As Shvets writes, on a per capita basis, China was the wealthiest part of the world from 1200 to the 1300s — aside from Italy. Even as late as the 1600s it was roughly on par with the Brits. After that, however, the GDP per capita relative to Britain declined all the way up to the 1970s, when it was below 10% of the British standard of living. In about 1990, it starts to pick up again, but it has yet to recover to levels seen from 1200 to 1600.
Interestingly, Japan also followed a downward trajectory from 1200 to the 1950s — when its GDP per capita was about 28% of the UK's following its defeat in World War II. But unlike in China, GDP per capita in Japan bounced back quickly, and its GDP per capita from 1970 to today is roughly comparable to Britain's.
One other thing that stands out is that while the size of China's economy today rivals the US's, its GDP per capita is still much lower. At the same time, while Japan's share of the global economy is significantly smaller than those of both the US and China, its GDP per capita is roughly on par with the UK's — and far greater than China's.
Life expectancy of bottom 20 % in the US has actually DECLINED since 1980 https://www.ft.com/content/80a76f38-e3be-11e6-8405-9e5580d6e5fb …
Staggering disparity of health spending in US: 50 % concentrated on top 5 %, whereas bottom half spend 3 % of total https://www.ft.com/content/80a76f38-e3be-11e6-8405-9e5580d6e5fb …
Marvellous #vintage (1851) #infographic compares length of #rivers and size of lakes. http://ow.ly/R3n1308Z4OM
40 years of personal computing with addition of Raspberry Pi, Chromebooks and Android for 2016 Thanks to those who contributed data.
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Schumpeter's creative destruction at work.
#Map shows Nobel Prize winners by global region. Western Europe before North America. http://ow.ly/Zsrq309mk8m
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Worth remembering: we are living better than ever before. Prime example - number of people in extreme poverty.
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View selected causes of death and population dynamics for Sri Lanka. Health Data used is WHO, World Bank and the United Nations for population.
TOP 50 CAUSES OF DEATH | Rate | World Rank | |
1. | Coronary Heart Disease | 126.95 | 73 |
2. | Stroke | 73.82 | 110 |
3. | Diabetes Mellitus | 49.34 | 40 |
4. | Suicide | 34.64 | 1 |
5. | Asthma | 32.23 | 2 |
6. | Influenza and Pneumonia | 24.00 | 115 |
7. | Kidney Disease | 22.26 | 48 |
8. | Lung Disease | 21.58 | 99 |
9. | Liver Disease | 21.18 | 67 |
10. | Alzheimers/Dementia | 18.69 | 85 |
11. | Road Traffic Accidents | 16.33 | 98 |
12. | Hypertension | 10.13 | 111 |
13. | Breast Cancer | 9.87 | 156 |
14. | Falls | 9.61 | 48 |
15. | Other Injuries | 8.91 | 82 |
16. | Oral Cancer | 7.81 | 12 |
17. | Congenital Anomalies | 6.84 | 118 |
18. | Drownings | 6.41 | 52 |
19. | Lung Cancers | 5.90 | 130 |
20. | Oesophagus Cancer | 5.15 | 38 |
21. | Tuberculosis | 5.06 | 92 |
22. | Stomach Cancer | 5.05 | 107 |
23. | Cervical Cancer | 4.82 | 128 |
24. | Inflammatory/Heart | 4.61 | 118 |
25. | Low Birth Weight | 3.60 | 139 |
26. | Leukemia | 3.59 | 106 |
27. | Ovary Cancer | 3.58 | 123 |
28. | Violence | 3.15 | 122 |
29. | Liver Cancer | 3.11 | 157 |
30. | Lymphomas | 2.67 | 146 |
31. | Endocrine Disorders | 2.62 | 149 |
32. | Diarrhoeal diseases | 2.59 | 107 |
33. | Fires | 2.37 | 75 |
34. | Meningitis | 2.28 | 70 |
35. | Prostate Cancer | 2.08 | 175 |
36. | Colon-Rectum Cancers | 1.97 | 180 |
37. | Rheumatic Heart Disease | 1.94 | 92 |
38. | Epilepsy | 1.90 | 81 |
39. | Encephalitis | 1.74 | 24 |
40. | Alcohol | 1.40 | 104 |
41. | Birth Trauma | 1.35 | 129 |
42. | Dengue | 1.19 | 7 |
43. | Skin Cancers | 0.93 | 128 |
44. | Bladder Cancer | 0.91 | 160 |
45. | Drug Use | 0.83 | 125 |
46. | Malnutrition | 0.73 | 114 |
47. | Pancreas Cancer | 0.66 | 174 |
48. | HIV/AIDS | 0.61 | 128 |
49. | Maternal Conditions | 0.51 | 113 |
50. | Peptic Ulcer Disease | 0.49 | 174 |