"How Singapore Got Richer Than Britain With Nothing

How did a tiny island with no oil, no land and not enough water end up richer than Britain? This is the story of Singapore's rise, mapped.

In 1965, Singapore was expelled from Malaysia and left with no natural resources, no army and no countryside to feed it. Today, by some estimates, its income per person is above $90,000, compared with roughly $50,000 to $60,000 in the UK. In this video we follow the map from a trading post on the Strait of Malacca to one of the richest places on Earth, and look at what the headline number leaves out.