Sunday, August 12, 2012

Soft drinks and GDP

I just read that Coca Cola in Poland employs about 2,700 people and produces 0.002 of Poland's GDP. If this is true, then assuming every worker had productivity on that level, Poland's GDP could be produced by a labor force of about 1.4 million people. (In reality it is almost 18 million people.) Or, equivalently, keeping size of labor force at current level but increasing everyone's productivity to Coke level, Poland's GDP per capita would be well over $100,000.

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