• Kbobabob@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    14,391,255 in the UK

    72.24 million in the US

    That percentage doesn’t mean much when there are 400% more people buying things.

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      9 months ago

      You’d care about relative proportion of the population, not absolute.

      A recession is defined by relative change in the size of the economy, not absolute.