There are major statistical differences between the two countries. The size of their economies is very close but hardly meaningful because Ethiopia has 105 million people to Kenya's 48.5 million. Though GDP per capita growth is very similar at about 4%, Kenya's economy is much stronger and Ethiopia is plunged in civil war. Ethiopia's inflation is three times Kenya's and; its GDP per capita about 60% of Kenya's. Life expectancy is the same.
Ethiopia vs Kenya: Economic Indicators Comparison Kenya with a GDP of $87.9B ranked the 66th largest economy in the world, while Ethiopia ranked 68th with $84.4B. By GDP 5-years average growth and GDP per capita, Kenya and Ethiopia ranked 25th vs 2nd and 153rd vs 181st, respectively. Gross Domestic Product & Income StatEthiopiaKenyaGDP$84.4B $87.9B GDP growth, 1 year7.7% 6% GDP growth, 5-years average9.3% 5.6% Population105M 48.5M GDP per capita$772 $1.7k GDP per capita growth4.05% 3.9% Purchasing Power Parity conversion factor9.97 49.97 Price level ratio of PPP conversion factor GDP to market exchange rate0.38 0.49 GDP per capita, PPP adjusted$2.3k $3.7k GNI, Atlas method$86.7B $83.1B GNI per capita$790 $1.6k GNI, PPP adjusted$219.4B $176.7B GNI per capita, PPP adjusted$2k $3.4k Financial system and Human development StatEthiopiaKenyaIncome Tax Rate35% 30% Corporate Tax Rate30% 30% Inflation, consumer prices13.8% 4.7% Inflation, GDP deflator12.5% 2.8% Unemployment1.8% 9.3% Economic Freedom Index53.6 55.3 Personal Freedom Index5.44 6.48 Human Freedom Index5.33 6.61 Property Rights Index36.5 63.2 Judicial Effectiveness Index45.1 48.6 Business Freedom Index48.6 55 Fiscal Health Index79.2 13.5 Labor Freedom Index57.6 55.8 Investment Freedom Index35 55 Financial Freedom Index20 50 Trade Freedom Index60.8 60.4 Monetary Freedom Index62.7 75 Government Spending Index90.8 79.6 Tax Burden Index77.4 78.7 Government Integrity Index29.4 28.2 Corruption Perceptions Index34 27 Life expectancy at birth, years65.9 65.9 Suicide mortality rate, per 100,000 people7.2 3.2 Mortality caused by road traffic injury, per 100,000 people26.7 27.8 Intentional homicides, per 100,000 people7.6 5 International tourism, number of arrivals849k 1.4M
So how does any of that prove that the Ethiopians don't dope?
The evidence is that it's a neighbouring country with a very similar culture, the exact same financial incentives for athletes to dope, the same dodgy Spanish and Italian managers and coaches, and the same suspicious domination of distance running that began almost exactly the period EPO came on the scene.
Anybody with any semblance of intelligence, who has spent more than a microsecond considering these countries, knows that Kenya and Ethiopia are very distinct countries, each with their own very different tribal origins, languages and cultures.
Your ignorance on everything, including your own ignorance, is breathtaking. Please do the World a favour and get back under your rock.
The evidence is that it's a neighbouring country with a very similar culture, the exact same financial incentives for athletes to dope, the same dodgy Spanish and Italian managers and coaches, and the same suspicious domination of distance running that began almost exactly the period EPO came on the scene.
Anybody with any semblance of intelligence, who has spent more than a microsecond considering these countries, knows that Kenya and Ethiopia are very distinct countries, each with their own very different tribal origins, languages and cultures.
Your ignorance on everything, including your own ignorance, is breathtaking. Please do the World a favour and get back under your rock.
Thanks.
The doping apologists here never fail to crack me up.
Two neighbouring countries in East Africa, with absolutely near zero shared ethnicity (Ethiopians have more Arabic and European ancestry than sub-saharan), both dominate distance running.
Is it due to a shared culture of doping? NO. DON'T BE SILLY YOU IGNORANT RACIST! ETHIOPIA AND KENYA ARE COMPLETELY DIFFERENT CULTURALLY!!
Is it due to both being the two genetically most adapted ethnic groups for distance running out of hundreds on Earth, who just happen to live side by side despite little common genetics? OF COURSE!! ETHIOPIANS LOOKE LIKE GREYHOUNDS, AND KENYANS HAVE AERODYNAMICALLY SHAPED CRANIUMS! IT'S OBVIOUS!!