The most impactful is the introduction of a service based economy and disbanding uncompetitive manufacturing industries. National events are much more significant onto an economy than trade unions. Many countries in the EEA have chronic economic issues that have not or will not be solved.

[@gustaaf1892]

Would be interesting to see the same video, but this time GDP divided by population to provide perspective on how efficient countries have been in their production. GDP is obviously heavily skewed by the size of a country's population.

[@rrrado1]

Russia, biggest country in the World, unlimited natural resources.... what an embarrassment.

[@leleuvulliez]

Where you get data from?

[@garethnoble11]

be interesting to see gdp per head of population as an indication of wealth. It doesn't say anything about how its distributed, though.

[@staffan-]

The wild ride of the Russian/Soviet economy is extremely interesting to follow! Especially the plummeting economy during the last years of the Soviet union was interesting.

[@filippetrovic845]

Even in 2014 their economy got destroyed.

[@user-sy2jy1si8f]

These numbers at the end of this ride were real. Before that, it was potemkin economy. The Soviet Union's GDP was vastly overestimated. In reality, it was several times lower.

[@noid717]

@@user-sy2jy1si8f да, действительно, еще земля плоская. если этим цифрам не верить зачем вообще тогда твой комментарий. может и другие страны неправильно посчитали, расскажи нам

[@user-sy2jy1si8f]

@@noid717 поскольку в СССР вообще не вели статистику ВВП, то считали, ясное дело, другие страны. Например, в ЦРУ был целый отдел, занимавшийся этим. И да, считали они не просто неправильно, а в разы неправильно. В конце 1991 года руководителей этого отдела даже вызывали на ковер в Сенат США, чтобы те объяснили, почему по их отчётам СССР был экономическим гигантом с огромным ВВП, а на деле это оказалась нищая отсталая страна, в которую приходится посылать ножки Буша, чтобы там голод не начался.

[@keiralum1797]

@@user-sy2jy1si8f глупости сочиняешь какие-то. Все они правильно считали, просто купили Горбача и ко и запустили перестройку, т.е. развал СССР. Очень много производства потом распиливалось 30 лет.

[@rex70121]

The German Machine. Resilient..bounces back to Nr1 every time.

[@mogznwaz]

Bigger landmass and population

[@linajurgensen4698]

@@mogznwaz population yes. Landmass no, France, Spain and Italy are all bigger.

[@mogznwaz]

@@linajurgensen4698 I was thinking in relation to the UK. The UK always bats well above its weight considering its small size

[@Flotter-Flo]

@@mogznwaz How do you think countries grow their population... by whining and crying "Unfair!"?

[@mogznwaz]

@@Flotter-Flo WTF are you talking about ?

[@MB-wm8nr]

I like how no matter what Italy is always in its 3rd/4th/5th position. And then they say our economy is not stable 🤡

[@iactas7892]

Italy always the one being dogshit in a big war and switching sides when they lose

[@siepmans]

Big population= large gdp

[@Pingopalla]

@@iactas7892 stop hating countries on KZbin.

[@MB-wm8nr]

@@siepmans Say that to Russia or to Austria-Hungary

[@seed_drill7135]

No, we say your government is not stable. Edit: that joke worked better before 1/6/22.

[@marcuswernersson332]

I would love to see this same period in GDP per capita. Would you please make it? 🙏

[@holsson7958]

Since Sweden would be nr 1 all the time? :)

[@typhoidtyphoon]

Music sounds like somebody sprayed coffee over the 1812 ouverture - but I'm not complaining. Marche Slave, eh? Gonna look that up.

[@Randsom]

Hi, could you make a TOP GDP regions of Spain please. Thanks and great video.

[@bernardgarrett3897]

'Only if your Spanish !!!!!!!

[@KPSX1]

If Italy were to realise its full potential and had a different mentality to that of Germany, for example, they would be at least third in Europe.

[@alyndavies]

The British are fairly consistent, no major dramas in there.

[@Anakin_Sandy_High_Ground]

All the media hysteria about Brexit for 7 years but the UK hasnt collapsed lol

[@skiry_7207]

Why these GDP are much different than the one you showed time back on "Top 10 countries GDP"? Same countries have extremely different GDP's. Is this correct and the other one wrong? Or am I missing something?