A stunning chart that shows the entire economic history of the world's most powerful countries over the past 2,000 years has been released by investment bank JP Morgan. Viewed as a whole ...

But here it is: The economic history of the world going back to Year 1 showing ... So, one way to read the graph, very broadly speaking, is that everything to the left of 1800 is an approximation ...

The graph above is an economic history of the world, after 1 AD, from a research letter written by Michael Cembalest, chairman of market and investment strategy at JP Morgan. I posted it yesterday ...

Now, this is a chart of real GDP rather than GDP per capita, and a lot of what’s going on here is a massive increase in the world’s population. But that’s not all that’s happening.

Here's a fantastic chart that basically explains all of economic history. It was tweeted out ... Then you have the developed world middle class, which has seen almost no real income growth over ...

In recent times, his charts have been used to tell the fascinating story of how the share of India and China in world GDP used to be very high till about 1600 AD, but started declining thereafter ...

Tucked away in its latest World Economic Outlook is an take on high-debt-to-GDP incidents. It’s a treat for fans of economic history ... (click here for the full graph) There are a few stand ...

The chart above from The Economist displays annual world GDP growth and the annual growth in the amount of cargo passing through the Suez Canal in Egypt, representing about 8% of the total world ...