According to Eurostat, in 2022 Ireland had a lower standard of living than Romania (as measured by consumption of goods and services), despite having 3x the GDP per capita.

by Grustico

12 comments

  2. Yeah, because consumption directly equates to standard of living…

    People really struggle to read between the lines these days.

  3. This doesn’t surprise me I’m in Nicaragua right now one of the poorest countries in the Western Hemisphere, on minimum wage here you can easily rent your own house, feed yourself and pay all your bills with relative ease, fair enough everything else is fucked but in relative terms it almost seems like you can have a better life here

  4. Consumption of serives and goods? Is that measuring how much a houselhold spends? We have been saving like mad. Second only to the Swis. Mabey that’s what’s making us so low. We’re saving rather than spending.

    [https://data.oecd.org/hha/household-savings.htm](https://data.oecd.org/hha/household-savings.htm)

  8. Imagine looking at a map and thinking that the takeaway is that the Balkans have a better standard of living than the Nordics.

  10. So, is consumption equal to happiness?

    I’d be inclined to believe that there is no great benefit to consumption beyond getting essential items like food or shelter.

    Not to say I’m a miserly person who owns nothing. Or that I don’t enjoy spending on the odd lego set or video game. But living like a cowboy on payday and spending yourself into the ground to keep up with the Jones is only going to hurt in the long run.

    Though I’m sure our stat would be much higher if things here were much cheaper.

  12. Romania is a really beautiful country with wonderful people. Of a group of 6 of us 3 lost wallets and phones in a weekend, all returned. Same would probably not happen in Ireland. Most stunning women too

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