File talk:GDP nominal per capita world map IMF 2007.PNG

Purchasing power parity

Perhaps some consideration of Purchasing power parity should be taken into account; as the map shows in that article, the information here may or may not be entirely representative of "actual" GDPs. 68.198.113.241 (talk) 10:55, 23 October 2008 (UTC)

The USA was once in the highest level of purchasing power parity, although more Americans complain about the increasing cost of living and had to resort to shop in certain lower-price chain stores (i.e. Wal-Mart) in the last 30-35 years (the 1973 OPEC oil crisis recession). The middle-class American is currently under seige, but they are fortunate not to experience the fate of the Soviet Union in which the entire economic infrastructure collapsed, and their superpower status has ended. Economic analysis on post-boom era Japan since the early 1990's, the total 12-13 years of recession can greatly alter living standards of any nation, except Japan remains very high standard of living than nearly all of Asia. +71.102.2.206 (talk) 15:01, 15 April 2009 (UTC)

Iceland

is iceland seriously blue, wouldn't have thought of that ... - Gunnar Guðvarðarson (My Talk) 21:53, 29 November 2008 (UTC)

But, Iceland has acheived a maximum level of living standards and personal per capita in Iceland is ahead of 7/8ths of the world. However, it's economic size is small for a country of 300,000 residents who have a social welfare state to offer free health care, and the need for economic diversification was long addressed in the 2008 economic crisis when the entire Icelandic bank system failed. Iceland is not in dire straits but was a warning for the entire world along with Zimbabwe (the virtual opposite of Iceland) on the dangerous risks in the economic recession we're all in. In several unscientific polls taken in the 1990's/2000's, Iceland always was #1 (Reader's digest) or in the top 5 "happiest" countries in the world. + 71.102.2.206 (talk) 15:17, 15 April 2009 (UTC)

Republic of China (Taiwan) coloring...

If it's up to the IMF, then the R.O.C. (Taiwan) should be colored in light blue. TheAsianGURU (talk) 23:46, 18 December 2008 (UTC)

Agreed, the IMF ranks Taiwan in the top 20 of the 200 countries in the world in economic strength and stability, ranks third in Asia after Japan and Singapore. The problem is most of the international diplomatic community like the United Nations members doesn't recognize the Nationalist government-in-exile (Chinese Nationalists relocated to the island in 1949) since the P.R.C. under Mao Tse-Sung joined the UN in 1971. Taiwan, alike South Korea has prospered in the late 20th century rebuilt from war and political disaster, plus a highly educated workforce and democratic institutions, although a US CIA-backed military junta were in each country's governments until democratic reforms arrived in the 1970's/'80s. +71.102.2.206 (talk) 15:13, 15 April 2009 (UTC)

Gradient

I don't find the colour gradient easy to read, for instance I don't find it obvious to tell how Russia, Mongolia and China compare. I guess the green and yellow are not close at all. Could someone change the colours ? Thanks ! Nicolas1981 (talk) 10:24, 21 January 2009 (UTC)

Zimbabwe is the first "developed" country off the first world list, since the Mugabe regime replaced the white minority rule Rhodesia republic in 1980. About 90% of the country is in adjacent poverty, alot more than under the then oppressive Apartheid-based government by the white minority (a demographic miniscule group about 4% of the 1965 Rhodesian population). Economic policies under Mugabe are heavily flawed, destroyed hundreds of businesses and confiscated farmlands from affluent white Rhodesians in a "land retrieval" program to indigenous Africans, and most of all there's no stable currency in Zimbabwe, the third country on earth besides Somalia and Iceland, whom switched to the Euro currency in 2008. + 71.102.2.206 (talk) 15:08, 15 April 2009 (UTC)

Not too sure...

Should China not be a lot further up on this?--81.141.113.73 (talk) 09:41, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

Interestingly, China is experiencing the world's biggest economic growth rates about 6% per year in the 2000's and has surpassed Japan as the leading economic country in Asia, but not the eastern hemisphere (still dominated by the European Union bloc). China is still in a developing phase, wealth redistribution wasn't accomplished despite communist economic policies and the slow evolution of China as a capitalist but state-planned and controlled economy explains why the code shows them "yellow". I predict by the year 2023, China may be deep blue ahead of a lighter shade of blue or green of the entire developed world (maybe the USA), after endless arrays of economic recessions over the last quarter or third a century, but the USA will remain well ahead of Russia and Eastern Europe.+71.102.2.206 (talk) 15:05, 15 April 2009 (UTC)