CAVOK@lemmy.world to Europe@feddit.orgEnglish · 1 day agoPoland is nearly as rich as the UK. How has it caught up so fast?www.thetimes.comexternal-linkmessage-square23linkfedilinkarrow-up1116arrow-down111file-text
arrow-up1105arrow-down1external-linkPoland is nearly as rich as the UK. How has it caught up so fast?www.thetimes.comCAVOK@lemmy.world to Europe@feddit.orgEnglish · 1 day agomessage-square23linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squareTempermentalAnomaly@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·14 hours agoYou’re confusing nominal us dollars and adjusting for price and inflation, or what the OECD calls Purchasing Power Parity (PPP). This is what the article uses and is more meaningful than nominal gdp per capita. Here’s another source. Also uses the OECD’s PPP.
minus-squaresucius@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-210 hours agoI can’t read the article and I’m going by what you quoted which says: Poland’s GDP per capita. And I said: GDP per capita =! GDP per capita PPP> I think you’re the one who’s confused
minus-squareTempermentalAnomaly@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·edit-26 hours agoYou need to look at the article. That’s not my problem. Edit: You edited in GDP per capita =! GDP per capita PPP after I posted my reply. What in the living fuck is wrong with you!
minus-squaresucius@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-25 hours agoWhat the fuck are you even on about? Are you mentally okay? I didn’t edit nothing but the format to make it more easily readable
You’re confusing nominal us dollars and adjusting for price and inflation, or what the OECD calls Purchasing Power Parity (PPP). This is what the article uses and is more meaningful than nominal gdp per capita.
Here’s another source. Also uses the OECD’s PPP.
I can’t read the article and I’m going by what you quoted which says:
And I said:
I think you’re the one who’s confused
You need to look at the article. That’s not my problem.
Edit: You edited in
GDP per capita =! GDP per capita PPP
after I posted my reply. What in the living fuck is wrong with you!What the fuck are you even on about? Are you mentally okay? I didn’t edit nothing but the format to make it more easily readable