1. Diverging pathsPeru and Syria

   Peru and Syria: similar GDP per person in 1990, 3.4 times apart in 2022

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   Output per person a year, in 2021 dollars adjusted for price differences: $6,300 in Peru and $6,000 in Syria in 1990; $15,600 and $4,600 in 2022. Peru grew 2.5-fold; Syria fell 23%.

   Source: World Bank (WDI, ITU and UNESCO data); UN WPP 2024Open on the chart →

More findings

• Peru: the share of adults with obesity has overtaken the share going hungry
• Syria: once more foreign-born lived here than natives abroad; now 8.93M natives live abroad
• Peru: more adults live with obesity than use tobacco
• Peru: 8 in 10 are online, but only 5 in 10 have clean water at home whenever needed
• Syria: 43% fewer babies in 2018 than before the war; 3% more in countries without war
• Promises to cut poverty: 3 of 7 came true on time. US Democrats expected 6.25% by 2018; it was 11.8%

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