The magic formula for GDP global trend is driven by three components: population growth, productivity growth, and debt growth (where debt growth is really just servicing of previous debts), but population growth is collapsing across the entire Western World plus Southeast Asia, and is only still positive in the Middle East and Africa where birth rates are falling fastest except for China.

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Raoul Pal

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I call it the magic formula for GDP...rate of GDP is driven by population growth productivity growth and debt growth

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Peter Zeihan: Why Europe & China Won't Survive the Next DecadeRaoul Pal The Journey Man
Created: 8/12/2026, 10:17:10 PM

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