ElM, apart from your rudeness, let's look at the evidence.
Japan's GDP per capita [with negligible natural resources], is 3.5 times that of Russia [loaded with everything], 4.5 times that of Brazil, 11 times that of China , and 38 times that of India.
It looks very much as though Japan has put up a lot and continues to do so despite 20 years of post-boom bust.
Brazil should shut up and try to put up. Same for the other bricbux gang.
en.wikipedia.org
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Rank ? Country ? GDP per capita (in USD) ?
1 United States 46,859.058
2 France 46,015.921
3 Canada 45,428.225
4 Germany 44,660.407
5 United Kingdom 43,785.343
6 Italy 38,996.165
7 Japan 38,559.112
8 South Korea 19,504.545
9 Russia 11,806.947
10 Turkey 10,471.686
11 Mexico 10,234.826
12 Brazil 8,197.433
13 Iran 4,731.961
14 China 3,315.323
15 Indonesia 2,246.27
16 Egypt 2,160.891
17 Philippines 1,865.951
18 Nigeria 1,450.533
19 Pakistan 1,044.485
20 Vietnam 1,040.35
21 India 1,016.158
22 Bangladesh 506.054 >
Scroll to the bottom of this to see why India and Brazil won't ever amount to much lagriffedulion.f2s.com Data for Russia and China is here lagriffedulion.f2s.com and Russia and China could do better. China is still subject to the Smart Fraction Theory II problem described in "Why Asians Lag".
We shouldn't expect BRIC or bricbux to rule the world any time soon. China's eugenics programme which eliminated umpty million females should improve things as the remaining females choose carefully among the hordes of males on offer. Those with inadequate DNA will be winnowed from the gene pool resulting in a statistically significant improvement in intelligence. China could leap to the top of the leader board in a single bound because a LOT of females were eliminated.
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