Making Sense Of The World, One Map At A Time
The map above shows which countries remain richer per person than China in 2020 and which China has overtaken since 1950.
In 1950, China’s GDP per capita in inflation adjusted terms was just $799 per person, making it the 20th lowest in the world.
By 2020 this had risen to $17,226 per person, which still only places it 67th in the world. Here’s how that change looked like over 70 years:
It comes from this article: A genetic history of the Balkans from Roman frontier to Slavic migrations.
Here are the key things to know:
In total there were 3,422,959 farm raised ducks living in the United States that year.
Here’s the data by state and county:
The map above shows the number of Alpacas living in each US county. The data comes from the 2022 USDA Census of Agriculture.
In total they recorded 87,216 Alpacas living in the US in 851 different US countries. Here are states ranked on the number of alpacas, along with country level data:
The map above shows that Russia’s nominal GDP (according to the IMF) in 2025 $2.2 Trillion. This makes it the world’s 11th largest.
Or put another way, it is roughly the same as the GDP of Spain ($1.8 Trillion), Portugal ($320 Billion) and Andorra ($4 Billion) put together.
However, Russia has 146 million people compared to a combined 60 million in Spain (49 million), Portugal (10.6 million) and Andorra (87k).
And the map below shows how many Russia sized economies there are in Europe:
In 1990, China was the world’s 11th largest economy in nominal GDP terms at $397 Billion USD.
And when using $PPP dollars (which is an attempt to better reflect the cost of living in a country) it was still only the world’s 7th largest economy at $992 Billion.
Yet by 2025 it has become the second largest to the United States in nominal GDP terms at $20 Trillion USD and the largest in $PPP terms at $40 Trillion.
The maps below show’s China’s nominal GDP relative to the 10 economies that were larger than it was in nominal GDP terms in 1990 (plus Australia).
They show the difference in size between them in 1990, the year they roughly become equal, and finally the difference in size in 2025. Full data is at the bottom of the page.
The maps below build up the world based on the share of the population who are immigrants.
The map above shows whether your country has more immigrants (people born abroad who live there now) or emigrants (people born in the country but now living in another one).
The data is for 2024 and comes from the United Nations International Migrant Stock report.
On the surface the map is what you’d expect, North America, Australia, Western Europe and the Gulf States have more immigrants than emigrants.
However, there some surprising things.
For example, North Korea has more immigrants than emigrants, while the much richer South Korea is the opposite. Although it should be noted that the South Korea’s absolute numbers of each are much larger than the North.
Also, Portugal is the lone exception in Western Europe to have more emigrants than immigrants.
Some more findings and full data below:
The map above shows what the world would look like if you removed all countries in the world with over 50 million people.
The remaining countries would have a combined population of just 1.8 billion, a decline of 75% from the over 8 billion who are alive today.
But the earth would only lose 67,569,201 sq km (26,088,614 sq miles) of land or around 45% of the earth’s total land area.
Spain becomes the world’s most populous country with 49,077,984 people. And Canada would become the world’s largest country by area and 7th most populous.
Full list of the 30 countries removed (with population figures) and a few other observations: