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Really? I thought that happened way after WWI. The UK economy back then had a gazillion of colonies to sustain it.

• sillyquiet 4y ago
  No OP's correct, the US surpassed the UK both in population and in GDP sometime around the middle of the 19th century.
  • ghaff 4y ago
    I think the point is that looking at the UK in a vacuum, outside the context of colonies like India, Kenya, Singapore, etc., is probably misleading.
  • fmajid 4y ago
    The US overtook the UK in 1860, but overtaking the entire British Empire was closer to 1900.