Many Westerners are extremely rich by world standards, but many more aren’t.
This is probably false.
The correct version would be something like: even poor countries contain a few insanely rich people (e.g. Kim Jong-un), and if you don’t care about how a typical person in such country lives, but only mechanically calculate the GDP per capita (i.e. assume that Kim Jong-un has fairly distributed his wealth among all citizens), it may seem their situation is actually not that bad… probably still worse than yours, but at least not extremely.
This is probably false.
The correct version would be something like: even poor countries contain a few insanely rich people (e.g. Kim Jong-un), and if you don’t care about how a typical person in such country lives, but only mechanically calculate the GDP per capita (i.e. assume that Kim Jong-un has fairly distributed his wealth among all citizens), it may seem their situation is actually not that bad… probably still worse than yours, but at least not extremely.