1. Diverging pathsPoland and Algeria

   Poland and Algeria: similar GDP per person in 1990, 3 times apart in 2025

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   Output per person a year, in 2021 dollars adjusted for price differences: $12,800 in Poland and $11,700 in Algeria in 1990; $46,900 and $15,900 in 2025. Poland grew 3.7-fold; Algeria rose 35%.

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

More findings

• Poland: an older population than the UK
• Poland: higher GDP per person than Russia
• Poland and Russia: women born in 1974 had almost the same number of children, but 19% and 10% stayed childless
• Algeria: more and more women go to university, yet only 1 in 7 women work or seek work
• Algeria: 68 thousand more people died than usual in 2020–2021; officially 6,229 died of COVID
• Poland: fewer babies die than in the US

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