
These are all countries that were richer than China in 1980 in terms of GDP per capita. Chinese were the 13th poorest citizens in the world. However, since then China has become one of the fastest growing economies and this is how the map changes if we move fast forward today. Today average Chinese is richer than the citizens of 120 countries. Which is crazy given the size of China's population.
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