Interesting points you raise, I thought about calculating this by-hand, but then I realized that actual numbers are published by actual economists. Here are so

Interesting points you raise, I thought about calculating this by-hand, but then I realized that actual numbers are published by actual economists. Here are some old figures: https://tradingeconomics.com/ethiopia/gdp-per-capita-growth-annual-percent-wb-data.html https://tradingeconomics.com/ethiopia/gdp-per-capita-growth-... In that year, GDP growth was 7.5%, but per-capita GDP growth was 4.9%. I could have some gaps in my knowledge of the meanings in these figures, but I think the difference roughly equates to what you speculate - that population growth eats some of the economic growth when viewed from the perspective of the individual. Also important to note, I think that these are nominal, not real figures. So right now, I think we would reasonably expect sub-5% real per-capita growth. Even correcting for that I'm sure it's an astounding pace of improvement. It's hard to wrap your head around multi-year improvements in quality of life of that scale. But there's a depressing side, that maybe some nations are actually contracting in per-capita real GDP.