Polen ist fast so reich wie Großbritannien. Wie konnte es so schnell aufholen?
https://www.thetimes.com/comment/columnists/article/poland-rich-gdp-uk-explained-kn7ps3svf
Von ByGollie
Polen ist fast so reich wie Großbritannien. Wie konnte es so schnell aufholen?
https://www.thetimes.com/comment/columnists/article/poland-rich-gdp-uk-explained-kn7ps3svf
Von ByGollie
45 Kommentare
If Poland have same labour shortage as rest of the V4, they could they could use plumbers from UK.
Likely by hard work. Why would it remain poorer than the UK?
that’s an overstatement, being as rich as UK means to have leverage on financial markets and the commercial connections (and resources) of the Commonwealth ; is this article payed advertisement for the Polish gvt?
The answer is simple. Brexit
It’t not that Poland is performing so well, it’s that UK is doing so shit.
No it’s not.
Poland GDP per capita: $25,022. UK GDP per capita: $52,636.
Source: [World Bank ](https://share.google/1wkTMyMGC4mAHRmVL)
Poland median income: $8,885. UK median income: $14,793
Source: [World Population review]
(https://share.google/A4eCSFelCdUN0iaLH)
Median Wealth per Adult by Country :
Poland: $ 20,263. UK:$ 151,825.
Source :[World population review ](https://share.google/tgfBDUXdARGqvopUU)
It’s nearly as rich if you look at specific stats. You can easily use other stats to paint a different headline:
UK GDP per capita is $52,000
Poland GDP per capita is $26,000
Wow look, the UK is twice as rich as Poland…
This is just the type of nonsense you get from taking PPP corrected figures. For a certain basket of goods things are getting more near. In real money poland is like half of the UK’s GDP.
I welcome the coming of Poland’s EU net contributor age.
I actually find it hard to understand how rich countries stay rich and poor countries struggle so much to become rich. Why is polish per capita income so low, when they’re so incredibly hard working, self sacrificing, and favour education, and the government is so well organized and been investing heavily in infrastructure and research for decades? How is the UK still wealthy at all, when everyone from government down seems to be trying to be actively counterproductive?
(Edit..initially tried to use china as my example, to try and avoid the political point scoring of the article, but thought I better try and stay on topic…but you can imagine I’m really thinking more of china than Poland)
I moved from Poland to the UK nearly 20 years ago now but still visit from time to time and there is no way Poland is richer than the UK.
Yes people are definitely richer than they were when I was leaving but still nowhere near the UK level.
Ferocious PPP/nominal debates incoming, doubtless with zero references to economic literature to argue the validity of one over the other. Not sure overtaking the UK is set in stone for Poland yet (they could converge instead, for example) – Lithuania is growing faster.
Lol, I wish. If I moved to UK right now, I would earn at least 200% doing the same job, and the cost of living is nowhere near 200% in the UK
It doesn’t have British politicians screwing everything up I assume.
That’s complete nonsense. The median household wealth in Great Britain is £293,700.
Compare the prices of real estate in the UK and Poland.
Poland deserves to be congratulated on turning round their economy from a socialist command economy to a vibrant free market capitalist economy.
Polish people need to chill. you aint as rich as you think you are
They found the most polish guy for the picture.
Working in high paid countries and sending the money home. How else are you supposed to make money in an enclosed system skewed for the rich?
Every now and then I read such nonsense and wonder if it’s stupidity or if our government is paying for some kind of propaganda. Poland is developing and that’s great, but let’s get down to earth. We’re not even close to the UK. Our development so far has been based on being a subcontractor for Western companies.
I love how most comments here are about rebutting the claim focusing on specific metrics, while missing out on the fact that Poland went from a devastated post Soviet country to a fully developed country in 30 years.
Did the standards of living of the UK went up or down for the average person in the last 30 years? What about the last 10 years?
But this is exactly the type of ‘bury our head in the sand’ atttude that Europe displays when anyone makes one notice that our standards of living are not guaranteed by god, but rather the result of a (once) productive society.
But I’m sure we are on the good path and doubling down on the same policies of the last 20 years will result in a great outcome.
I didn’t even open the comment section yet but i can already imagine its some sort of combination of „the stats are wrong“ and a PPP debate
Sorry but whoever wrote this has no grasp of the (financial) world and is either cherry picking to a very extreme degree or straight up lying.
The UK has a strong financial center known all over the world, has tight relations with and lots of possessions in many former colonies and dominions, and has twice the population; while Poland is a country of agriculture and manufacturing that has no former overseas territories.
About 350k Polish people (2% of our population) are currently in my country of the Netherlands (either Polish nationality or Poland as country of birth), mostly to do menial work (agriculture, construction etc), because the Polish economy just can’t offer them jobs that pay as good. English people generally come over to work in the service sector.
This article is complete BS.
Poland is like the top EU funds beneficiary for many years now. Are we really wondering about this?
Though at least they put them to good use, Greece also received several and converted them to Porsches.
All your diligent workers moved back! Lol
Vodka and good Christian moral 🙂 Any Eastern European country that reduces corruption makes economic jump, because in general people in Eastern European are better educated, work harder, better, and have better working ethics. Also the social tensions are far lesser. The overall thinking is quite different from that in UK, despite US social medias are trying to change that.
Not making fundamentally dumb policies and electing muppets who’s only goal is to fuck over working class people. It’s pretty simple actually.
They hate the Germans and on the other side they are mostly working for German companies. Lol. In other terms: EU money flow like Marshallplan once for Germany.
as much as „work hard“ can be a liberal lie, it caught up mainly because of people’s hard work. Poles are ambitious and had huuuge inferiority complex that drove us to improve everything in sight.
Ridiculous article. It not only doesn’t answer the question in the title it says bugger all!
It is not. Really. Poland is developing, but this propaganda is too much…
It’s not that much about Poland catching up with UK but more about UK getting poorer.
Polish median wealth per capita is the lowest in the EU. The UK is among the highest in Europe. Point is, you can pick and choose any stat to tell any story you want.
Poland’s nominal GDP projection for 2025 is around $980 billion, UK’s is over 3,6 trillion. Should I continue?
That should be a rhetorical question.
Because the UK is a fucking shithole that keeps shooting itself in the foot
It’s not that hard to catch up with a man who is running towards you.
Anyone who has been to the UK and has a lot of family in Poland can immediately tell you its not true lmao
Yes since driving on bumpy shit roads in 2004 to today A LOT has changed, but lets be real here. Also anyone who has family in Poland will tell you how shit it is outside any major city in terms of infrastructure and other benefits, life in smaller villages is much the same, which is a Big part of Poland.
Did Poland catch up or did UK fell hard ?
I’ve always been curious as to why the UK is always the frame of reference for these comparisons to Poland. If it’s nearly as rich as the UK then it’s nearly as rich as Germany, France, Italy as well.
It’s not.
But it was allowed to move closer through record amounts of money transferred by the EU.
Socialism and European integration, in short. Same things their local „patriots“ oppose.
Subsidies from the EU and also the huge amount of Polish working overseas then going home……
How? Like in the joke. I am married, and I am a millioner. What were you before? A billioner.
lol not True
Nearly as rich might be pushing it, no?
Plus, I thought some parts of the UK were struggling in their own way?
Are there any British plumbers in Poland, though ?