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cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/8004138

How do you measure the economic success of a country?

By one classic measure, GDP per capita shows individual economic prosperity. But comparing countries simply by this metric doesn’t tell the whole story. To get a better idea of living standards, it helps to look at how far your money will go along with adjusting for labor productivity.

This graphic shows the world’s richest countries by three different measures, based on data from The Economist and Sondre Solstad. All figures are in U.S. dollars.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Shitty metrics because averages are highly skewed by inequality.

[–] akrot 3 points 9 months ago

Yurop using metrics that makes the EU look good. Imagine my shock. Now show me media please.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I agree to it's not perfect, but how come than Denmark and Belgium, which are amongst the most equal income wise (7 and 14 lowest Gini coefficient in the world) are top 5 and 6 here too?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_income_equality

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Coincidence, they just happen to have a high average in combination with low inequality.