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Geee 4 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: We don't know why Malawi is poor

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...

yorwba 4 months 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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