Dude im.sorry China during Mao's era was punching wayyyyyy below her weight. In fact they were one of the poorest country in Asia(very few countries in Asia were poorer than china back then). China was even poorer than India and Pakistan at one point. If china jad carried with those maoist policies they would have gotten even poorer and worse today, peobably the CCP would have being toppled actually by now. So we can say Deng brutal revolutionary reforms actually saved the party. China back then was just a bigger version of N.Korea. you can also say there are things N.Korea achieved in the 90s/2000s that S.Korea hasnt achieved today. Lol In fa t there are even things India jas achived in the 80s that S.Korea hasnt achived today. Lol But we all know who has been far more sucessful evonomically and industrially..S.Korea is actually punching wayyyyy above their weight for such a small country of 50million to be honest. If they had even half of your countrys size and population they will be even more powerful than now.
South Korea and China had the exact same life expectancy until the 1980s.
Life expectancy is the 1 statistic that doesn't lie as it can't be gamed or covered up.
India and Pakistan had like $10 more nominal GDP which is utterly meaningless due to the 1980s currency devaluation.
however their life expectancy was always decades behind China's. In fact India only matched Mao era China's life expectancy in the 2010s.
India and Pakistan have never in all of their history gotten anywhere close to Chinese social indicators. GDP per capita is a very rough measure for China.
