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Poorest US State Rivals Germany: GDP per Capita in US and Europe

by zeveb on 1/6/25, 9:50 PM with 2 comments

• by Arnt on 1/6/25, 10:52 PM

  I feel that it's really quite strange how imprecise these numbers are.

  Fwiw I'm Norwegian, married to a German and live in Germany. Somehow the prices in Norway have shrunk by 30% for me in recent years. Why? Can't tell. 30%. I don't think it's anything fundamental.

  I think there's a limit to how precisely these numbers measure reality, and it's oddly low.

• by zeveb on 1/6/25, 9:52 PM

  > Mississippi, the poorest state in the United States, is close to surpassing Europe's largest economy Germany's GDP per capita.