拜中國的大一統和一戰前的殖民狀況,百年前的中國真的是個龐然大物,但是大而不強。
1. 早在 1820 年,中國是迄今為止世界上最大的經濟體。
2. 兩個世紀前,中國的GDP是當時世界第二大經濟體印度的兩倍。
3. 1820 年,中國的經濟規模是歐洲最大經濟體英國的六倍,幾乎是剛剛起步的美國 GDP 的 20 倍。
4、按人均計算,1820年中國GDP達到世界平均水平的84%。
5. 到 1870 年,中國的人均 GDP 下降了三分之一——僅為世界平均水平的 60%。
6. 中國經濟在 19 世紀下半葉的衰退部分是由於鴉片戰爭和太平天國運動後中國農田遭到破壞。
7. 隨著西方國家從工業革命中變得更加富有,中國在 19 世紀的經濟上也失去了優勢。
8. 就在 1980 年,中國人均 GDP 僅相當於世界平均水平的 24%。
9. 70 年代後期,鄧小平開始實施以市場為基礎的改革,這將導致中國的經濟現代化。
10. 經過二十年的經濟高速增長,2000 年中國人均 GDP 恢複到世界平均水平的 56%,接近 1870 年的水平。
11. 經過三十年的經濟改革,到2010年中國人均GDP相當於世界平均水平的103%。
結果 2014 年 10 月,中國超過美國成為世界最大的經濟體。
數據來源:格羅寧根大學麥迪遜項目。 全球主義研究中心的分析。
1. Back in 1820, China was by far the world’s largest economy.
2. Two centuries ago, China’s GDP was twice that of India’s, the world’s second-largest economy at the time.
3. In 1820, China’s economy was six times as large as Britain’s, the largest economy in Europe — and almost 20 times the GDP of the still-fledgling United States.
4. On a per capita basis, China’s GDP in 1820 reached 84% of the global average.
5. By 1870, China’s per capita GDP had fallen by one third — to just 60% of the world average.
6. China’s economic decline in the second half of the 19th century was, in part, the result of the devastation of China’s agricultural lands following the Opium Wars and the Taiping Rebellion.
7. China also lost ground economically in the 19th century as Western nations grew wealthier from the Industrial Revolution.
8. As recently as 1980, China’s per capita GDP was equal to just 24% of the world average.
9. In the late 1970s, Deng Xiaoping began to implement market-based reforms that would lead to China’s economic modernization.
10. After two decades of rapid economic growth, China’s per capita GDP in 2000 was back up to 56% of the global average, almost where it stood in 1870.
11. After three decades of economic reforms, by 2010 China’s per capita GDP was equal to 103% of the global average.
The UpshotIn October 2014, China overtook the United States as the world’s largest economy.
Data source: Maddison Project, University of Groningen. Analysis by The Globalist Research Center.