If the only thing driving your GDP is new people (and mostly immigration) you don't have a very productive economy. I think this has been the case in a lot of p

If the only thing driving your GDP is new people (and mostly immigration) you don't have a very productive economy. I think this has been the case in a lot of places for a long time, but that statistic just has to go up by the tiniest of amounts and we technically don't have recession and our leaders are doing great, right? It's a huge and disastrous example of Goodhart's Law in action.