Wartime Change in GDP

Each country's gross domestic product (GDP) is shown as a percentage of its GDP in 1913.

This line graph shows the growth domestic product (GDP) trends in Austria, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States during World War I. Each country's GDP is shown as a percentage of its GDP in 1913.

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Source: Maddison Project Database via "The Economics of World War I" by Stephen Broadberry and Mark Harrison, Cambridge University Press, 2005.Get the data