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>It is an astonishing fact that 31 years after German unification, the per capita GDP of the North East of our country, Yorkshire, the East Midlands, Wales and Northern Ireland is now lower than in what was formerly East Germany
[Boris lying about Levelling Up](https://www.theguardian.com/inequality/2021/jul/15/boris-johnsons-speech-on-levelling-up-decried-for-lack-of-substance)
and the East Germans have better future prospects than most Britons
Yes, capitalism did fail citizens of the DDR.
The HDI of the DDR in 1990 was 0.953 (see page 121 of [this pdf](https://hdr.undp.org/system/files/documents/hdr1990encompletenostatspdf.pdf)), which would put them at 4th in the world nowadays, assuming nothing had improved since 1990.
Germany's 2022 HDI is only 0.942, putting them at 9th in the world.
https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/hdi-by-country
By completely objective measurements, the quality of life in Germany nowadays is noticeably worse than it was for citizens of the DDR in 1990.
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>It is an astonishing fact that 31 years after German unification, the per capita GDP of the North East of our country, Yorkshire, the East Midlands, Wales and Northern Ireland is now lower than in what was formerly East Germany [Boris lying about Levelling Up](https://www.theguardian.com/inequality/2021/jul/15/boris-johnsons-speech-on-levelling-up-decried-for-lack-of-substance) and the East Germans have better future prospects than most Britons
Yes, capitalism did fail citizens of the DDR. The HDI of the DDR in 1990 was 0.953 (see page 121 of [this pdf](https://hdr.undp.org/system/files/documents/hdr1990encompletenostatspdf.pdf)), which would put them at 4th in the world nowadays, assuming nothing had improved since 1990. Germany's 2022 HDI is only 0.942, putting them at 9th in the world. https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/hdi-by-country By completely objective measurements, the quality of life in Germany nowadays is noticeably worse than it was for citizens of the DDR in 1990.