Table : TABLE 20.1Per Capita Levels of Industrialization, 1750–1913
1750180018301860188019001913
Great Britain1016256487100115
Belgium9101428435688
United States4914213869126
France991220283959
Germany88915255285
Austria-Hungary77811152332
Italy88810121726
Russia6678101520
China8664433
India7663212

Note: All entries are based on an index value of 100, equal to the per capita level of industrialization in Great Britain in 1900. Data for Great Britain includes Ireland, England, Wales, and Scotland.

Source: P. Bairoch, “International Industrialization Levels from 1750 to 1980,” Journal of European Economic History 11 (Spring 1982): 294, U.S. Journals at Cambridge University Press.