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That's tricky. GDP isn't the same thing as productivity, especially in the case of somewhere like Ireland where a lot of that GDP is produced by zero workers, it passively happens by virtue of companies routing their profits through there for tax reasons.

I think the stat to look at here would be median GDP per hour worked, on a per-capita basis. Calculating the median is of course difficult, but it would account for large, person-less streams of money that passively flow through without actually being "productive" in the "creating something new" sense.