Top economies by year (Video)

[Mnementh]

Conina said:

Mnementh said:

Yeah, I think the maker of the video had incomplete datasets. Germany jumping in at second place shows that clearly, and Soviet Union should as you point out at least for some time have inhabited the TOP 10.

Yeah, we know the GDP of 1970 ($220 billion) and the annual growth of the decade before 1970... it ain't THAT hard to calculate the GPD of 1961 - 1969 with that data:

https://countryeconomy.com/gdp/germany?year=1970

Currency exchange rates aside, it should be these numbers for 1961 - 1969:

That should put Germany's rank above France and UK in the Sixties and on third place below USA and the Soviet union in that decade (if the data of the other countries is correct).

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Thanks for your calculation. It is not completely correct, as germans GDP is measured (at that time) in DM (Deutsche Mark), not US-dollar. But I don't expect strong currency fluctuations in that time frame between dollar and DM, therefore it should be in the right ballpark.

And the song is always funny.