By 1910 Germany surpassed both but was still less wealthy than the British empire

it began with the textile industry

new england was the first industrialized region and it took a while for it to spread

In 1920 Germany dropped back below for obvious reasons

If the UK kept India, Africa and the middle east they'd own the worlds oil and everything would be made in India instead of China, the biggest ball dropped in history and the cherry on the cake is that the anti colonialists where communists going back to the 1800s

meanwhile in england it spread very quickly

england also had the advantage of population concentration

'production capacity' not 'production output'

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which was much more ideal for transporting materialand building factories

Remember that India and Ghandi literally wanted to deindustrialise and return to agriculture

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@ManAnimal england had a bigger pop than the us for a very very long time

and with pop goes production

They would actually be an industrial state if they stayed with the UK

the us only had 1 million americans at the time of the revolution

of course, most of europe still does

britain had many times that

despite being relatively small

most of europe doesnt have coal deposits AND easy sea access though

Issue is the UK is smol

population density is some 30-50% greater in most european countries than in the US

likewise britain used their military to crush their competitors

and force nations to open trade

So TLDR

and the US did less of this

see why they are different?

The British empire was an economic and military power throughout the 19th and early 20th century

Americas population has gone up fucking massively since ww2

by the time the US is the hegemon, they can't exactly go around and FORCE as many countries to give everything to them like the Brits did

even the US give to the Brits at one point

The British Empire was projecting power onto the world stage in a manner that is now comparable to the US at the time

the us did some minor economic imperialism while england did theirs

but it was mostly local

More so actually because of China

they did it in the carribean

and they did it in japan

The issue is we see the way the US projects power but their model is just the British empires but toned down

then of course the spanish american war goes off

so that means the capacity of the US is a MUCH higher concentration because what they gained was through trade rather than conquest