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Comment by aguaviva

22 days ago

Frankly Botswana is beating Ukraine in GDP

Ukraine's GDP is close to 10x that of Botswana, and in the last year has grown 10 percent over that of 2022.

Try GDP per capita PPP, the measure that matters for average living conditions

  • When your first attempt at dropping a random statistic gets blown out of the water -- try shifting the goalposts.

    • I bet you had to look it up as well. I bet you had to go out there, and confirm that Ukraine, a country with 15x the population of Botswana, does indeed have a higher GDP.

      To make your discussions easier and less embarrassing in the future, assume that 100 % of the time when someone speaks of GDP, they're speaking of GDP at purchasing power parity per capita.

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