RE: UK Brexit, questions from an American
June 25, 2016 at 5:02 am
(This post was last modified: June 25, 2016 at 5:06 am by Homeless Nutter.)
(June 25, 2016 at 3:33 am)SofaKingHigh Wrote: I don't want to burst your bubble here Ben, but we were the 5th largest economy in the world in 1973. Feel free to check yourself. We have actually dropped as low as 7th very recently.[...]
I'm sorry, but where did you get those numbers? Because I did check and it doesn't appear to be true. Britain's currently listed as world's 5th largest economy (by GDP), behind USA, China, Japan and Germany.
http://money.cnn.com/news/economy/world_economies_gdp/
On the other hand in 1973, UK GDP was behind those of: USA, USSR, Japan, China, Germany and France, so - 7th.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_re..._GDP_(PPP)
Would you care to provide your sources?
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