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Yeah, but it's sad they haven't made any effort to correct for population density. So it's only the overall colour of a country that carries information, the hu

• adventured 13y ago
  If you're saying that the hues correlate primarily to population density as a whole (eg blue vs yellow), that's blatantly false. I believe it's consistent world-wide, that within any given country, the metros earn far more than rural areas, so that's a correct relationship as well. They've also color adjusted within the countries properly. There is a very noticeable difference between different economic zones in China for example (ditto Brazil, or Japan, and so on).
  • vmarsy 13y ago
    I think Tombone5 meant Saturation and not Hue. There are only 4 colors in that chart, the Saturation represent the density of population. It's true that if you don't pay attention to the caption, you might think that the lighter areas within a country represent the richest people in that country, but no, it's only the population density.
    • adventured 13y ago
      I think you're probably spot on, re: hue vs saturation. Thanks for that. It would seem true that the higher population densities (within a given country) would almost always correlate to higher incomes (relative to that country) as well. I'm not aware of too many cases where the cities with the highest population densities in a country don't tend to have among the highest average incomes as well.