> Is Ireland considered affluent now?

Ireland is the richest country in Europe by GDP-per-capita[1] (apart a few uber-rich city states).

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_in_Eu...

> India...

India has been struggling to get its population growth control under control for decades. I think we can excuse a brief overcorrection as they stabilise.

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jacquesm 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Ireland's figures are wildly unbalanced compared to other EU countries because so many companies decided to formally register their headquarters there. They don't pay as much tax as they should so the income stats are way up there but the positive effects are not as you might expect from that (if they weren't actually negative).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_Sandwich

This is now mostly a thing of the past but there are still lingering after-effects.

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Supernaut an hour ago | parent [-]

> They don't pay as much tax as they should so the income stats are way up

What do you mean by "the income stats are way up"?

	▲	jacquesm 39 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		That the GDP stats are skewed but the taxes aren't there. So it looks as if Ireland is doing much better on paper than what is happening in reality. Normally with that kind of GDP you'd also have a solid tax base to go with it, here it is the opposite, Ireland has that GDP because their corporate taxes were super low.