The gap between richer and poorer countries is widening steadily. This emerged from the World Bank data. Even if the GDP (Gross Domestic Product) per capita is on average also grew up in low-income countries, the difference in height compared to the world's major economies continues to increase.
In the 1990 the difference between the average GDP per capita in low-income countries than in higher income was $ 18,373. 2015 does however record a gap increased considerably, amounting to US $ 39,099.
As shown in the graphic, since 1960 the advanced economies have considerably increased the distance with the countries of the Third World. In the visualization were choosen three representative nations for each income group, to which has been added Italy, ranked among the states with high income.
Here's the viz, published on Info Data - Il Sole 24 Ore at this link: http://www.infodata.ilsole24ore.com/2017/02/21/piu-pil-pro-capite-tutti-mondo-sempre-piu-diviso-disuguale/
Click below and go to the interactive Viz!
Working for Il Sole 24 Ore means also analyse things I never analysed before. This time I wrote an article about how much Europe (and Italy) grows, looking at the last data about GDP.
During the fourth quarter of 2016, which ended in December, the italian gross domestic product (GDP) grew by 0.2%, with a slight slowdown compared to the previous semester. Comparing the data to the fourth quarter of last year, growth was 1.1%.
In the euro area GDP grew by 0.4%, while in the EU28 does record a 0.5% from the previous quarter. Over the same quarter the previous year, seasonally adjusted GDP increased by 1.7% instead of 1.8% in the euro area and the EU28.
You can read my full article (in italian) on InfoData Blog - Il Sole 24 Ore, at this link:
I created two visualization for this article. One related to the growth rate of GDP and the percentage change, compared with the previous semester and the fourth quarter of the last year.
The other one, simpler, show the current prices in million of euro, looking at the trends from 2005 to 2015.
GDP
Filippo Mastroianni
2/17/2017 11:28:00 AM
Filippo Mastroianni
2/17/2017 11:28:00 AM


