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GDP per capita is more telling, IMHO.

Major European countries are encouraging high immigration to boost overall GDP numbers but the result is higher population growth than GDP growth. Ie. GDP per capita is decreasing and hence, in reality people are getting poorer.

For instance, it seems that Germany's population grew by more than 0.4% in 2023 (between 0.5 and 0.8% from what I can find online)... Certainly, in the UK's case the GDP growth is only due to the frantic influx of people but GDP per capita is going down.



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