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GDP per Capita

Hans Rosling debunks myths about “developing world”

by Catherine on September 16, 2009

From a TED Talk in June 2006. What I love is the way he uses humor to make many of his points. Other good things in the video:

Challenges preconceive notions people have about the subject.
Talks to the data and interacts with it.
He places the data in historical context by explaining what happened in each country.
The data visualization is the presentation, not just a background slide for his talk.
Performs research on his target audience (i.e. students) to understand what they need to know.
The presentation is shot from more than one camera, showing him and the screen from different angles.

Watching him I see how controlling the display from his laptop is an obstacle. What he needs a way to interact directly with the screen through touch and gesture.

Tagged as: GDP per Capita, Text, United States, Video, World

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North America Income, Education, Employment: 2006

by Catherine on November 23, 2008

in Other

Screenshot from an interactive mapping tool from OECD Regional Statistics. While you can look at any region I choose North America. The color indicates the GDP per capita: blue is low income while red is high income. The graph on the right is comparing % of population with high school education vs unemployment. (The red circle, indicating very high income, belongs to Washington DC)

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[tags]United States, OECD, Mexico, Canada[/tags]

Tagged as: Canada, Choropleth Map, Education, GDP, GDP per Capita, Mexico, North America, OECD, Population, Scatter plot, Unemployment, United States

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Does Higher Income Increases Happiness?

by Catherine on April 17, 2008

in Uncategorized

From the New York Times

[tags]Happiness, United States, Income[/tags]

Tagged as: Choropleth Map, Distribution of Income, GDP per Capita, Income - Average, Median, IRS, Scatter plot, United States, World

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Income of United States, Japan, India, China, and Indonesia since 1500

by Catherine on January 27, 2008

in Country Growth from 1500, VE Infographics

I am comparing the GDP per Capita of the United States with Japan, India, China, and Indonesia over the last 500 years. (GDP per Capita for each country is in 1990 international Geary-Khamis dollars, calculated from purchasing power parities (PPPs) of currencies and average prices of commodities.)

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

[tags]income, GDP per Capita, United States, China, India, Indonesia, Japan[/tags]

Tagged as: Angus Maddison, Asia, China, East Asia, GDP, GDP per Capita, Income - Average, India, Indonesia, Japan, Line Graph, Median, Population, United States

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US/UK Historical Economic Series

by Catherine on January 13, 2008

in Other

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

Tagged as: Dow Jones Industrial Average, GDP, GDP per Capita, Gold, Population, United Kingdom, United States, Wages

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World GDP Density Map

by Catherine on January 5, 2008

in Uncategorized

I found this map of the world’s GDP Density via an Econbrowser post referencing an 1999 paper by John Gallup, Jeffrey Sachs and Andrew Mellinger.
GDP Density = GDP per capita * Number of people per square kilometer.
The darker the colors, the higher the GDP density.

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