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Industrial output in Western Europe 1947-1951
By 1951, at the beginning of what is known as Western Europe's "Golden Age", output was over seventy percent higher than it's pre-war level in a number countries. This was true for both agriculture-based countries, such as Ireland and Italy, as well as the heavily-industrialized countries of Belgium and the United Kingdom.