GDP per CapitaL

Posted by Racsom_

20 Comments

  1. belabacsijolvan on

    these are the exact kind of maps that need a single color1->color2 gradient in the legend.

    very few people are interested in looking up a particular x0%-x9% group, but most people are interested in easy comparison of countries and general trends.

  2. TywinDeVillena on

    In Spain, the Community of Madrid represents 19% of Spain’s GDP with a population that is 14% of the nation’s total.

    In France, the influence of Paris is absolutely disproportionate, by comparison. ÃŽle-de-France represents 31% of the country’s GDP, while having 17% of the nation’s population.

  3. DasWarEinerZuviel on

    Shouldn’t Switzerland be blank considering they constitutionally don’t have a capital?

  4. Substantial-Candle62 on

    I believe that a country, in which the majority of GDP is not created in the capital, is more resilient to different economic fluctuations. Meaning a GDP that is “evenly” created in all regions makes more sense.

    Smaller countries do differ (Iceland, Baltics, Luxemburg).

  5. spiringTankmonger on

    Austria is truly impressive. Vienna is quite a big city that’s also decently economically productive; it would be easy to be economically overpowered by such a capital for a country of Austria’s size.

    Really speaks to the strength of regional economies in Austria.

  6. Germany and Italy should be interpreted a bit differently since their capitals are not economic centers.

  7. Schuesselpflanze on

    Germany would be better off economically, when we’d exclude Berlin*

    Only on the first sight. Berlin isn’t economically powerful but it bears a lot of coats due to the fact that it’s the capital. The police has to protect the parliament and other governmental buildings, and the embassies. demonstrations are most likely to take place in Berlin. Etc etc…

    Those representation costs would be transferred to another city but you can’t get rid of them

  8. Super ironic about Rome.

    Edit: at one point Rome by itself probably accounted for half the gdp of all of Europe. It had a million people when most cities had 30-70k.

  9. binary_spaniard on

    A lot of this is the way that GDP is regionalized. I find hard to agree that a company that does not extract oil from Oslo should be considered GDP of Oslo mostly