Comparing Chinese provinces with countries (2011)(economist.com)
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Comparing Chinese provinces with countries (2011)
http://www.economist.com/content/chinese_equivalents
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The GDP per capita tab is really interesting if you want to estimate the life standard of each province. GDP itself is interesting for the "global power"/influence of each province over another one.
Nothing too surprising here. The more urbanized coastal provinces and cities (Beijing, Shanghai, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Guangdong) have much better GDP per capita than the more rural inland provinces.
It would be interesting to see a similar map for the United States. Would it be more skewed or less skewed?
It would be interesting to see a similar map for the United States. Would it be more skewed or less skewed?
Ask and you shall receive. They've done the same thing (though in slightly simpler form) with the U.S.: http://www.economist.com/blogs/dailychart/2011/01/comparing_...
There's a link on the same page:
http://www.economist.com/blogs/dailychart/2011/01/comparing_...
http://www.economist.com/blogs/dailychart/2011/01/comparing_...
I'd be curious to see how it compares per-capita.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_GDP_per...
The information is there and you can look up the countries yourself.
The information is there and you can look up the countries yourself.
Also too bad this is just GDP comparison not GDP per capita which might more clearly drive home the disparity in lifestyle between the 2/3 of China where people make about as much as people do in Egypt or Mongolia and the 1/3 of China that's more like Argentina or Russia.