Poland high in the ranking of The Economist weekly
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Poland came sixth in the ranking of countries whose economies have dealt best with the pandemic. The list was prepared by British The Economist weekly.
Journalists analyzed economic data from 23 countries. They took into account, among others GDP growth and state debt.
The Economist ranking was headed by: Denmark, Slovenia, Sweden, Norway, Chile, and – ex aequo with Poland – Ireland.
The authors of the list noted that countries whose economy is not largely based on tourism were not exposed to travel bans related to the pandemic much better. Therefore, it is not surprising that Spain is the last place, for which tourism accounts for around 14 percent of GDP. During the analyzed period, Spain's GDP fell by 6.6 percent.
Among other factors, the stock exchange performance was taken into account – as analysts emphasized in the summaries of the year on the Warsaw Stock Exchange, all major indices recorded double-digit rates of return.
