This is common knowledge. Google the numbers. I actually tried to include a graphic that I saw once but I was not able to track it down anymore. I was basically a world map with a ball&#x2F;point that showed movement of world GDP. This ball was far on the east before the industrial revolution since much more people lived in Asia than in Europe and they also had more efficient agriculture. With America becoming populated mainly by European and with the industrial revolution the percent of GDP product by the Western world shifted to the west. At one point this trend decelerated, then stopped, then reversed and then accelerated (towards the east). This should not come as a surprise.<p>Actually, the picture was similar (but better designed) to this one:
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