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Zestyclose_Hamster_5 t1_j0fukj7 wrote

Reply to comment by Justinneed in in 2023 India will become the most populous country in the world, surpassing China, which holds the #1 since 1750s. source: The Economist by Junoby

As an American of Pakistani descent, I'm fully aware.

I am also fully aware of the riots in India around the time of partition, the mass rape of Muslim children in Gujarat, the killing and rape of innocent Kashmiris, and the current treatment of Muslims in India under the Nazi-inspired RSS regime.

Please do not lecture me about the recent history of the subcontinent.

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sunchaud t1_j0f7bk8 wrote

Reply to comment by market_theory in in 2023 India will become the most populous country in the world, surpassing China, which holds the #1 since 1750s. source: The Economist by Junoby

And by most metrics, it has been booming for the past 20 years: > GDP: 8x, to 3.2 trillion dollars in 2021

> HDI: up 0.18, to .633

> GDP per Capita: up 5.5 times to 2.3k

> Poverty Rate: down 40 p.p, from 55% to 16%. that's 400MM people out of poverty (!!)

Obviously it does not hold a candle to western Europe levels of development, but it has taken big strides and to argue otherwise is ignorant.

That not withstanding, as anyone with basic understanding of socioeconomic development would know, progress is exponencial and it's faster when the populations stops expanding massively. As India approach replacement levels in fertility, the focus stops being expansion of services and starts being on quality, thus India readies itself for the "true boom".

You can hate India all you want, but it has been doing its homework over the century, despite all the geopolitical noise.

At last, India has been independent for 75 years and talks of "the boom of the economy" have been common place only after 1990. So no, not 50 years

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tyen0 t1_j0f0f7h wrote

Reply to comment by gatogetaway in US CPI reports with corrected time scales. It's helpful to see how out of date the reported numbers are. [OC] by gatogetaway

I see what you are saying, I guess it's more of a semantics issue, and just eyeballing the data I think people can get how the moving average is lagging, but "exactly 6.5 months out of date" just seems a bit too harsh of a way of phrasing it.

That aside, I think this is a pretty cool visualization.

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