BIP in Kaufkraftparität (KKP) für ca. 200 Länder, Vergleich von 2000 (x-Achse) mit 2025 (y-Achse) auf einer Log-Log-Skala. Jeder Punkt ist ein Land; Die Fläche des Kreises ist proportional zu seiner Bevölkerung im Jahr 2025, die Farben zeigen die Region (Asien, Europa, Naher Osten, Afrika, Amerika, Ozeanien).
Die diagonalen Linien zeigen an, wie oft eine Volkswirtschaft reicher geworden ist: Die durchgezogene Linie bedeutet „keine Veränderung“ (gleiches BIP in den Jahren 2000 und 2025), gestrichelte Linien sind das 1,5-fache, 2-fache, …, 16-fache höhere BIP im Jahr 2025. Länder oberhalb der Hauptdiagonale wuchsen schneller als der Weltdurchschnitt; die darunter blieben zurück.
Datenquelle: IWF Data Mapper-Export (BIP, Kaufkraftparität) und IWF-Bevölkerungsdaten, Jahre 2000 und 2025.
Von ollowain86
5 Kommentare
Imo I don’t think this should be a scatter plot because the inherent relationship between x and y is just subtraction. A bar chart can convey the difference between the two in a cleaner format
Maybe 5 of these data points are even a bit legible… This data is not beautiful.
This just isn’t legible.
The title is „who crushed it“. So „who crushed it“ should be represented on either the vertical or horizontal axis, not like it is here on an almost arbitrary diagonal axis. It should be immediately obvious, and in this graph, it just isn’t. Intuitively, either the countries at the top, or the ones on the right, should be the ones that „crushed it“. Instead, they’re all squished together on a diagonal line, which makes it *very* difficult to see what this is trying to show you.
Even just rotating this 45° clockwise and using a different scale would help.
I cannot read anything. This is NOT beautiful!
I think a plot with (X = GDP per capita in 2000) and (Y = annual compound growth rate of GDP per capita between 2000 and 2025) would be more informative? At least it would show you whether there is convergence (poorer economies are growing faster, catching up) or not, accounting for population growth as well.
In your chart, if a country’s population grows by 20% but GDP per capita stagnates, they would still be „crushing it“, which I don’t think is an accurate statement.