標題:The surprising stagnation of Asia’s middle classes

It could shake up everything from profits to politics

正文： In August Amalia Adininggar, Indonesia’s statistician-in-chief, appeared in parliament with bad news. The country’s middle class had shrunk. Between 2021 and 2024, 6m Indonesians had fallen into the “aspiring middle class”, an official euphemism for being a stone’s throw away from poverty. Asked about the grim trend the next day, Joko Widodo, then the president, deflected: “This issue exists in almost all countries.” He was not wrong. Asia’s middle class is not growing as it once did.

知識點：statistician n.

A statistician is a person who studies statistics or who works using statistics. 統計學家; 統計員

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