Poland Is About to Pass Japan. How?
In 1990 Japan was almost three times richer than Poland. In 2026, adjusted for prices, the IMF expects the average Pole to pull ahead. How?
Poland grew for 28 years without a recession while Japan’s bubble burst and its population aged. How the gap closed from both ends, what the numbers really mean, and the demographic twist now heading for Poland.
⏱ Chapters
0:00 1990: Japan three times richer than Poland
1:27 Japan’s bubble economy
3:29 Poland’s shock therapy
4:26 The factory next to Germany
5:41 2009: Poland didn’t fall
6:26 Japan’s real problem: getting old
7:52 Is Poland really richer than Japan?
8:42 Poland’s Japan problem
9:25 Why Poland caught Japan
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USA on Purpose caused Japan to cause currency inflation. Destroying Japans Economy. To this day. By making sure everything made in Japan was too expensive to sell to the world.
Po pierwsze to Polska przyjmuje dużo imigrantów a po drugie Japonia nie miała AI oraz robotów nowej ery, które nadchodzą.
10:10 it is interesting that you show 163 bilion euro of net European funds but do not state amount of profits EU companies took out of Poland in those years.
Poles are naturally intelligent, hard working, conservative and family oriented honest. They are well educated and speak English fluently. Poles are also driven to excel, to throw off the filthy marxism of russia, marxism that continues to this day in russia.
Rich, free, more free than Americans in many ways, creative, safe, and clean, Poland is the exemplar of ambition and God fearing success.
In 1985, Japan was already in the year 2000, and it remained there.
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"too big to fail" Japan didn't let banks and institution to bankrupt in 90's, Poland did (shock therapy). Short term was bad for Poland and ok-ish for Japan, but for long term…
After watching, banking system in Poland is more restricted, this is was big reason for no recession in 2008, and is still stricter than in EU even after changes.
More young people are currently going back to Poland, and young people from Ukrainne are coming, which will help. But future is still unknown, but I would prefer be avg person in Poland than avg person in Japan. I watch too much how it really is in Japan, and law and culture (work, etc) is bad.
actually a very interesting video. im surprised it barely has any views.
Poland did not catch up to anything, after fall of Socialism – its economy was dismantled by emerging Capitalists. Just like every other ex-Warsaw pact country.
Poland simply normalised back to somewhat what it used to be, of course today it aint got a computer industry and all its high tech and television manufacturers are non existent. Replaced by foreign factories making cheap junk, a far cry from what used to be precision electronics engineering.
Passing Japan is easy when its economy is in a freefall thanks to the US forcing them to stop selling off the US bonds they have hoarded over the decades which causes the bonds to drop in value which causes the owners to take massive financial hits, go into increasing debt and sometimes even bankruptcy.