Non-European Country with Most Similar GDP Per Capita to Each European Country (IMF, 2024) [OC]

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  2. This is ugly as all hell. Simple gradient scale with some key comparison points would serve much better. Also using 3 shades of orange really isn’t useful as was confused on Russia et al at first.

  3. This is quite possibly the worst way of representing this data, unless you happen to know the relative GPDs per capita of a bunch of Gulf states and Middle-Eastern countries.

    And just on the most basic level, WTF is ~~Bulgaria~~, Romania, one of the poorer ex-communist countries, coded in the same color(ish) as Germany and Sweden? (My bad on confusing Bulgaria and Romania, but either way, neither place ought to be the same shade as Germany, Austria and Sweden, if color is meant to convey any sort of info.)

    On top of that, PPP data would be far more meaningful, countries like Portugal are not really in a class of their own, the higher-functioning Eastern European countries are easily keeping up in terms of quality of life.

  4. Slovenia is matched with Japan while it’s bracketed by Brunei and Taiwan in your source?

  6. Not to pile on, but this is not a great viz.

    Ideally, you’d want to actually *show* the information you want to convey.
    You could color countries with the corresponding flag maybe? Or just label them with the name of the country, the gdp/person, the similar country, and the similar GDP/person of the similar non-EU country.

    Or… Just make a global map of GDP per capita and highlight the similarities you want to make note of.

  7. Estonia is a surprise. Is this because Japan’s yen is so weak right now?

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