Largest economies in 1939

[Dragoon]

GDP Levels in 1939 by 1990 standards in millions of dollars...

1. USA: 863,000
2. USSR: 430,000
3. Germany: 375,000
4. UK: 300,000
5. China: ~285,000
6. India: 256,000
7. Japan: 204,000
8. France: 200,000
9. Italy: 155,000

Other:

Netherlands: 49,000
Spain: 49,000
Australia: 40,000
Canada: 55,000
Poland: 70,000
Argentina: 58,000
Brazil: 51,000



source: Angus Maddison

[Polish phenotypes]

Yes Poland was okay by pre-WWII comparative standards and had a sizable bourgeois class (and of course inequality which was a norm at the time, most of my family were extremely poor but some were doing okay). I thought Argentina would be higher as it was among the top 10 rich economies in the early 20th century.
Edit: I also thought pre-communist China would be higher.