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I'm always sad that in these kind of global statistics, each EU country is treated separately. When comparing big powers like US and China, I would expect the E
by koonsolo 5y ago
I'm always sad that in these kind of global statistics, each EU country is treated separately. When comparing big powers like US and China, I would expect the European Union to be represented.
- GuB-42 5y agoThere is a small problem though. What are you going to do with the UK? Count it in? Count it out? or have a big, artificial jump in the charts at the time of Brexit?
- arlort 5y agoIf the graph wants to show long term trends then the obvious choice is to count it out since right now and for the foreseeable future it'll be out If your objective is to write an history book about early 2000s and you want to put a chart then you'd count it in and have a big drop with a footnote
- koonsolo 5y agoGood catch! :) But I would say count it out, since else the UK statistic would be 0 for some time :D. So it's "historical GDP of the current EU"