What is developed? Internationally accepted criteria for determining the total but not per capita, the standard 1995 U.S. dollars per capita GDP8000 2005 is raised to 1 million. At present, was identified as the developed countries more than 40 countries. Other more than 150 countries, collectively referred to as developing countries; of which less than 765 U.S. dollars per capita GDP of 49 countries, but also by the United Nations as “least developed countries.”
Chinese people have a special feeling on the GDP, because GDP, reflecting a country’s general economic strength. The power is the dream of the Chinese people a hundred years. Former director of the Madison OECD economies, published “China’s long-term economic performance,” a book for a long time China’s GDP has an estimate. In order to minimize factors such as exchange rates and inflation statistics real impact of the economic scale, to the calculation of purchasing power parity, and create “in 1990 international dollars” as a measure of total economic output and per capita income of the unit.
According to Maddison’s estimates, from the 17th century to early 19th century, China’s economic performance very well. From 1700 to 1820, China’s GDP ranking in the world. 1820 China’s GDP accounted for 28.7% of the world’s GDP, much higher than the share of UK GDP share of 5.2% and 3.1% of Japan’s share of GDP; An American historian Paul Kennedy in “rise and fall of great powers,” a book available digital, 1830, China’s share of world manufacturing output, manufacturing output in 29.8%, slightly lower than the 34.2% share of the whole of Europe but much higher than the United Kingdom and Japan, and 2.8, respectively 9.5% share% share.
