Personally the way I’d measure economic strength is simply by multiplying total power generation (industrial development) with total agriculture production (sustainability and general labor output). Data for the USSR is lacking but we can guesstimate that peak USSR was anywhere from equal to somewhat below USA by those metrics while China today is about 1.95 times USA’s size.
Personally the way I’d measure economic strength is simply by multiplying total power generation (industrial development) with total agriculture production (sustainability and general labor output). Data for the USSR is lacking but we can guesstimate that peak USSR was anywhere from equal to somewhat below USA by those metrics while China today is about 1.95 times USA’s size.