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 KZread, 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

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  • @RankingCharts
    @RankingCharts Жыл бұрын

    *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

    @ukzinhoblablabla

    Жыл бұрын

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

  • @RankingCharts

    @RankingCharts

    Жыл бұрын

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

  • @ukzinhoblablabla

    @ukzinhoblablabla

    Жыл бұрын

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

  • @mbathroom1

    @mbathroom1

    Жыл бұрын

    thanks so much, i really liked it!

  • @michaelattwell7502

    @michaelattwell7502

    Жыл бұрын

    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
    @haraldnijenhuis4697 Жыл бұрын

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

  • @arctix4518

    @arctix4518

    Жыл бұрын

    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

    @lukismanager1555

    Жыл бұрын

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

  • @Anonymous_hugo12

    @Anonymous_hugo12

    Жыл бұрын

    Austrian painter power

  • @kalyka98

    @kalyka98

    Жыл бұрын

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

  • @SiriusMined

    @SiriusMined

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Anonymous_hugo12 that was all before the Austrian painter

  • @bubblesxd
    @bubblesxd Жыл бұрын

    This really shows how much damage war did to some countries

  • @RankingCharts

    @RankingCharts

    Жыл бұрын

    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

    @wallenrod9017

    Жыл бұрын

    @@RankingCharts USA:

  • @EllieD.Violet

    @EllieD.Violet

    Жыл бұрын

    @@wallenrod9017 USA is not a European country?!

  • @wallenrod9017

    @wallenrod9017

    Жыл бұрын

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

  • @bartusmarchew

    @bartusmarchew

    Жыл бұрын

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

  • @ppjk5203
    @ppjk5203 Жыл бұрын

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

  • @emirer9792

    @emirer9792

    Жыл бұрын

    😂😂😂

  • @mofleh177

    @mofleh177

    Жыл бұрын

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

  • @chrisjustchris8599

    @chrisjustchris8599

    Жыл бұрын

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

  • @natetwehues2428

    @natetwehues2428

    Жыл бұрын

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

  • @mofleh177

    @mofleh177

    Жыл бұрын

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

  • @liamdudeeee
    @liamdudeeee Жыл бұрын

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

  • @ilyatsukanov8707

    @ilyatsukanov8707

    Жыл бұрын

    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

    @herisuryadi6885

    Жыл бұрын

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

  • @christopherhall619

    @christopherhall619

    Жыл бұрын

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

  • @herisuryadi6885

    @herisuryadi6885

    Жыл бұрын

    @Iba Hyuuga Did you reply to the wrong guy or no

  • @eduuklee9453

    @eduuklee9453

    Жыл бұрын

    it is noticeable that all of it was deliberate economic warfare against russia we can see how it struggle and recover back and forth. It takes a great hit not only in the end of east germany in 1990 but also the crisis from 2008 and 2012 D;

  • @chees8067
    @chees8067 Жыл бұрын

    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

    @seed_drill7135

    Жыл бұрын

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

  • @swagkachu3784

    @swagkachu3784

    Жыл бұрын

    Well it was two wars

  • @swagkachu3784

    @swagkachu3784

    Жыл бұрын

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

  • @thefirstkingdogo1126

    @thefirstkingdogo1126

    Жыл бұрын

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

  • @cerdic6305

    @cerdic6305

    Жыл бұрын

    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

  • @ZombolicBand
    @ZombolicBand Жыл бұрын

    Germany, how induatrialized are you? -Yes.

  • @benjaminhansen4370

    @benjaminhansen4370

    Жыл бұрын

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

  • @patrickmorris3721

    @patrickmorris3721

    Жыл бұрын

    😴🤦

  • @milesmonacothesequel2294

    @milesmonacothesequel2294

    Жыл бұрын

    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

    @fwfeo

    Жыл бұрын

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

  • @samothregnilk

    @samothregnilk

    Жыл бұрын

    @@fwfeo 🤣

  • @mimamo
    @mimamo Жыл бұрын

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

  • @wilhelmbittrich88

    @wilhelmbittrich88

    Жыл бұрын

    Us Germans are just built different!

  • @baileyrob

    @baileyrob

    Жыл бұрын

    Like the Madonna of Europe 😂😂

  • @regeturbo4782

    @regeturbo4782

    Жыл бұрын

    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

    @wilhelmbittrich88

    Жыл бұрын

    @@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

    @insomnia20422

    Жыл бұрын

    Not always in a good way though lool

  • @kungfudildo3159
    @kungfudildo3159 Жыл бұрын

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

  • @AKUJIVALDO

    @AKUJIVALDO

    Жыл бұрын

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

  • @Liberty_Freedom_Brotherhood

    @Liberty_Freedom_Brotherhood

    Жыл бұрын

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

  • @inotoni6148

    @inotoni6148

    Жыл бұрын

    @@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

    @Happyduderawr

    Жыл бұрын

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

  • @MonsieurCorbusier

    @MonsieurCorbusier

    Жыл бұрын

    @@inotoni6148 and because German people are the greatest

  • @dimitaru.8408
    @dimitaru.8408 Жыл бұрын

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

  • @keiralum1797

    @keiralum1797

    Жыл бұрын

    Yeah, a traitor Grbachev started his Perestroika

  • @heinwlod3895

    @heinwlod3895

    Жыл бұрын

    @@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

    @axelotl86

    Жыл бұрын

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

  • @hanspump2510

    @hanspump2510

    Жыл бұрын

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

  • @patrickmorris3721

    @patrickmorris3721

    Жыл бұрын

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

  • @selwynrenard
    @selwynrenard Жыл бұрын

    Would love to see this as a GDP per capita.

  • @mrcaboosevg6089

    @mrcaboosevg6089

    Жыл бұрын

    GDP per capita is a pointless statistic

  • @jaroslavklima4591

    @jaroslavklima4591

    Жыл бұрын

    @@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

    @mrcaboosevg6089

    Жыл бұрын

    @@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

    @destinyrpga8118

    Жыл бұрын

    @@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

    @espvp

    Жыл бұрын

    @@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.

  • @pogo8050
    @pogo8050 Жыл бұрын

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

  • @Micha-qv5uf
    @Micha-qv5uf Жыл бұрын

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

  • @Youtubechannel-po8cz

    @Youtubechannel-po8cz

    Жыл бұрын

    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

    @Micha-qv5uf

    Жыл бұрын

    @@KZreadchannel-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

    @ryanvanderveer4263

    Жыл бұрын

    @@KZreadchannel-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

    @neb6304

    Жыл бұрын

    @@KZreadchannel-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.

  • @Litwinus

    @Litwinus

    Жыл бұрын

    @@ryanvanderveer4263 Did they give back what they stole?

  • @carterzhang2977
    @carterzhang2977 Жыл бұрын

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

  • @RankingCharts

    @RankingCharts

    Жыл бұрын

    I’m so glad you enjoy!

  • @user-iw1nw4du8x8

    @user-iw1nw4du8x8

    Жыл бұрын

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

  • @lindaliriel
    @lindaliriel Жыл бұрын

    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

    @ichbinsnicht5860

    Жыл бұрын

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

  • @lindaliriel

    @lindaliriel

    Жыл бұрын

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

  • @laus7080

    @laus7080

    Жыл бұрын

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

  • @lindaliriel

    @lindaliriel

    Жыл бұрын

    @@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

    @rollingdear2165

    Жыл бұрын

    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

  • @pynn1000
    @pynn1000 Жыл бұрын

    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

    @LoliPolice-bf7mw

    Жыл бұрын

    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

    @TigerUpperCut22

    Жыл бұрын

    appreciated

  • @Misteribel
    @Misteribel Жыл бұрын

    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

    @stijnhs

    Жыл бұрын

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

  • @rapier1954

    @rapier1954

    Жыл бұрын

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

  • @benchoflemons398

    @benchoflemons398

    Жыл бұрын

    Well, even today, economists just take a guess

  • @Tankliker

    @Tankliker

    Жыл бұрын

    @@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

    @pedrollex3308

    Жыл бұрын

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

  • @xmaniac99
    @xmaniac99 Жыл бұрын

    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

    @apb2081

    Жыл бұрын

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

  • @yournotgully

    @yournotgully

    Жыл бұрын

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

  • @yournotgully

    @yournotgully

    Жыл бұрын

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

  • @apb2081

    @apb2081

    Жыл бұрын

    @@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

    @Yoshi-wt4lg

    Жыл бұрын

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

  • @TileBitan
    @TileBitan Жыл бұрын

    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

    @TileBitan

    Жыл бұрын

    @@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

    @TheFrenchscot

    Жыл бұрын

    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

    @TileBitan

    Жыл бұрын

    @@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

    @TheFrenchscot

    Жыл бұрын

    @@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

    @maximilian6305

    Жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @rrrado1
    @rrrado1 Жыл бұрын

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

  • @forsbergZ

    @forsbergZ

    6 күн бұрын

    Ничего удивительного нет, когда против нее борется весь коллективный запад, на инфографике это прекрасно видно, и если бы вы обладали хоть каким то интеллектом у вас бы не было вопросов

  • @JesperRoos
    @JesperRoos Жыл бұрын

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

  • @johnnorthtribe

    @johnnorthtribe

    Жыл бұрын

    That surprised me considering our low population.

  • @samuelsomfan

    @samuelsomfan

    Жыл бұрын

    @@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

    @zyzzsdisciples6707

    Жыл бұрын

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

  • @steifan

    @steifan

    Жыл бұрын

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

  • @getoutim07

    @getoutim07

    Жыл бұрын

    UK stayed at a pretty decent spot the whole time

  • @Mrpickles2921
    @Mrpickles2921 Жыл бұрын

    Tchaikovsky.. great choice

  • @Mr.LeoWarren
    @Mr.LeoWarren Жыл бұрын

    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!

  • @paulchristiaens331
    @paulchristiaens331 Жыл бұрын

    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
    @smaragdwolf1 Жыл бұрын

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

  • @CanYouDigIt34
    @CanYouDigIt34 Жыл бұрын

    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

    @therealadamshort

    Жыл бұрын

    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

    @DavidJamesquoracy

    Жыл бұрын

    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

    @lukaszlublin86

    Жыл бұрын

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

  • @seaman5705

    @seaman5705

    Жыл бұрын

    ​@@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

    @RudOlf-wt3mv

    Жыл бұрын

    @@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.

  • @madbecause1654
    @madbecause1654 Жыл бұрын

    Germany is quite extraordinary in this video.

  • @NerdRoomProductions

    @NerdRoomProductions

    Жыл бұрын

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

  • @jespoketheepic
    @jespoketheepic Жыл бұрын

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

  • @ashleyk1782
    @ashleyk1782 Жыл бұрын

    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

    @RankingCharts

    Жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @tristanthamm505
    @tristanthamm505 Жыл бұрын

    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.

    @streetwind.

    Жыл бұрын

    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

    @tristanthamm505

    Жыл бұрын

    @@streetwind. Good points

  • @williammorley2401

    @williammorley2401

    Жыл бұрын

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

  • @craigstephens93

    @craigstephens93

    Жыл бұрын

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

  • @tiagomonteiro130

    @tiagomonteiro130

    Жыл бұрын

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

  • @menju32
    @menju32 Жыл бұрын

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

  • @Rockingorc

    @Rockingorc

    Жыл бұрын

    beer? where?!

  • @asgxvfhvchb46

    @asgxvfhvchb46

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Rockingorc arbeiten faule sau

  • @Rockingorc

    @Rockingorc

    Жыл бұрын

    @@asgxvfhvchb46 8h reichen pro Tag 😐

  • @filippobardazzi2080

    @filippobardazzi2080

    Жыл бұрын

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

  • @brodacx2268
    @brodacx2268 Жыл бұрын

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

  • @KK-rg1wz

    @KK-rg1wz

    Жыл бұрын

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

  • @brodacx2268

    @brodacx2268

    Жыл бұрын

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

  • @KK-rg1wz

    @KK-rg1wz

    Жыл бұрын

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

  • @vsl5455

    @vsl5455

    Жыл бұрын

    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

    @bigbadlara5304

    Жыл бұрын

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

  • @petramaas8574
    @petramaas8574 Жыл бұрын

    A brilliant visualization, thank you.

  • @MooohGX
    @MooohGX Жыл бұрын

    Germany is in a league of its own

  • @Scalpaxos
    @Scalpaxos Жыл бұрын

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

  • @ingooutes232
    @ingooutes232 Жыл бұрын

    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 !!!

  • @CrystalClearWith8BE
    @CrystalClearWith8BE Жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @antaresmaelstrom5365
    @antaresmaelstrom5365 Жыл бұрын

    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

    @monster2slayer

    Жыл бұрын

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

  • @ghaffy1
    @ghaffy1 Жыл бұрын

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

  • @occamraiser
    @occamraiser Жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @svenvogelaar8784
    @svenvogelaar8784 Жыл бұрын

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

  • @gabrielenemilie

    @gabrielenemilie

    Жыл бұрын

    @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

    @MrRedeyedJedi

    Жыл бұрын

    Yes, giant foam darts all over the place!

  • @MusicIsLegal

    @MusicIsLegal

    Жыл бұрын

    @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

    @MusicIsLegal

    Жыл бұрын

    @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

    @Rattenhoofd

    Жыл бұрын

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

  • @muskelprotz7824
    @muskelprotz7824 Жыл бұрын

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

  • @annestovgaard681
    @annestovgaard681 Жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @Gloriaimperial1
    @Gloriaimperial1 Жыл бұрын

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

  • @joexali235
    @joexali235 Жыл бұрын

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

  • @ziizee4614
    @ziizee4614 Жыл бұрын

    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.😁😁

  • @henrytopham9681
    @henrytopham9681 Жыл бұрын

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

  • @corbynite2004
    @corbynite2004 Жыл бұрын

    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

    @corbynite2004

    Жыл бұрын

    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

    @MichaelAMVM

    Жыл бұрын

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

  • @gabrielbcosta1998
    @gabrielbcosta1998 Жыл бұрын

    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

    @alexandruilea915

    Жыл бұрын

    Colonies which you no longer have.

  • @alexandruilea915

    @alexandruilea915

    Жыл бұрын

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

  • @gabrielbcosta1998

    @gabrielbcosta1998

    Жыл бұрын

    @@alexandruilea915 I forgot this very very small detail 😅

  • @ayumisanyuki7116
    @ayumisanyuki7116 Жыл бұрын

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

  • @MrKruger88
    @MrKruger88 Жыл бұрын

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

  • @TOFKAS01
    @TOFKAS01 Жыл бұрын

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

  • @diazinth

    @diazinth

    Жыл бұрын

    defenestration ^,^

  • @kzwize
    @kzwize Жыл бұрын

    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?

  • @Snowwie88
    @Snowwie88 Жыл бұрын

    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

    @gianurwiler5098

    8 ай бұрын

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

  • @jonb77
    @jonb77 Жыл бұрын

    That was very clever and also very interesting.

  • @EmptyNonsens
    @EmptyNonsens Жыл бұрын

    I would love to see one with GDP per Capita

  • @leleuvulliez
    @leleuvulliez Жыл бұрын

    Where you get data from?

  • @StephanBuchin
    @StephanBuchin Жыл бұрын

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

  • @nicholasroberts6954
    @nicholasroberts6954 Жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @Rampart.X
    @Rampart.X Жыл бұрын

    Brilliant. And the music was awesome

  • @Romanball5677
    @Romanball5677 Жыл бұрын

    Please do country manifacturing comparison

  • @jazzyb9488
    @jazzyb9488 Жыл бұрын

    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

    @annarichardson7794

    Жыл бұрын

    "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

    @VanillaMacaron551

    Жыл бұрын

    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

    @VanillaMacaron551

    Жыл бұрын

    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

    @AdamPalomino

    Жыл бұрын

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

  • @dulls8475

    @dulls8475

    Жыл бұрын

    @@VanillaMacaron551 Ah well keep hoping.

  • @Nat3YT
    @Nat3YT Жыл бұрын

    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!

  • @samis6553
    @samis6553 Жыл бұрын

    At first I was very amazed that Finland had such great GDP in 1944 and 1945 but then it hit me...

  • @Flem100DK

    @Flem100DK

    Жыл бұрын

    Because Germany sent some pocket money right?

  • @ClashDashRoar

    @ClashDashRoar

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Flem100DK there werent so many countries then...

  • @Valivali94
    @Valivali94 Жыл бұрын

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

  • @epjarvis1285

    @epjarvis1285

    Жыл бұрын

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

  • @uli8537
    @uli8537 Жыл бұрын

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

  • @stevenfennell7020

    @stevenfennell7020

    Жыл бұрын

    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

    @checkcommentsfirst3335

    Жыл бұрын

    @@stevenfennell7020 per capita

  • @13neworld

    @13neworld

    Жыл бұрын

    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

    @stevenfennell7020

    Жыл бұрын

    @@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

    @13neworld

    Жыл бұрын

    @@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. :)

  • @keithbrierley710
    @keithbrierley710 Жыл бұрын

    Thank you very well done

  • @aljoschalong625
    @aljoschalong625 Жыл бұрын

    Very interesting and great visualization. 👍

  • @JustSomeTommy
    @JustSomeTommy Жыл бұрын

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

  • @rsnankivell1962
    @rsnankivell1962 Жыл бұрын

    The world doesn’t change that easily. Obviously, over the last few centuries, the same countries have always been in the top 10 European by GDP ...

  • @ardakolimsky7107

    @ardakolimsky7107

    Жыл бұрын

    And that conclusion is exactly why GDP is a useless metric for measuring change.

  • @ch33rfulness
    @ch33rfulness Жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @A.Dude.
    @A.Dude. Жыл бұрын

    Excellent video!

  • @leonpascar9676
    @leonpascar9676 Жыл бұрын

    Amazing to see the relative performance of Russia/USSR.

  • @wilteduk007
    @wilteduk007 Жыл бұрын

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

  • @ahemenidov1900

    @ahemenidov1900

    Жыл бұрын

    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

    @expatalan6511

    Жыл бұрын

    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

    @ahemenidov1900

    Жыл бұрын

    @@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

    @rmanpojo8485

    Жыл бұрын

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

  • @subsonikk101

    @subsonikk101

    Жыл бұрын

    @@expatalan6511coping

  • @Philip-1
    @Philip-1 Жыл бұрын

    *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. 👍

  • @adrianwerum9660
    @adrianwerum9660 Жыл бұрын

    very interesting ! Thanks !!

  • @daisuke6072
    @daisuke6072 Жыл бұрын

    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

    @williammorley2401

    Жыл бұрын

    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!.

  • @somersetfan1
    @somersetfan1 Жыл бұрын

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

  • @tooyoungtobeold8756
    @tooyoungtobeold8756 Жыл бұрын

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

  • @skuchi9
    @skuchi9 Жыл бұрын

    Great video, as usual!

  • @RankingCharts

    @RankingCharts

    Жыл бұрын

    Thank you, as usual!

  • @jakobfriedrich5117
    @jakobfriedrich5117 Жыл бұрын

    Just fyi "Nazi Germany" is not the name of the State of Germany from 1933-1945. It was called Deutsches Reich. Calling it Nazi Germany is like calling the Soviet Union Communist Russia

  • @PaulDavies4
    @PaulDavies4 Жыл бұрын

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

  • @PotatoSalad614

    @PotatoSalad614

    Жыл бұрын

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

  • @gustaaf1892
    @gustaaf1892 Жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @garethnoble11
    @garethnoble11 Жыл бұрын

    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-
    @staffan- Жыл бұрын

    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

    @filippetrovic845

    Жыл бұрын

    Even in 2014 their economy got destroyed.

  • @user-sy2jy1si8f

    @user-sy2jy1si8f

    Жыл бұрын

    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

    @noid717

    Жыл бұрын

    @@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

    @user-sy2jy1si8f

    Жыл бұрын

    @@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

    @keiralum1797

    Жыл бұрын

    @@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.

  • @MB-wm8nr
    @MB-wm8nr Жыл бұрын

    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

    @iactas7892

    Жыл бұрын

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

  • @siepmans

    @siepmans

    Жыл бұрын

    Big population= large gdp

  • @Pingopalla

    @Pingopalla

    Жыл бұрын

    @@iactas7892 stop hating countries on KZread.

  • @MB-wm8nr

    @MB-wm8nr

    Жыл бұрын

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

  • @seed_drill7135

    @seed_drill7135

    Жыл бұрын

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

  • @mitrakeen1780
    @mitrakeen1780 Жыл бұрын

    I know it might sound strange, but what does gdp mean for USSR on this graph?

  • @marcuswernersson332
    @marcuswernersson332 Жыл бұрын

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

  • @holsson7958

    @holsson7958

    Жыл бұрын

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

  • @MrEdrftgyuji
    @MrEdrftgyuji Жыл бұрын

    Interesting seeing the absolute scale of currency devaluation that has happened over the past 100+ years.

  • @Maddinhpws

    @Maddinhpws

    Жыл бұрын

    It isnt necessarily just devaluation. For example. The production of goods per worker in Germany is 5 times as much now than it was 40-50 years ago.

  • @Gamingman1945
    @Gamingman1945 Жыл бұрын

    Germany is like Spiderman, they always get back up.

  • @andrewphilip3308
    @andrewphilip3308 Жыл бұрын

    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 ??

  • @skiry_7207
    @skiry_7207 Жыл бұрын

    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?

  • @RGNRK-rm1eq
    @RGNRK-rm1eq Жыл бұрын

    This clearly shows the damage of the complete diplomatic and economic isolation spain suffered after Franco took power, had the civil war not happened, Spain could easily be on pair with Italy

  • @albi_82

    @albi_82

    Жыл бұрын

    Spain is 30% less populated than Italy. At this condition, cannot be pair with Italy.

  • @RGNRK-rm1eq

    @RGNRK-rm1eq

    Жыл бұрын

    @@albi_82 I meant per capita

  • @RGNRK-rm1eq

    @RGNRK-rm1eq

    Жыл бұрын

    @euskoferre But italy was part of the Marshall plan from the start, and didn't spend decades forcefully isolated from the world

  • @aquatix1234
    @aquatix1234 Жыл бұрын

    Netherlands rly doing great for such a small country.

  • @CheesyLittleMouse

    @CheesyLittleMouse

    Жыл бұрын

    Small and overpopulated

  • @Vincrand

    @Vincrand

    Жыл бұрын

    In the timelaps of this video most similar nations (Belgium, Switzerland and the Nordic countries) doubled their population. In the same time the Netherlands more than tripled their population.

  • @marcbruggeman1851
    @marcbruggeman1851 Жыл бұрын

    History in numbers !, really interesting

  • @th3_ph4ntomreborn31
    @th3_ph4ntomreborn31 Жыл бұрын

    I find interesting how the top 5 countries are almost always the same but in different order

  • @Luboman411
    @Luboman411 Жыл бұрын

    Ahhhh...the 1980s and early 1990s, when Italy beat out the UK in the size of its economy, and then the Soviet Union. What the hell happened to Italy???

  • @blede8649

    @blede8649

    Жыл бұрын

    Crisis, crisis, and more crisis. I was born in 1988, I don't remember a time when there wasn't talk of economic crises of some kind. Some times were more severe than others, but it was constant. That's what happens when you base your entire economy on unlimited borrowing, "who cares, that's Future Italy's problem" (government bonds paid interests of 15 % in the early 80s, and they were considered good years, my grandfather made bank with this). Come the 90s, Future Italy became Present Italy, and now we have to deal with this debt.

  • @seed_drill7135

    @seed_drill7135

    Жыл бұрын

    From a foreign perspective, during Italy's heyday of the 60's and 70's you were known for toys for the rich and affordable product for the proles. Now you're only known for toys for the rich.

  • @francisdrake7060

    @francisdrake7060

    Жыл бұрын

    @@seed_drill7135 That's a fair point of view but not entirely true.

  • @spaniardsrmoors6817

    @spaniardsrmoors6817

    Жыл бұрын

    It's still a top 10 economy and military, plus 2008 and COVID hit it especially hard.

  • @Newworldman66

    @Newworldman66

    Жыл бұрын

    @@seed_drill7135 Still very well known for white goods.

  • @enilrashenilrash8888
    @enilrashenilrash8888 Жыл бұрын

    Remember Guys: A high GDP doesnt mean That the people in the Country are rich.

  • @xXxDEMANJENIYAxXx

    @xXxDEMANJENIYAxXx

    Жыл бұрын

    But more stable

  • @AFT_05G

    @AFT_05G

    Жыл бұрын

    Germany is rich

  • @enilrashenilrash8888

    @enilrashenilrash8888

    Жыл бұрын

    @@AFT_05G You Call 30% Children Poverty, More then 70% Elderly Poverty, More then 60% People That are poor according to their earnings, Rich? Wtf is wrong with you 😂 The Industrie and huge companies are Rich - Germans are not.

  • @Njerimebanane

    @Njerimebanane

    Жыл бұрын

    @@enilrashenilrash8888 People here think they are poor but most "poor" people here can afford vacations, expensive clothes and good phones. Poor is defined different in other countrys.

  • @1363behrouz
    @1363behrouz Жыл бұрын

    brilliant content thx

  • @listigerlurch1
    @listigerlurch1 Жыл бұрын

    Every other sport: Lets stand behind this railing. Basketballfans: I need to smell their sweat!