Lithuania’s GDP/capita (PPP) is now on par with Japan’s. Will most likely surpass Japan during early 2023.

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  1. Obviously very impressive but it’s important to note that PPP is a bit of a dodgy measure that measures a lot of things *quite well* but measures nothing *very well*.

    Can you have a very good life in LT nowadays? Sure. Is the average Lithuanian as rich as the average Japanese person now? No, and it’ll be some decades yet.

  2. It will most definitely not surpass Japan in 2023.

    Lithiuania experienced over 20% inflation in 2022 so far. Japan sits at 3.6%.

    This data is old and does not reflect current situation at all.

  3. In nominal GDP per capita, Japan is still 70% higher than Lithuania’s: [https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.CD?locations=JP-LT](https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.CD?locations=JP-LT)

    More importantly, Japan is increasingly not a good benchmark. Its economy has been stagnating for almost thirty years.

    Germany, which isn’t doing great either, and which only has 2/3s of Japan’s population, is even on track to surpass Japan in absolute GDP: [https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.MKTP.CD?locations=JP-DE](https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.MKTP.CD?locations=JP-DE).

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