A Gripping Movie - Top 15 Countries by Total Exports (1960-2018)

Brilliant video. Gripping like a great movie w unexpected developments. Seems like many countries get their day in the sun. You need more than luck. 


From the video I think the following were the most important differentiating factors among the countries:


- they rise if they had strong growing consumer population; 


- access to and congregations of capital markets activity; 


- single product boost (petroleum, oil and gas); 

- advances in sciences and innovation;


- structure n rule of law (HK, Singapore, Switzerland); 


- ease of trading and location of ports; 


- economic growth strategy; 


- investment in education 


You can see all those factors being played out for the last 50 years. It is kind of easy to predict the scenario 5 to 10 years down the road.