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yorwba
39 days ago
Finnish GDP per capita is growing much, much faster than Malawi's:
https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.PP.CD?locat...
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Geee
38 days ago
This is not accurate, because it's not adjusted for inflation. There hasn't been real GDP growth in Finland for 20 years. This is more accurate comparison:
https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.PP.KD?end=2...
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yorwba
38 days ago
Thanks, I got bit by the counterintuitive semantics of "current international $" meaning "current at each point in the graph" instead of "current at the time the graph was made."
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