Bairoch’s data show the French GNP in 1913 only 55 percent o
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- The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers whole source · open book
Bairoch’s data show the French GNP in 1913 only 55 percent of Germany’s and its share of world manufacturing production around 40 percent of Germany’s; Wright has its national income as being $6 billion in 1914 to Germany’s $12 billion.95 Another war with its eastern neighbor, should France stand alone, could only repeat the result of 1870–1871. On many of these comparative indices, France had also slipped well behind the United States, Britain, and Russia as well as Germany, so that by the early twentieth century it was only the fifth among the Great Powers.
chapter: The Position of the Powers, 1885–1914