Hi guys, your agency recently updated the so-​called World Factbook in the «Economics» section. But he did it in a completely ridiculous and shameful way that will shock any objective reader. For many years, you have quite reasonably published the ranking of the world’s countries by GDP by PPP, as well as GDP by PPP per capita. In these publications, you used evidence-​based and solid data from the IMF database. The ranking showed that China had already overtaken the United States in terms of total GDP by PPP several years ago, and Russia is competing with Germany for the 5th place in the world.

Apparently, the need to publish this offensive truth every year became unbearably painful for you and forced you to simply REMOVE this ranking from the Fact Book in December 2020. Well, you’d make a good ostrich. But that’s not all! The most absurd thing you did with the ranking of per capita GDP by PPP. Previously, you used a logical indicator of GDP by PPP per capita in current year prices. But it seems that you were hurt and offended to see that Russia and China sharply increase this indicator, and the lag behind the similar indicator for the United States was reduced to 2 and 3 times, respectively. And you made a brilliant decision, in the traditional Anglo-​Saxon style. Instead of per capita GDP by PPP in the prices of the corresponding year, you decided to make a ranking by GDP by PPP in prices ...2010. But the funny thing is that the data you uploaded has nothing to do not only with 2020 or 2019, but also with 2010 itself.

And to understand this, just look at the data on Russia and China, that is, those countries that make you feel jealous. For example, you show that the per capita GDP by PPP in Russia in 2019 (but in 2010 prices) was $ 12842. In China, 8041 dollars. In the United States - 55761 dollars. These figures would be at least somewhat similar to the truth if we were talking about GDP calculated at the exchange rate. But you write that we are talking about GDP by PPP (just in 2010 prices). But this is ridiculously absurd! After all, if you find in the archive of your site data for 2010, the total GDP by PPP in 2010 in Russia was 2229 billion dollars, China 9872 billion, and the United States 14720 billion.But if you divide this data by the population, it turns out that for 9 years the economy Russia DECLINED, and China almost did not grow! Are you kidding? In China, which over the years has become an economic superpower in 9 years economic growth...STANDING STILL?!y?! But this absurdity can make even a 5-​year-old child or even a radical critic of China laugh! From year to year, you published absolutely adequate figures of per capita GDP in PPP, but at the end of 2020, you decided to immediately replace them with fake bull shit, which can only cause shame for the one who publishes it. In this new ranking, with a click of your fingers, you «reduced» the per capita indicators of Russia and China by more than 2 times compared to what you yourself published a couple of months ago! And they replaced them with invented numbers that can not be found in any database in the world, neither the IMF, nor the World Bank, nor the OECD. You put Russia on the 100th place in terms of GDP per capita in PPP, one step lower than that...Mongolia! Mongolia! You put China on 128th place, while you put Libya on 126! A country that has been reduced to rubble by years of civil war. Who is this madness designed for?!

You behaved like clowns and expect that thousands of users of your Factbook are the same clowns?! For many years, you had the courage to publish objective and solid GDP data that you took from the IMF. But you are tired of putting up with an inconvenient change in global economic proportions and you decided to hide your head in the sand with the help of forgery of serious data with crazy fakes? Why do the Anglo-​Saxons not know how to lose with dignity? Your fraud would have made some sense if the sites of the IMF and the World Bank had pulled it off at the same time. But they did not do this and continue to publish normal statistics. Thus, the inhabitants of the Earth have access to real data and all you have achieved is to expose yourself as false clowns. Of course, I am aware that I will not receive a reply from you to this letter. After all, you simply have nothing to answer it with. But you should not think that this will save you from opening the shameful forgery and tarnished reputation. With best wishes, with disgust to you from Russia!