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[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Purchase Power Parity only works domestically. Once you venture out in the world, things cost what they cost, no matter how little your populace makes.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

It makes zero sense, but of course tankies will be happy to parade it around. The are well after the 50th in GDP per capita PPP, and probably much lower if would look at actual consumption. In total GDP, outside of top 10

[–] thetreesaysbark 2 points 8 months ago

Even if they are the largest economy in Europe, who cares? Almost all of Europe is united against them and that's a much larger economy against them than with them.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

PPP is a far more relevant metric for less globalized economies which are less reliant on foreign imports.

Whereas Russian imports are 15.6% of GDP and Chinese imports are 17.5% of GDP, imports in Western countries (UK, Canada, France, Germany, Spain) make up about 40-50% of GDP on average.