The line graph compares the average annual growth of gross domestic product in wealthy countries, globalisers, and non-globalisers over a forty-year period from the 1960s to the 1990s.
Overall, globalisers showed a sharp upward trend in GDP growth throughout the period, while wealthy countries experienced a noticeable decline. In contrast, the figures for non-globalisers fluctuated moderately over time.
In the 1960s, wealthy countries recorded the highest average annual growth, at just under 5%, whereas globalisers had the lowest figure, at around 1.5%. However, the GDP growth of globalisers increased dramatically over the following decades, reaching approximately 5% by the 1990s and becoming the highest among the three groups. Meanwhile, the growth rate of wealthy countries fell steadily, declining to about 2% by the end of the period.
With regard to non-globalisers, their GDP growth rose slightly from about 2.5% in the 1960s to just over 3% in the 1970s, when it peaked. This was followed by a decrease to roughly 2.3% in the 1980s, before a modest recovery to around 1.5% in the 1990s.