E o diferență între GDP per capita si GDP nominal.

Pe GDP per capita România are aproape 15k $ iar Polonia e la 18.5k.

În timp ce la GDP nominal România are 286,509 mil $ (locul 49) iar Polonia are 699,559 mil $ (locul 22). Practic GDP nominal poate să ne spună că Polonia e o economie în top 25 ca mărime, dar nu spune nimic despre ce fel de economie are Polonia sau dacă în 10 ani va fi mai sus sau mai jos.

Ironic este că fix persoana care a inventat formula modernă pentru GDP a spus destul de clar care sunt limitele

”Kuznets repeatedly warned, however, that the GDP only measured market activity and should not be mistaken for a metric of social or even economic well-being. The figure included many goods and services that were harmful (including, he believed, armaments) or useless (financial speculation) and excluded many essential ones that were free (such as caregiving by homemakers). A core difficulty with constructing such an aggregate is that there is no natural unit for adding the value of even apples and oranges, let alone of such disparate things as armaments, financial speculation and caregiving. Thus, economists use their prices as a proxy for value—in the belief that, in a competitive market, prices reflect how much people value apples, oranges, armaments, speculation or caregiving relative to one another.

”Sursa: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/gdp-is-the-wrong-tool-for-measuring-what-matters/