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Re:Kazakhstan is changing its alphabet from Cyrillic to Lati... by RomanPushkin on Wednesday April 25, 2018 @06:04PM (#16926697)
> Russia is ranked around #60 in the world on GDP per capita.

Nonetheless, GPD rank is ~12

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nomi...

Per-capita rating of countries like India, China is lower (~100). But these are apparently strong economies.

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Re:Kazakhstan is changing its alphabet from Cyrillic to Lati... by dmoy on Wednesday April 25, 2018 @08:48PM (#16927893)
Right but India and China have solid gdp growth for decades, and have been educating hundreds of millions and pulling them out of poverty while Russia: https://tradingeconomics.com/russia/gdp-growth

Three decades ago Russia had a literacy rate of like 99%++, while China was at like 60-70%. There was a lot of "free" growth to be had in China (obviously not free) by lifting the population. China's still got room to grow there.

Like a lot of things in economics, trajectory is important (maybe too important, idk).

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