World Economic Output
A rotating map of the world which shows where economic creation is concentrated.
If he had been a character in a Russian novel, he would have gone and hanged himself in the barn. As it was, he merely sat staring before him and keeping perfectly rigid.
— PG Wodehouse, The Nodder
A rotating map of the world which shows where economic creation is concentrated.
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Pretty cool. It would be even better if it was interactive and you could spin it around and zoom in and out.
I can actually make out Moscow, St. Petersburg and Kyiv, as well as Donbass, the second most-prosperous region of Ukraine.
The wealth of Russia is extremely concentrated. A couple years ago I read an article stating that 80% of Russia’s entire wealth is located within the Moscow city limits. For Ukraine the figure was 40% of Ukraine’s wealth is in Kyiv. US is more dispersed, which is probably a healthy thing. New York only accounts for about 20% of America’s wealth, even though it has most of the stock exchanges.
Comment by Aleks — August 9, 2008 @ 1:15 am