Misleading Statistics: The Case Of Luxembourg By Will Rayner: An Analysis
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According to “Misleading Statistics: The Case of Luxembourg,” written by Will Rayner on September 18, 2014, statistics, such as GDP per capita, can be misleading especially when comparing and contrasting different countries. In Luxembourg, the GDP per capita, or the money the average person makes is 110,423. This number is a very high compared to United States, but this stat is very misleading according to Will Rayner. He states, “... half of the country’s economic activity is generated by foreign workers, but those workers live outside Luxembourg are not counted for the population. This basically means that the people who do not live in Luxembourg (they live in France, Germany, or Belguim), are counted for the GDP per capita, but not for the