The graph illustrates how the annual GDP rate has changed among different categories of countries over several decades. Overall, at the beginning of the period, wealthy countries were the leaders, however, their GDP rate declined over 40 years, while the GDP rate of the globalisers increased, making them the leaders.
In the 1960s, the GDP percentage of developed countries was almost 5.0%, which is three times higher than that of globalisers (1.5%). In the next decade, the GDP rate for wealthy countries decreased significantly to almost 3.0%, while it went up to the same percentage for global countries. In the following decades, the rate of annual GDP continued to decline in developed countries and grow in developing countries with a global approach. By the 1990s, the GDP percentage of wealthy countries had dropped to 2.0%. At the same time, the average annual GDP rose to almost 5.0%.
The GDP percentage of non-global countries fluctuated throughout the period. In the 1960s, it was 2.4%, which grew by the next decade. Then this number dropped sharply under 1.0% in the 1980s. By the end of the period, the GDP rate for non-globalisers had slightly increased to 1.5%.