Most economic growth seems to be driven by technology, both physical like machines and intellectual like legal and financial systems. For most of the world's history there wasn't much economic growth, things were much like they were a thousand years before. The UK got rich through the industrial revolution, but then other countries copied that which didn't make the UK poorer in absolute terms but did in relative terms as the rest of the world caught up.

There's a graph of that here https://www.visualcapitalist.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/...

A lot depends how you move along the curve. (graph is from this article https://www.visualcapitalist.com/2000-years-economic-history...)

The next thirty years of the curve should be interesting with AI and all that.