All the charts that show this are dealing in percentage of world GDP. This is really a meaningless statistic, and by itself doesn't show anything one way or th

All the charts that show this are dealing in percentage of world GDP. This is really a meaningless statistic, and by itself doesn't show anything one way or the other about colonialism. Until the beginning of the industrial revolution, China and India were always 1 & 2 in GDP, because they were 1 & 2 in population. The biggest innovation of the Industrial Revolution was decoupling production from population. Est. world GDP, 1750: $128 billion - India @ ~22% = $28 billion Est. world GDP, 1950: $4 trillion - India @ ~ 4% = $163 billion [1] https://infogr.am/Share-of-world-GDP-throughout-history https://infogr.am/Share-of-world-GDP-throughout-history [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gross_world_product https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gross_world_product