EU effect: Lithuania vs Belarus – GDP per capita growth comparison 1995 – 2024

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by goldenhairmoose

17 comments

  1. I Have a Dream that once Belarus will break free from Russian domination, it will join Europe and will flourish like never before

  3. Russia has nothing to offer to the countries of Eastern and Central Europe. Only those run by tinpot dictators like Belarus prefer to remain a Russian colony, to secure the power of the leadership at the expense of their population.

    Heck, even the countries in Central Asia are desperate to reduce their dependency on Russia and improve ties with the EU, knowing that it is in their best interest.

    Choosing Russia means choosing poverty and no prospect of real improvement of people’s lives.

  5. I mean Belarus sucks obviously, but this doesn’t make Lithuania look that great either?

  10. To be completely fair the cost of living is also much lower in Belarus.

  12. What about quality of life? Home ownership? Prices skyrocketed in Lithuania due to opening up whole country for sale to reacher EU neighbouring countries, investing. But it made everything less affordable to those born there. Salaries in no way even remotely close kept up to property price increases or food price increases which simply skyrocketed. Only some new jobs appeared in tech and such, but what about older generation who didn’t keep up with those new careers, for them affordability became impossible. And that’s the issue in most of the EU. All countries complain. Like spain is overrun with brits, locals can’t afford shit. Same and worse happened in lithuania. Affordability for your average person of food or property used to be better, like it or not. I don’t really know much or care about Belarus situation. But GDP means jack shit, reality is all that money just means it increased prices making shit unaffordable for locals unless they already owned tons of properties and such.

  16. I’m happy for Lithuania, but PPP means something too.
    We live in pretty self-sufficient economic zone(Russia, China, Kazakhstan and so on) which is protected from foreigners. So we can sell our goods to Russia without much competition.
    Goods in our country are cheapper: houses, utility bills, petrol. Even electronic from China are cheapper.
    Cars and cloth’s brands are more expensive.
    I payed for haircut 27 euro in Vilnius a year ago, while in Minsk it costed 12.
    Utility bill in some live-in appartment with 1 room was 180 euro, while in Minsk it was 33 euro.

    PS: I don’t praise dictators like Putin or Lukashenko

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