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Comparing Chinese provinces with countries (2011)

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Re: Comparing Chinese provinces with countries (2011)

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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?

Re: Comparing Chinese provinces with countries (2011)

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post #2

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?

There's a link on the same page:

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

Re: Comparing Chinese provinces with countries (2011)

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post #3
post #2

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?

There's a link on the same page: http://www.economist.com/blogs/dailychart/2011/01/comparing_...

I'd be curious to see how it compares per-capita.

Re: Comparing Chinese provinces with countries (2011)

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post #2

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?

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_...

Re: Comparing Chinese provinces with countries (2011)

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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.

Re: Comparing Chinese provinces with countries (2011)

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post #6

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.

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

Re: Comparing Chinese provinces with countries (2011)

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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.

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

My mistake thank you!

Re: Comparing Chinese provinces with countries (2011)

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post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's a link on the same page: 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.