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The eu-wide GDP ranks are (from the bottom): * Albania * Bulgaria * Romania * Croatia * Hungary * Poland <<< * Greece * Latvia * .... So, while all of these a
by simbolit 3y ago
The eu-wide GDP ranks are (from the bottom):
* Albania
* Bulgaria
* Romania
* Croatia
* Hungary
* Poland <<<
* Greece
* Latvia
* ....
So, while all of these are 'upper-middle income', relative to other EU countries, Poland is 22/27. If you look at Europe as a continent, then Ukraine and Moldova combined have less than half the polish GDP.
It's all relative, and "poor" even more so.
Thanks for the info on the migration balance, tho!
- FirmwareBurner 3y agoRaw GDP numbers don't mean much as they don't always translate to citizen welfare and citizen wealth. Just because there are some major companies in a country, experts at extracting wealth from the global economy, it'll push the GDP up, but that doesn't mean you'll necessarily get to see any of that money.
- anovikov 3y agoThat's an outdated rating. Poland is now ahead of Latvia, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, and Portugal. West-East divide between European countries almost does not exist anymore. Czechia is richer than Spain, Slovenia is dead close to UK. Where we had like 3x gap 30 years ago there's at most a 1.4x gap. Poorest: Portugal vs Bulgaria. Richest: Denmark to Slovenia. And groups already intersect. "Eastern Europe" the way it lives in public imagination, within the EU, only exists in rural Bulgaria and some of the poorest (mostly Eastern) parts of Romania. There, it is mostly due to the ethnic composition of population and will probably always stay that way.
- tormeh 3y agoRural Poland can be really sad, at least. When I crossed the border from southern Poland to Czechia, there was a dramatic difference in just a kilometer or two.