Where were you in 1960?

A Bloomberrg in Brief story led me to the following graph. The story is irrelevant to me and, probably, most or all of my readers, but the graph was a stunner. I was unable to linkto te Bloomberg graph, but I found one very like it:




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This is overall world trade. And this is population, same period:










Lots more production.

(Trade from unctad.org, population from foresight.org.)