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From today: https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/6v3fma/three_germanies_regional_gdp_per_capita_op/ https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/6v3fma/three

From today: https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/6v3fma/three_germanies_regional_gdp_per_capita_op/ https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/6v3fma/three_germa... also recent: https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/8/18/16162234/regional-inequality-cause https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/8/18/16162234/r... Today, Massachusetts’s GDP per capita is about double what you find in Mississippi — roughly equivalent to the gap between Switzerland and Slovakia — and it’s not getting any narrower.

rayiner 9y ago
That's a highly misleading comparison. The Switzerland-Slovakia comparison is PPP-adjusted GDP per capita. Comparisons between US states are not. Adjusted for purchasing power, the MS-MA comparison looks very different, with MA only 15% richer: https://www.advisorperspectives.com/dshort/updates/2016/10/17/median-household-purchasing-power-for-the-50-states-and-dc https://www.advisorperspectives.com/dshort/updates/2016/10/1.... That's closer than Switzerland versus Germany.
lampenrad 9y ago
It doesn't stop at the German border, though. And if you look at this map, the distinction between S and N is much less clear: https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gross_domestic_product_(GDP)_per_inhabitant,_in_purchasing_power_standard_(PPS),_by_NUTS_2_regions,_2009_(%25_of_the_EU-27_average,_EU-27%3D100).png https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gross_domestic_pro... Southern Germany, Western Austria, Northern Italy, Switzerland and parts of France: There's a big wealth cluster in the larger region around the Alps. Why? I don't know, but as a South German myself, I'm not too convinced by the claims of the article.
- treigerm 9y ago
  I remember learning about the Blue Banana (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Banana https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Banana) in high school. You can see it pretty clearly on your map.
- mpweiher 9y ago
  And it used to be the other way around, with Bavaria being very poor. Decades of Länderfinanzausgleich fixed that. Now the industries of Northrine-Westfalia have been in decline for some time, so that's been dragging everything down. And Berlin lost a lot of its aid and most of the East is also somewhat northern.

rayiner 9y ago

That's a highly misleading comparison. The Switzerland-Slovakia comparison is PPP-adjusted GDP per capita. Comparisons between US states are not. Adjusted for purchasing power, the MS-MA comparison looks very different, with MA only 15% richer: https://www.advisorperspectives.com/dshort/updates/2016/10/17/median-household-purchasing-power-for-the-50-states-and-dc https://www.advisorperspectives.com/dshort/updates/2016/10/1.... That's closer than Switzerland versus Germany.

lampenrad 9y ago

It doesn't stop at the German border, though. And if you look at this map, the distinction between S and N is much less clear: https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gross_domestic_product_(GDP)_per_inhabitant,_in_purchasing_power_standard_(PPS),_by_NUTS_2_regions,_2009_(%25_of_the_EU-27_average,_EU-27%3D100).png https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gross_domestic_pro... Southern Germany, Western Austria, Northern Italy, Switzerland and parts of France: There's a big wealth cluster in the larger region around the Alps. Why? I don't know, but as a South German myself, I'm not too convinced by the claims of the article.

treigerm 9y ago
I remember learning about the Blue Banana (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Banana https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Banana) in high school. You can see it pretty clearly on your map.
mpweiher 9y ago
And it used to be the other way around, with Bavaria being very poor. Decades of Länderfinanzausgleich fixed that. Now the industries of Northrine-Westfalia have been in decline for some time, so that's been dragging everything down. And Berlin lost a lot of its aid and most of the East is also somewhat northern.