This does not make sense. If spending is much higher for a similar number of people, then spending per capita will be higher by the same factor. Normalising per

This does not make sense. If spending is much higher for a similar number of people, then spending per capita will be higher by the same factor. Normalising per block of 300M people or per person is exactly the same, that’s not misleading at all. The headline says exactly what it seems to say. It does not imply any normalisation per capita.