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> Literacy rate data is from 1994 onwards, steadily up Supporting the argument, since progress keeps following the trend. > life expectancy growth accelerated
by yorwba 7y ago
> Literacy rate data is from 1994 onwards, steadily up
Supporting the argument, since progress keeps following the trend.
> life expectancy growth accelerated from ~2000 and is slowing down a bit again
Slight waviness superimposed on the overall trend.
> how is GDP per capita, an important metric, “a bit of a exception”
GDP per capita had a trend reversal in 2000, unlike the other metrics.
> annual GDP growth rate does seem a lot more steady since 2004
Most likely a change in methodology that gives less noisy estimates.
- oefrha 7y ago> GDP per capita had a trend reversal in 2000, unlike the other metrics Two other less important and less immediate metrics. The “exception” easily outweigh them both.
- yorwba 7y agoI spent some time browsing the World Bank's data portal and found another metric that shows similar exceptional growth: number of pupils in primary education https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SE.PRM.ENRL?locations=ET https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SE.PRM.ENRL?locations=E... That one takes off in 1993, about a decade before GDP exploded. Maybe the secret to Ethiopia's growth is just that the population became educated enough to do something useful with the money invested by foreign entities?
- oefrha 7y agoCertainly could be.