Of course, GDP Per capita doesn’t account for income inequality which is far worse in Ukraine than China.
The GDP per capita is purposely misleading, Ukrainian population is on a massive decline ever since the end of the USSR source. It hit a peak right at the end of the USSR after a solid 4 decades of growth.
Literaly richer per capita because there are fewer Ukrainians though I’m sure there is more detailed analysis somewhere. As far as the Marxist analysis though Ukraine never recovered from the shock therapy so this is completely meaningless, see Ukraine: the invasion of capital
Interestingly, it looks like the population growth rate was lowering slowly from the 50’s due to a steadily increasing mortality rate, which was then exacerbated by a precipitous drop in birth rate around the years of the collapse. Bonk
