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OP is clearly presenting a simplified picture for sake of discussion, which made me wonder what populations or regions he might be leaving out. – Most populous
by divbzero 6y ago
OP is clearly presenting a simplified picture for sake of discussion, which made me wonder what populations or regions he might be leaving out.
– Most populous continent not discussed: Africa [1]
– Most populous country not discussed: Indonesia [1]
– Biggest economy not discussed: Japan [2]
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_population https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_population
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)
- topher200 6y agoThe author is based in Taiwan. I believe he would have good insight into developments and trends in Asian regions generally. That's a very interesting list of absent economies that you posted though. We don't hear much from the telecom/internet backbone from those areas... perhaps they don't have as much local development and rely more on US/China based developments and infrastructure.