World Income Mapped by Location

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2011/03/age-of-man/map-interactive#b02g21t20w14

by jamesbritt • 12 years ago

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jamesbritt• 12 years ago

There are more data there but the map that greets you is quite striking, and shows income distribution across the globe.

Tombone5• 12 years ago

Yeah, but it's sad they haven't made any effort to correct for population density. So it's only the overall colour of a country that carries information, the hues just tell you where people live (but you might mistake them for meaning something else, be careful!)

adventured6• 12 years ago

If you're saying that the hues correlate primarily to population density as a whole (eg blue vs yellow), that's blatantly false. I believe it's consistent world-wide, that within any given country, the metros earn far more than rural areas, so that's a correct relationship as well. They've also color adjusted within the countries properly. There is a very noticeable difference between different economic zones in China for example (ditto Brazil, or Japan, and so on).

adventured6• 12 years ago

I always find the common note on CO2 emissions, regarding the US per capita emissions as being higher even though China's overall is now higher, to be heavily context dropping.

The US economy is twice the size of China's, and the US manufacturing output is still larger than China's, and we put out less CO2. The reality is, the US economy is radically more efficient when it comes to CO2 emissions compared to China. US per capita GDP is between nine and ten times higher than China, but CO2 emissions per capita are four times higher.

There's a lot of room for improvement, and we should keep improving, but China isn't even close on economic output to CO2 output.

pattle• 12 years ago

It weird how Equatorial Guinea seems to have the highest income levels out of the whole of Africa. I wonder why that is?

kyro• 12 years ago

Worldwide demand for their pigs.

adventured6• 12 years ago

Substantial oil and gas. $26k GDP per capita (only 700,000 people).

dubfan• 12 years ago

And almost all of that money goes to dictator Obiang, his family and his cronies. Equatorial Guinea is the quintessential kleptocracy.

shacharz• 12 years ago

What are those low income islands in south and middle america?

adventured6• 12 years ago

Can you elaborate on where you mean?

pauljz• 12 years ago

Great visualization, but this would be much more interesting if it accounted for differences in income within countries as well.

TacticalCoder• 12 years ago

It's a beautiful visualization but isn't it quite misleading for China? If you don't count the EU as one block, China is the world's second economy and it is considered to have a gigantic middle-class, in the hundreds of millions (650 million chinese expected to be middle-class by 2022: that is in eight years).

I mean: the big cities in China should clearly appear in blue no?

adventured6• 12 years ago

No, the big cities shouldn't shouldn't be blue. The average person in eg Shanghai isn't earning over $12,000 per year. Purple most likely however.

"Shanghai's urban residents, with an average disposable income of 40,188 yuan (US$6,379) last year, earned the most among China's 21 provincial areas that have posted their income growth, according to the latest data."

http://www.china.org.cn/china/2013-01/26/content_27800262.ht...

World Income Mapped by Location

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