{"id":500354,"date":"2026-02-24T05:59:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T05:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/500354\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T05:59:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T05:59:12","slug":"canada-is-now-poorer-than-alabama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/500354\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada is now &#8220;poorer than Alabama&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, Canadian news outlet \u2018The Globe and Mail\u2019 provoked controversy and furious social media discussions with one of its analyses.<\/p>\n<p>In it, the author asserted that, based on per capita GDP adjusted for Purchasing Power Parity (PPP), Canada was now poorer than the U.S. state of Alabama.<\/p>\n<p>According to IMF figures, Canada\u2019s per capita GDP (PPP) in 2024 was $64,610 (international dollars).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/iGPqM-ratio-of-u.s-vs-canadian-per-capita-gdp-ppp-.png\" width=\"1640\" height=\"830\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Recently, Canadian news outlet \u2018The Globe and Mail\u2019 provoked controversy and furious social media discussions with one of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":500355,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[64,63,99,164],"class_list":["post-500354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-business","tag-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=500354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/500355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}