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[Pyro as Bill]

Pemalite said:

Pyro as Bill said:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post%E2%80%93World_War_II_economic_expansion

The USA came out of it rather well, but they didn't loose 10's of millions of people like most of Europe... They didn't have all their production/factories bombed or wiped out. - Europe/United Kingdom and other areas after WW2 saw economic collapses of 70% or more.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aftermath_of_World_War_II#Economic_aftermath

However by the end of the 1950's most economies had bounced back.

The War caused the 70% collapse and was one long 6 year depression.
The period after the War is literally referred to as the Golden Age of Capitalism because of the unprecedented levels of growth.
The depopulation during the War didn't cause a post-war depression. It did the complete opposite.

The British Empire went from controlling 23% of the worlds population and now holds a paltry 0.87% of the worlds comparative population. - It lost tons of controlled states/territories/dependencies as well, Hong Kong is a fairly significant one for example.

Good. Empires are expensive. We became richer than ever after 'losing' the Empire.
Hong Kong didn't leave until 1997 and they'd have stayed if they'd had the choice or China agreed to extend the lease.

Empire - noun
1.an extensive group of states or countries ruled over by a single monarch......
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth_realm

151m/7700m = ~2% of the world's population and still has over half the territory it did at it's peak and everybody's pretty chill about it instead of rebelling all the time.