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It accounted for 25.4% of global GDP in 1 CE, 29% of world global output in 1600 CE, 17.3% of the world's economy in 1870, and 33% in 1820 (its highest point). China's share of global GDP varied from a quarter to a third of global output until the late 19th century. [12]
First World War: 1914–1918 (1981) the standard world economic history of the war; Horn, Martin. Britain, France, and the Financing of the First World War (2002) Kennedy, Paul. The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000 (1987) pp 256–74; Mendershausen, Horst. The Economics of War (1940) online
The following estimates are taken exclusively from the 2007 monograph Contours of the World Economy, 1–2030 AD by the British economist Angus Maddison. [4] When graphed, one can see that India was the world's largest economy from year 1 to year 1500, when it lost the position to China, who subsequently lost the position around 1890.
The following estimates are taken exclusively from the 2007 monograph Contours of the World Economy, 1–2030 AD by the British economist Angus Maddison. [2] (GDP (PPP) in millions of 1990 International Dollars) [3] [4] [5] Year 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th 2030 (forecast) China 22,983,000 United States 16,662,000 India 10,074,000 Japan
[7] [8] Since China's transition to a socialist market economy through controlled privatisation and deregulation, [9] [10] the country has seen its ranking increase from ninth in 1978, to second in 2010; China's economic growth accelerated during this period and its share of global nominal GDP surged from 2% in 1980 to 18% in 2021. [8] [1] [11]
The economic history of the world encompasses the development of human economic activity throughout time. It has been estimated that throughout prehistory, the world average GDP per capita was about $158 per annum (inflation adjusted for 2013), and did not rise much until the Industrial Revolution .
Nearly half of Americans in a recent poll believe China has surpassed America as the strongest economy in the world, and more than half blame the loss of manufacturing jobs and corporate
Historically, the United States was consistently year after year the world's largest economy since the early twentieth century. However, the report from 2014 showed that for the very first time China overtook the United States as the largest economy in the world taking into account purchasing power parity (PPP). Indeed, the margin of power ...