Between 2022 and 2024 Egypt’s GDP fell by 18%. Over exactly the same two years, it rose by 68%. Both numbers are real, both come from the same source, and nothing about the country changed in between. Find out why — in six SQL queries, in your browser.
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Same country. Same two years. Same source. The 18% never happened to the economy — it happened to the yardstick: the pound lost about half its dollar value, so a GDP figure quoted in dollars fell even as output did not.
And the honest limit: neither figure is “real” growth. Both are nominal. You cannot get real GDP by dividing these by CPI — CPI is a consumer basket, not the GDP deflator, and doing it here would tell you Egypt contracted, contradicting the World Bank’s own real-growth series. Knowing which number you’d need next is the actual skill.
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NY.GDP.MKTP.CD, 2018–2024.These are the same cited tables the 123 practice challenges run on — one source of truth, not a copy made for this page. The SQL engine is SQLite compiled to WebAssembly and runs entirely in your browser; nothing you type is sent anywhere.