Comparing Chinese provinces with countries (2011)

[Steko]

Some of the comparisons are super dated e.g. the GDP figure they give for Indonesia is 1/3 the 2014 number although Guangdong is growing fast too.

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.

[jguegant]

You can click on the tab: GDP per capita. And there you will see that Guangdong is as rich as kazakhstan.

[jguegant]

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.

[zhemao]

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?

[pdabbadabba]

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_...

[carlosgg]

There's a link on the same page:

http://www.economist.com/blogs/dailychart/2011/01/comparing_...