On a per capita basis, we're at the bottom. Little has changed in Carter's philosophy. He still believes that government spending and government planned economies are the hope of the world. Liberals still haven't figured out what makes some nations rich and other nations poor. It's not natural resources or low population density.
Japan is our biggest foreign competitor in electronics and automobiles.
Let's give Jimmy Carter a test. You would think that this country must be doomed, unless it received large external donations. The country, of course, is Hong Kong. A business can be opened in Hong Kong the day you arrive. It might take you two years in India.