I made a tile-based visualization comparing GDP in the year 2000 vs year 2025 for Top 60 countries.
How to read it
- X-axis = population (one tile is 5 Million people)
- Y-axis = GDP per capita (one tile is 1000$ per capita)
- So the area ≈ total GDP:
- Image 1: area ≈ nominal GDP (population × nominal GDP per capita)
- Image 2: area ≈ PPP GDP (population × PPP GDP per capita)
Colors
- Dark tiles = the 2000 baseline area
- Light tiles = the additional area by 2025
- If population or GDP per capita decreased, the “missing” part is shown as medium gray (no tiles)
Why this view?
It makes it visually obvious how a country’s total GDP changed over the last 25 years:
more people (growth to the right), higher output per person (growth upward), or both.
You can also directly compare the 2000 baseline blocks (dark) across countries and see the absolute growth (light).
This is just a different way to visualize familiar data — but it makes the drivers of growth easy to spot.
by ollowain86