How Global Economic Power Shifted (1980–2025)

[The Notorious SLAV]

Two graphs for this one, one with data points from 1980, 2000 and 2025:


View: https://www.reddit.com/r/Infographics/comments/1q1k4xh/how_global_economic_power_shifted_19802025/


And another a simpler one, with 1980 and 2025 data points:

Ranked: The World’s Top Economies in 1980 vs. 2025

Several emerging markets climbed the rankings over time.

www.visualcapitalist.com

This also shows why Japan still has a lot of "ultra-modern country" aura to it, stereotypes survive for decades and it was the world's second-biggest economy for 40 years.

 

[Grodd]

Interesting

 

[Hikicripple]

Two graphs for this one, one with data points from 1980, 2000 and 2025:


View: https://www.reddit.com/r/Infographics/comments/1q1k4xh/how_global_economic_power_shifted_19802025/


And another a simpler one, with 1980 and 2025 data points:

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Ranked: The World’s Top Economies in 1980 vs. 2025

Several emerging markets climbed the rankings over time.

www.visualcapitalist.com

This also shows why Japan still has a lot of "ultra-modern country" aura to it, stereotypes survive for decades and it was the world's second-biggest economy for 40 years.

Ok

 

[endoftheskies]

Two graphs for this one, one with data points from 1980, 2000 and 2025:


View: https://www.reddit.com/r/Infographics/comments/1q1k4xh/how_global_economic_power_shifted_19802025/


And another a simpler one, with 1980 and 2025 data points:

View attachment 1665017

Ranked: The World’s Top Economies in 1980 vs. 2025

Several emerging markets climbed the rankings over time.

www.visualcapitalist.com

This also shows why Japan still has a lot of "ultra-modern country" aura to it, stereotypes survive for decades and it was the world's second-biggest economy for 40 years.

Incredible.

 

[autisticsoy]

thought uk was bad then theres canada

 

[GeckoBus]

Two graphs for this one, one with data points from 1980, 2000 and 2025:


View: https://www.reddit.com/r/Infographics/comments/1q1k4xh/how_global_economic_power_shifted_19802025/


And another a simpler one, with 1980 and 2025 data points:

View attachment 1665017

Ranked: The World’s Top Economies in 1980 vs. 2025

Several emerging markets climbed the rankings over time.

www.visualcapitalist.com

This also shows why Japan still has a lot of "ultra-modern country" aura to it, stereotypes survive for decades and it was the world's second-biggest economy for 40 years.

interesting, i was just bored and read the wikipedia page for guilds, because I was wondering when guilds stopped being a thing. Apparently they were outlawed only in the late 18th century. Well, what do we find on the same page:

Women's Participation​

Women's participation in medieval guilds was diverse and often constrained: while guild membership granted economic and social opportunities, most craft and trade guilds were male-dominated, typically allowing women to enter only through marriage or as widows or daughters of masters and generally excluding them from guild offices.[14]

Nonetheless, evidence from England and the Continent shows that women did engage widely in guild life—London silkwomen could inherit property and run businesses, and Étienne Boileau’s Livre des métiers records several Parisian guilds as female monopolies, with others open to women such as surgeons and glass-blowers.[15] In Rouen women had participated as full-fledged masters in 7 of the city's 112 guilds since the 13th century.[16] In cities like Rouen and Cologne, women held full master status in select guilds and dominated certain trades, though restrictions persisted, especially in medical guilds, where religious and secular authorities often opposed female practitioners.[17][18]

Guild - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Trident]

so, Iran in 1980 was more economically powerful than entire Soviet Union?

 

[The Notorious SLAV]

interesting, i was just bored and read the wikipedia page for guilds, because I was wondering when guilds stopped being a thing. Apparently they were outlawed only in the late 18th century. Well, what do we find on the same page:

Guild - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Also, it's always the same on topics like this, as the part you've quoted shows. They'll say that there were "barriers" and "opposition" to female participation, but never show you any explicit bans or anything else. They'll say that only wives and daughters could join, but never even think of comparing it to how many people in the present only get jobs due to networking and personal/family connections, to show how different the two eras actually might be. Or even compare it to how men in the same times moved around professions and how many just followed their fathers. Neither, after pointing out that guilds were overwhelmingly male, do they even entertain the possibility that self-selection might've played a role here, and that the same reason why a lot of professions in the current era are 90%+ male would also be seen in the past, where uncomfortable and physically-intensive labor was much more common.

so, Iran in 1980 was more economically powerful than entire Soviet Union?

USSR's not represented on that chart due to its GDP being just an experts' guess, they measured their economy using a different system and outsiders couldn't really check it. Apparently, according to most guesses, they might've actually been slightly ahead of Japan in total terms.