This is the downside of The Economist's signature writing style - in trying to translate dry economic statistics into real-world referents, they can get the ref

This is the downside of The Economist's signature writing style - in trying to translate dry economic statistics into real-world referents, they can get the referents wrong. Especially if the subject matter is regarding a younger generation, or (more worryingly) a non-Western country, or (even worse) poor or uneducated people.