lies, damned lies, and maps June 11, 2007
Posted by ocmpoma in : economics , trackbackStrange Maps’s latest post is of a map I’ve seen before, but can’t remember where. It’s the United States; however, the various states’ names have been replaced with those of countries whose GDP is equivalent.
So, while California is labeled as France, Wyoming is stuck with Uzbekistan. Mississippi is Chile, and Utah is Peru. Which is, as Strange Maps points out, misleading. Better to use per capita GDP, to balance out the differences caused by populations.
So, partly to satisfy my own curiosity, and partly to provide a counter to the map, I did just that. And the states are now equivalent to a different set of countries. Of course, my map has lots of repeats, and the values are approximate, sometimes being off by $500 or thereabouts, as (obviously) not every state had a country with a p.c. GDP that matched up nicely. Also note that I used nominal GDP, and not PPP weighted.
(State GDP from here; country GDP from here — both Wikipedia)
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