GDP as PPP mistakes

[Dan Ungureanu]

In no meaningful way does Cuba have an equivalent GDP per capita, în PPP  - with Romania (for instance) 

https://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=d5bncppjof8f9_&hl=en_US&dl=en_US#!ctype=l&strail=false&bcs=d&nselm=h&met_y=ny_gdp_pcap_pp_cd&scale_y=lin&ind_y=false&rdim=region&idim=country:MDA:UKR:ROM:CHN:CUB&ifdim=region&tstart=595378800000&tend=1415833200000&hl=en_US&dl=en_US&ind=false

current or constant dollars 

Also, even the GDP per capita of Cuba, either in current or constant dollars,  is in no way comparable to Romania. 

https://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=d5bncppjof8f9_&hl=en_US&dl=en_US#!ctype=l&strail=false&bcs=d&nselm=h&met_y=ny_gdp_pcap_cd&scale_y=lin&ind_y=false&rdim=region&idim=country:MDA:UKR:ROM:CUB&ifdim=region&tstart=595378800000&tend=1415833200000&hl=en_US&dl=en_US&ind=false

It happens that I know both countries well. 

If the World Development Indicators of the World Bank  are to be trusted, they need at least to be meaningful - that is, to be significative at least within an order of magnitude. When the range of error is equivalent to an order of magnitude, the data are meaningless.