[dinkblam]

so 2.8% is "healthy" for the US, but 5.3% for China is a "disaster"...

[washedup]

The countries operate very differently, so yes, it's possible to view it that way and have it be a logical statement.

[brigadier132]

It all depends on the size you are starting at and your population size.

[passwordoops]

And expectations. If the US was coming off a year of, say 3.2% growth, or if the fed predicted 3.1% (I love how they never include margins of error) then this wouldn't be such a rosy picture.

[robotcapital]

I don't know if the Fed themselves gives margins of error, but the GDPNow indicator the Atlanta Fed puts out (https://www.atlantafed.org/cqer/research/gdpnow) also includes ranges for industry forecasts. In this case it seems we were above even the most optimistic expectations.

[verdverm]

I'm not sure how much people really trust the numbers coming out of Authoritarian countries.

There is also individual context to account for. Healthy metrics for a 20yo vs 80yo are very different