This week, our infographics take stock of how China has changed between the Olympic Games in 2008 and 2022.
The opening ceremony of the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. Credit: U.S. Army/Wikimedia Commons
Global audiences will turn their eyes to Beijing when the 2022 Winter Olympic Games begin on February 4, thirteen and a half years after China hosted the summer games for the first time.
Despite its recent growth slowdown, China’s economy has changed markedly in the intervening years. Today’s China is four times richer than it was in 2008. Back then, its per capita gross domestic product put it behind countries like Iraq and El Salvador; in 2021, it ranked above Russia and Malaysia.
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