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The us is a service economy, while germany is a manufacturing one. It's a bit hard to compare. As for the French with their short work weeks, it makes sense tha
by tormeh 12y ago
The us is a service economy, while germany is a manufacturing one. It's a bit hard to compare. As for the French with their short work weeks, it makes sense that they're very efficient.
- adventured 12y agoThis is incorrect. The US is the world's second largest manufacturing economy, and just until recently was in front of China.
- 001sky 12y agoProportions?
- alayne 12y agoYou can't compare by total output, you need to normalize by population or as percentage of GDP. It's only about 13% of the U.S. GDP and 23% of Germany's GDP according to the World Bank for 2011.
- adventured 12y agoI think you can compare by total output. How about we normalize based on manufacturing output vs population and claim China isn't a manufacturing economy either. If you have a manufacturing sector roughly the size of the entire economy of France or Russia or Brazil, and that doesn't qualify as having a manufacturing economy, then no country qualifies as such.