event_note History Timeline
1913 - 2016
GDP over the years
This info-graphic shows Myanmar's per capita GDP relative to India and China over the past hundred years. GDP is the market value of everything produced in a country over a given year. GDP per capita is a very rough measure of a county's wealth. As is evident in this graphic, Myanmar's per capita GDP stood ahead of both India and China in the 1930s and was ahead of China until the 1960s. It is now behind both but especially far behind China especially.