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Sunday, January 28, 2007

Mapping Economic Productivity


Economically France is just a colony of Paris while Germany is much more diverse

Geographically based Economic data (G-Econ) is a collection of maps which show economic activity in countries. A higher spike means more productivity. The maps are pretty easy to understand and each country has its own map. (Hat tip: TDAXP via Alberto López Núñez)

4 comments:

  1. Ukraine is interesting. Other than Kiev, the supposedly "Western" and Ukrainian half is much poorer than the Russian half. I would assume that's natural resources, but it still surprised me.

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  2. I guess when Ukraine was being "built up" the Soviets thought it best to give the commanding heights of the economy to the Russian sector.

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  3. Anonymous10:11 PM

    Is the value (especially the height of the cones) on this map relative or absolute? Cuz by just looking at it I can't tell the difference between Japan and Zimbabwe, which shouldn't happen.

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  4. The cones only use intra-country data.

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