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Gross domestic product (GDP) estimates the value of goods and services that an economy produces in a year, but in a worldwide context, it is commonly depicted using country-level data. The maps below illustrate how GDP is distributed at the regional level.
It should be noted that global income inequality is vast. The considerable majority of the world is impoverished. The poorer half of the world, nearly 4 billion people, live on less than $6.70 a day.
High-income regions with the highest GDP are almost entirely concentrated in a few temperate zones, and 15% of the global population produces half of the world’s GDP.
On the map below, half of the world’s GDP is contributed by 3.6% of its land area.
The map below shows continents split into regions with a Gross Domestic Product of one trillion dollars.
