Generally…are French Colonies poorer than British colonies?

Not really, when you compare like for like colonies. When you think of the most prosperous former British colonies (USA, Australia, and Canada), they all have a common feature: they’re all primarily populated by former English colonists or other Europeans. read more

2. If it is true, I'd suggest that many French colonies are poorer than their British counterparts simply because they started out poorer. Ex-French Niger is poorer than ex-British Nigeria, but that's substantially because most of Niger is unpopulated desert while Nigeria is densely populated and resource rich. 3. read more

Germany, Italy, Sweden, Denmark and Japan had colonial empires for only the very briefest of moments, and their greatest eras of development came before and after those colonial episodes. Switzerland, Finland, and Austria never had colonies. read more