• Yeah I also would love to know wtf happened. Good for 'em of course, but that shift seems more like a measurement methodology change than an economic growth.

      Or just that a new method of getting around sanctions happened and their trade expanded dramatically, allowing the growth to be measurable.

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    Sorry, this is not as good as you think. This increase is likely a combination of like 10% of the population emigrating in the past few years and a new flow of remittances from the United States (recently allowed under Biden). Cubans are going to the US and getting jobs to send money back to their families, giving a direly needed capital injection to the Cuban economy but also making them more reliant on the US.

    Through the growth does seem improbably large even considering that, I think the world bank has trouble measuring semi socialist economies like Cuba

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    It would be interesting to see this translated into GDP PPP but the last time it was published for Cuba was 2015 so it’s a bit out of date. Even without PPP taken into account, that looks pretty solid.

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      Cuba’s 2020 GDP is 107 billion per World Bank. I think there’s an error in your graph, what’s the source?

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        Probably an error but if true they like have half a trillion USD on GDP

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      Aint no way thats true, i love cuba as much as the next guy but like is that even possible? This is a country with very few valuable natural resources, and i do not know any top tech industry from cuba.