Comment Comment by Aaron_Putnam GDP per capita is still at $767, which is representative of the majority of the population earning a subsistence living.Ethiopia has a population of 105 million, yet it has the gross scientific output of Latvia, a country of only 1.92 million:https://www.natureindex.com/country-outputs/generate/All/glo...What is growing is CO2 emissions, at 14.9 million tonnes. By contrast, Latvia emits only 8 million tonnes.On a per-CO2 basis, Latvia is twice as efficient as Ethiopia in producing science. On a per-capita basis, Latvia is 55x as efficient.The situation is the same across the world when you compare countries populated by Europeans or East-Asians against everyone else. parent Aaron_Putnam 6 years ago
Ethiopia has a population of 105 million, yet it has the gross scientific output of Latvia, a country of only 1.92 million:
https://www.natureindex.com/country-outputs/generate/All/glo...
What is growing is CO2 emissions, at 14.9 million tonnes. By contrast, Latvia emits only 8 million tonnes.
On a per-CO2 basis, Latvia is twice as efficient as Ethiopia in producing science. On a per-capita basis, Latvia is 55x as efficient.
The situation is the same across the world when you compare countries populated by Europeans or East-Asians against everyone else.