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by alexitorg
2038 days ago
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It seams India was ahead for most of the past two millennia.
Population
CHINA INDIA
1AD 59.6M 75.0M
1000AD 59.0M 75.0M
1600AD 160.0M 135.0M
1700AD 138.0M 165.0M
1820AD 318.0M 209.0M Estimated Real GDP per capita in 2011 USD (cgdppc in source)
Selection of roughly comparable dates (note no chinese GDP per capita estimates from before 1661).
CHINA INDIA
1600s $940(1661) $1228(1228)
1700s $686(1766) $1103(1750)
1820s $741(1820) $ 968(1821)
1900 $840 $1131
1950 $757 $1417
1980 $1690 $1143
2000 $4071 $2003 I wouldn't take this as gospel. These are estimates put together from patchy historical sources and probably widely innacurate. But it seems to indicate that India was ahead in population for much of the last two thousand years. And ahead of China in GDP per capita for most of the past 400 years. Source Maddison project, University of Gronigen
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