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Re:Look at median, and not mean GDP per capita by zeroonetwothree on Sunday August 07, 2022 @08:54PM (#32381405)
One of the methods of computing GDP is total income. So I would hardly say they are unrelated.
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Re:Look at median, and not mean GDP per capita by eru on Monday August 08, 2022 @01:02AM (#32382513)
Yes, gross domestic income and gross domestic product _should_ be exactly the same, if accounting was 100% accurate.

That they are different in practice is sort-of a measurement error.

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Re:Look at median, and not mean GDP per capita by PeterisP on Monday August 08, 2022 @05:16AM (#32383627)
Wouldn't there be a difference in cases where due to foreign ownership and capital extraction some money would get counted as GDP in one country but GDI in another?
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Re:Look at median, and not mean GDP per capita by eru on Monday August 08, 2022 @07:02AM (#32384149)
That's not really a problem as far as I can tell. The standard definitions take care of this.

Maybe you are confused about gross domestic product vs gross national product?

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