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Re:Mexico is now the 12th largest economy in the world by manymatter on Sunday December 24, 2023 @07:17PM (#38758356)
Economy size is very interesting in itself and has a lot of relevance in some decisions, but per capita has always seemed more important to me, i.e. the Italy and Russia comparison as similar size economies is an interesting one.

Mexico is apparently 10th in population.

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Re:Mexico is now the 12th largest economy in the world by cpursley on Sunday December 24, 2023 @07:39PM (#38758476)
GDP PPP is the one that matters.
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Re:Mexico is now the 12th largest economy in the world by justsomehnguy on Sunday December 24, 2023 @08:44PM (#38758806)
> but per capita has always seemed more important to me

> i.e. the Italy and Russia comparison as liknande size economies

Every time I hear "hur-dur economy less than Italy" (mostly on Reddit, ofc) I always remember a funny trivia: there are more pensioners in Russia (40M+) than everyone in 15-65 y/o gap in Italy (36M).

So yes, economy size without a tie to the population size and social, geographic and other measurements is.. misleading at best.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1093953/number-of-retire...

https://www.statista.com/statistics/569201/population-distri...

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Re:Mexico is now the 12th largest economy in the world by manymatter on Monday December 25, 2023 @05:11AM (#38761347)
> I always remember a funny trivia: there are more pensioners in Russia (40M+) than everyone in 15-65 y/o gap in Italy (36M).

Yes, that's the kind of trivia I find puzzling as Italy has a higher percentage of people over 65.

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