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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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