Tuesday, July 21, 2009

This is the Map that seems to be used by the media

List countries by per capita GDP, starting with the lowest. Create a group with the lowest per capita GDP, adding one at a time, until the countries in the group have a total GDP equaling 5% of the global GDP. Those countries would have about three billion people. Here is a map omitting those countries:
Source: Strange Maps

People sometimes put pins in maps to mark the location of events that interest them. As a thought experiment, put a pin in the map above every time you read a news story, placing the pin in the country in which the event recounted takes place. You would wind up with very, very few pins in the white areas in the map above.

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