Over 2000 years of economic history, in one chart

[friendly_troll96]

You can always try cryosleep, take a long freezing hibernation and wake up in 80 years from now.
Send us a message to heaven whether PDF still exists will ya and mostly what China and India look like?

Both cryosleep and hibernation are out of the question... so yeah.
Apparently when you're in the heaven you couldn't care less about America.

 

[terranMarine]

Both cryosleep and hibernation are out of the question... so yeah.
Apparently when you're in the heaven you couldn't care less about America.

Because America is already a developed country with crumbling infrastructure. 80 years from now won't be any different, most likely even worse infra than today. While China and India are totally different story ofcos. We are developing countries so who would care what America looks like in 2100

 

[friendly_troll96]

Because America is already a developed country with crumbling infrastructure. 80 years from now won't be any different, most likely even worse infra than today. While China and India are totally different story ofcos. We are developing countries so who would care what America looks like in 2100

Okay. I'll tell you about America anyway.

 

[Jlaw]

I too am puzzled why India's GDP in the past was that big.

Especially when there was no India prior to 1947.

 

[ashok mourya]

Especially when there was no India prior to 1947.

Is there any China prior to 1912? Troll logic...good to see Chinese grow at 87% since 2010..we Indians trying to achieve our world economic stage slowly and sustainable way.

 

[Jlaw]

Is there any China prior to 1912? Troll logic...good to see Chinese grow at 87% since 2010..we Indians trying to achieve our world economic stage slowly and sustainable way.

You mad bro? Tell that to your white Masters who named your country.

 

[ashok mourya]

You mad bro? Tell that to your white Masters who named your country.

Lol..read history..before Christ's Greeks called it indik ,persians called it Hindustan..show me a reference about China in that period..original China is the area bounded between great wall of China...area out side the wall is not China....

 

[chatterjee]

Before the british came to loot us their was no country called India. That was indian subcontinent which have 24% of world's total gdp (1st or 2nd in the world) in which more than 50% was from Bengal. Bengal was the economic powerhouse and Dhaka region was the wealthiest in the whole subcontinent.so bharatis don't be so proud of this. The only one who can be proud about this are Bangladeshis

 

[ashok mourya]

Indica (Ctesias)
This article is about the book on India written by Ctesias. For other uses, see Indica (disambiguation).
Indica (Greek: Ἰνδικά Indika) is the name of a book by the classical Greekphysician Ctesias purporting to describe Sindh. Written in the fifth century BC, it is the first known Greek reference to that distant land. Ctesias was the court physician to king Artaxerxes II of Persia, and the book is not based on his own experiences, but on stories brought to Persia by traders, along the Silk Road from Serica, a land north of Chinaand India where domesticated silk originated.


Contents

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indica_(Ctesias)

 

[AUSTERLITZ]

I too am puzzled why India's GDP in the past was that big.

Because you can't accept the fact that India is as old and great a civilization as the chinese,and was in the golden period a hub of world manufacturing -particularly textiles,jewellery and high quality steel,as well as diamonds and spices.Most chinese posters(not all) here are driven by middle kingdom mentality which presupposes china as the one great civilization of asia and the rest,barbarians.

 

[my2cents]

I too am puzzled why India's GDP in the past was that big.

I am assuming GDP in olden times was directly correlated to population and trade. China and India were most populated countries even back then.

 

[OnlyTheTruth]

GDP before industrialization was directly proportional to a country's landmass, more specifically the percentage of arable land upon which the agricultural output depended.

 

[AndrewJin]

You mad bro? Tell that to your white Masters who named your country.

India was created by british as a country.....
We have united Central Government through out history....
We have county governments, province governments, and central governments for several thousand years.
We have a national exam system to select officers around China since Sui Dynasty.

They only have a bunch of small kingdoms and small dynasties....
If they had a centralised government in history, they would not use English as the lingua franca today.

 

[ashok mourya]

India was created by british as a country.....
We have united Central Government through out history....
We have county governments, province governments, and central governments for several thousand years.
We have a national exam system to select officers around China since Sui Dynasty.

They only have a bunch of small kingdoms and small dynasties....
If they had a centralized government in history, they would not use English as the lingua franca today.

only the central dynasties bounded by great wall of china..not the entire china of today....mongol kindom cannot be termed as Chinese continuous history kingdom

1200 AD

Mongol dynasty in 1300 AD

1400 AD

 

[Mista]

These are just estimates. In the past before the Industrial Revolution, most of the world's economic output is largely based on agriculture. There's not much difference in GDP per capita unlike in today's knowledge economy. Therefore economies with larger population and arable land area are estimated to be bigger. Eg; Indian subcontinent and China proper.

Even the estimates look flawed to me.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_regions_by_past_GDP_(PPP)_per_capita

They put GDP per capita of Italy (Rome) twice of China and India. Meaning they are much more advanced. Really?

The Chinese had a unified monetary, measurement system, roads and canals to facilitate trade. Uniform writing and meritocratic bureaucracy to produce able administrators over the empire. Not to mention the invention of paper and printing to spread knowledge among the masses as well as banknotes for trade. What did Rome had in those times to justify a 2x GDP per capita of the Chinese?

only the central dynasties bounded by great wall of china..not the entire china of today....mongol kindom cannot be termed as Chinese continuous history kingdom

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_regions_by_past_GDP_(PPP)#Empires

Look at the estimates used. China included only legitimate Chinese dynasties and not based on today's Chinese territory. Not like the Mongols will add much anyway. They are nomads and don't produce much agriculture or literature.

The Indian estimates used includes today's Pakistan and Bangladesh. They added up all the small kingdoms. Basically the Indian subcontinent.