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by IkmoIkmo 2140 days ago
You're taking PPP figures instead of nominal figures. That's not necessarily wrong but it should be mentioned and explained. Based on nominal figures both new york state and russia are around 1.6-1.7 trillion.
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PPP is incredibly misleading and is often useless as a comparison mechanism. The same car in the USA isn’t somehow cheaper in China (quite the opposite, Russia also), a lot of adjustments made in PPP are straight out differences in quality of life expectations.