Russia's economy will contract by about a third as a result of the Ukraine war and sanctions.
Inaccurate ●●●●●
“its economy is set also to contract by about a third”
- Said on
- 7 March 2022 · Project Syndicate column (sentence about Russia, which "is not enduring" Ukraine's physical destruction)
- Source
- The Ukraine War's Multifaceted Economic Fallout · Project Syndicate
- Should come true
- No date given
- How sure they sounded
- is set to
- Categories
- EconomyGeopolitics
- Importance
- 3 of 5 · Size of the sanctions shock to Russia's economy, a country-level outcome with geopolitical weight.
Outcome
Inaccurate
Inferred window: 2022-2023, the first years of the war and sanctions. Rosstat's first estimate put Russia's 2022 real GDP decline at only about 2.1% (later revised smaller), and the economy grew in 2023, nowhere near a one-third contraction.
- https://macaubusiness.com/russian-economy-contracts-by-2-1-in-2022-rosstat/
- https://interfax.com/newsroom/top-stories/86980/
History
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