1. Diverging pathsPeru and Zimbabwe

   Peru and Zimbabwe: similar GDP per person in 1990, 2.9 times apart in 2025

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   Output per person a year, in 2021 dollars adjusted for price differences: $6,300 in Peru and $6,100 in Zimbabwe in 1990; $16,100 and $5,500 in 2025. Peru grew 2.5-fold; Zimbabwe fell 9%.

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

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• Peru: the share of adults with obesity has overtaken the share going hungry
• 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
• Zimbabwe: once more foreign-born lived here than natives abroad; now 1.52M natives live abroad
• Promises to cut poverty: 3 of 7 came true on time. US Democrats expected 6.25% by 2018; it was 11.8%
• Peru and Finland: the reading gap at age 15 shrank from 219 to 82 points in 22 years

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