Archive for the 'GDP' Category

Percent of US economy collected in taxes by US Federal Government

Day 9 of 28 Days of Tax Data

From Perot Charts

I almost forgot about Ross Perot and his charts. This is from a site someone set up (can’t figure out who) with some of them updated up until 2007:

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Emergence of China, India, and Brazil in the World Economy

Created by Joe Swainson, recent graduate of University Arts London (Camberwell College). He created this poster to show the shift in our world economy with emergence of certain markets. Countries covered are: United States, Japan, Germany, United Kingdom, France, Italy, Russia, Brazil, India, China. Data sources are United Nations historical data and Goldman Sachs forecasting data.

Each circle represents the size of the nation’s economy every decade from 1970 to 2050. The countries are ranked by GDP each decade from largest to smallest. Pay attention to the forecast for China, India and Brazil

GDP of 10 countries

If you are interested in having your work posted to Visualizing Economics let me know. Send me an email at catherine[at]visualizingeconomics.com with an example and explanation of your design, the source of your data and a link to your web site.

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Stock Market & World GDP Statistical Data Sculptures

The piece consists of two layers: the lower half is a mapping of the
world’s GDP and the top half is a mapping of the derivatives volume,
alloted to the coordinates of the countries on a map.

Sculpture found via infomation aesthetics

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US Economy: 1920-2008 (Good Magazine)

Good Magazine in collaboration with Nigel Holmes created this historical survey of the US economy. The graph shows the GDP (grey) and the National Debt: real dollars (solid red line) and actual dollars (dotted red line)

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US Economy magnifying glass

[tags]United States, GDP, National Debt[/tags]

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Share of GDP: China, India, Japan, Latin America, Western Europe, United States

After coming across this graph about the share of world GDP (China, India, and US), I started to wonder what was the percentage back to 1500? The graph below shows the share of GDP over the last 500 years for China, India, Japan, Latin America, Western Europe, and United States. (Keep in mind that the change in population size will effect the size of the GDP)

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Population growth since 1500 magnifying glass

Data estimates for GDP from Angus Maddison Emeritus Professor, Faculty of Economics, University of Groningen.

See also:
Last 2,000 years of growth in world income and population

[tags]GDP, China, India, Japan, Latin America, United States, Western Europe[/tags]

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US/UK Historical Economic Series

Measuring Worth
US/UK econ & population series from 1700s. UK Gold, Earnings and Retail prices back to 1260s.
This site lets you graph data and calculate Annualized Growth Rates for various time periods

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