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    South America’s richest populations in GDP PPP/capita

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    1. vladgrinch on

      In 1980, Venezuela was a petro-state and the “shining star” of the region, boasting the highest per capita production. However, the lack of diversification, institutional decay and hyperinflation during Chavismo have led to a tragic decline, leaving at the bottom of the rankings by 2026. The fall of Nicolás Maduro and future

    5. oberwolfach on

      It always surprises me that Argentina is still quite high in GDP per capita, and not far behind its neighbors Chile and Uruguay, despite the latter two being beacons of sound economic management and Argentina being infamous for the opposite. Of course, it has slipped in relative terms (as the map shows, it was far richer than Chile and Uruguay in 1980, but is now a little behind), but it’s not a catastrophe like Venezuela.

    7. ApprehensiveScale868 on

      This is a horrific visualisation – the colour coding totally distorts what is actually meaningful.

    8. ulixes1991 on

      Found oil in Surinam as well, might be operational in 2028. Potential to be a powerhouse, with preservation of biodiversity. Big IF is corruption

    9. GentlemanSeal on

      The color coding is stupid, making it seem like all these countries are 5-10x better off. 

      Of course, there has been solid development but a lot of the change in values can be attributed to the devaluing of the US dollar and not any increase in wealth or wellbeing. 

    11. Baron_von_Zoldyck on

      Brazil is just too big to have data like this making sense in It’s context. The inequality between regions is astounding as the Northeast is heavily populated and quite poor and the southern brazilian cone is also heavily populated but richer, while almost whole argentinian population lives around Buenos Aires and the Rio de la Plata Basin and people in the sparsely populated Patagonia tend to be well off.

    13. LupusDeusMagnus on

      Argentina’s surprising to me because it has a lower GDP and higher population than the state of São Paulo, so it must have a very high PPP multiplier.

      I wonder how big is the banding in Brazil, too. Going by 2023, since it’s the last year I have data for Maranhão, Brazil’s poorest state, and applying the Brazilian PPP multiplier of 2.45 as per 2023 IMF, it’d have a GDP PPP per capita of 8.9k, for comparison, in that year Brazil’s was 21.1K, my state of Paraná would be 24K (about 2.6 times higher) and our neighbour to the South was 27K (basically 3 times higher).

    14. cancerinos on

      Now if only GDP per capita meant anything in terms of people’s wealth or quality of life…

    15. Anxious_Hall359 on

      Phew im glad not to see Aruba’s before and after ahahah. We had Guyana but in reverse

    20. Known_Salary_4105 on

      Absolutely great map.

      What would the GDP of Venezuela be if the 8 million productive people who have left were still there, BEING productive?

      The question answers itself.

      Do not be surprised if two years from now, Argentina is second only to Guyana.

    21. mad_max_999 on

      This is the effect of illegal sanctions on a country. Think that in 1980 in Venezuela those money were held by a very few minority of hyper rich people, now at least they’re much better distributed

    23. Zchavago on

      Socialism didn’t work this time for Venezuela. I guess they’ll have to try it again. Maybe someone will finally get it right.

    26. Timo-the-hippo on

      Yeah Guyana is definitely fake. I know people from there and it’s poor as hell.

    29. Impossible_Soup_1932 on

      What does that even mean, gdp by purchasing power? One shows the economic output, the other how much spending power the population has