> It's the sort of thing that makes me wish my country was like China.

PR China is still pretty poor (around 31k$ gdp per capita adjusted for purchasing power) and its growth has lost a bit of steam recently.

You should wish your country to be more like Taiwan or South Korea. Or Singapore.

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nixon_why69 14 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

I think the PPP calculations may suffer from the same problem as the USA inflation rate being nominally low. Housing, food and medicine are all ludicrously cheap outside of tier 1 cities.

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matheusmoreira 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> 31k$ gdp per capita

My country is currently at about a third of that.

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greenavocado 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> You should wish your country to be more like Taiwan or South Korea. Or Singapore.

Total fertility rate for all of those countries is close to 1.0, including China's. They are dying societies.

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eru 2 hours ago | parent [-]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_fer... suggests Chad and Somalia and DR Congo are the most vibrant societies by that metric.

You might want to compare Singapore with a city like NYC or London, not with a territorial state. It's pretty normal around the world for cities to be replenished mainly by people moving in.

(Of course, to be fair you then also need to compare GDP per capita against other cities. And they usually do a lot better than territorial countries that include a lot of hinterland.)

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HKH2 39 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

What if you omit states that depend on welfare?

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greenavocado an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

I never said a high TFR means a vibrant society. A low TFR is indisputably the slow death of a society.

	▲	eru 44 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Vatican is the deadest of societies, I guess?