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Distribution of World GDP Mapped

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GDP or Gross domestic product is the market value of all final goods and services from a country in a given year. According to the World Bank is $93,864 trillion (2021).

The U.S. is the World’s largest economy, with a GDP of about $22,675 trillion. China is the second-largest economy in the World ($16,642 trillion). Tuvalu is the World’s smallest economy, with a GDP of approximately $45 million.

Reddit user BerryBlue made a fantastic cartogram showing if there were only 1000 GDP in the World, where would they be?

Each hexagon on the map approximately equals 1‰ of the World’s total nominal GDP.

2021 Nominal GDP Cartogram
Nominal GDP Cartogram

But in every country in the world, GDP is distributed very unevenly. The map below shows GDP density in the world.

World GDP Density Map
World GDP Density Map

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