14% of the world’s population generates 73% of global income

Posted by vladgrinch

33 Comments

  1. hard to tell because the quality is so bad but “high security boarder zone” splitting up schengen is pretty funny.

  2. KungUnderBerget on

    The quality is bad and I can’t see a year, but I guess it’s 2024 since Bulgaria and Romania are put under “Future Schengen”?

  3. This doesn’t seem correct given that China alone has 17% of world GDP. You’re telling me all that other gray is only 10%?

  4. The “generation” of wealth happens everywhere, this is a map of the consolidation of wealth in the marketplace nations. Basically extractive wealth generation (mining/logging/harvesting) vs refinement (factories) vs consumption (markets). The “west” manages the flow of resources into their nations, but the wealth isn’t generated in those nations.

  5. yogurt_is_overrated on

    can we stop posting low quality images. this is not Map Porn, it’s actually terrible to look at

  6. Advanced_Poet_7816 on

    Having banking system that everyone uses and reserve currencies can make one perpetually rich. Those are just countries who are benefiting from US hegemony. 

  7. manicpossumdreamgirl on

    what’s really remarkable here is how Australia hits so far above its population. “only” 28 million people, but 10% of the top 50 cities for quality of life

  8. No-Kitchen-103 on

    And how much of that income is off the backs of people in third world countries with little or no compensation?

  9. You could cut out a big portion of northern america and still achieve almost the same numbers.

  10. Gloomy-Confection-49 on

    Weird. This map skips China, ASEAN, and India.

    China=17% of the world’s GDP
    India=4% of the world’s GDP
    ASEAN=6% of the world’s GDP

    That’s already 27% of the world’s economy.

  11. That’s a nice way to say that those nation states that have looted the global majority since colonial times

    and have constructed a world financial system that continues this model of economic domination through puppet and paid off governments

  12. asdrunkasdrunkcanbe on

    If the goal here is a create a safe “first world” where everyone is comparatively wealthy and hidden behind secure borders, then you’re compromising a lot of safety by including Israel, Greece, South Korea and what looks like Tangier.

    Just cut them off, put them on the “poor” side of the wall and leave the borders in the sea. Then you’ll have, what, 70% of global income and 13.5% of the population?

    That’s acceptable.

  13. Repulsive-Degree-816 on

    Ahah funny how you put Gibraltar strait as high security, cause they let anything pass through there