Making Sense Of The World, One Map At A Time
The map above shows which countries are richer or poorer than the US based on GDP per capita in PPP $ dollars.
PPP $ account for the local cost of goods and services in a country rather than official exchange rates. The data comes from the IMF and is for 2025.
Below is a list both using $PPP and official exchange rates.
The map above shows which countries are richer and which are poorer than Kazakhstan’s GDP per capita of $44,446 in PPP $ dollars.
PPP $ dollars measure how far your money goes in a given country rather than official exchange rates.
Here is a list of all countries richer than Kazakhstan based on that measure:
Chris Durso and his 8 year-old son have created a punny series maps collectively titled The Foodnited States of America.
Each map takes one food item that can be worked into the name of the state.
So far they’ve created 25 maps with new ones being released regularly via the Foodiggity.com instagram account.
They’ve completed all the states and better yet you can buy them all on their website here.
While not all the states are created from a food item you’d associate with them, they’re all quite clever.
Below are the ones for each state:
The map above shows the Photosynthesis of the US Corn Crop which amazingly at the peak of the growing season it produces more oxygen than the Amazon Rain Forest!
The two maps above the difference between where wheat and rice are grown in the world. The top map shows wheat and the bottom one shows rice.
The map above shows the world’s 19 countries with a nominal GDP of over $1 trillion USD including the 13 subnational states/provinces that also have a GDP over that amount in order they are:
One thing that continues to surprise me is just how big the US economy is, at least in nominal aka US dollar terms. The map above shows you could split the US economy in 3 and it would be the #1, #3 and #4 biggest economies.
Here are the sources used below:
And actually, the phenomenon is not limited to the longest day of the year but the weeks leading up it and the weeks after (the map above is actually from June 28th).
Here’s why:
