The world’s second-largest economy sometimes suffers from its own success: it’s hard to comprehend how big it really is.To help put things in perspective, this map compares China’s economy with East, Southeast, South, and Central Asia: a combined entity of 30 other countries labeled as “Rest of Asia”.Data is sourced from the UN and the IMF as of 2024. Countries from Western Asia (i.e. the Middle East) and Russia (which spans Europe and Asian continents) haven’t been included, and data was unavailable for North Korea.
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33 sats \ 0 replies \ @TomK 14 Nov
The comparison with India which still is growing fast and with far less state intervention is interesting. China isxmore or less 3x India until now
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11 sats \ 0 replies \ @7e6e393a56 14 Nov
Massive financial support for industrialization, substantial increases in technology and export of low-cost products culminated in this result... and it is worth highlighting the loss of competitiveness of the most developed countries outsourcing to the Chinese industry
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