No, that would only happen in a brutal totalitarian dictatorship.

In Russia, they fall out of 5th story windows.

• dividends are paid out of net profits, so that doesn't change the $11 billion figure

• $30+ million salary for someone running a machine that makes $11 Billion in a bad year.....as a shareholder, would you vote for that?

This is basically the same joke that my father learned as a boy in Amsterdam a century ago!

In the old version, it's a monkey with a peach who tries out the size of the pit before putting back into the peach and eating it.

Literally?

The World Bank International Comparison Program: PPP Calculation and Estimation

1. Comparing living standards across countries is interesting.

2. Comparing the size of different countries ' economies is also interesting.

The graph is trying to do (2). It is not trying to do (1).

Murdered by words.....

>If you than use this measurement and divide GDP equal over the population....

Yes .... but that's not what they are doing in this graph. They are comparing GDP, not GDP per capita

>I dont know enough to compare individual countries

....but isn't that what the graphic is all about?

So you're making the argument that an unequal income distribution distorts this international comparison?

And you object to how this boosts Russia's ranking?

Just wondering what you think this effect would have on the ranking of other big economies....(e.g. China, India, USA)?

Um.....no.

• that's not why Purchasing Power Parity exchange rates are used for international comparisons. Instead it tries to adjust for the fact that most spending is on "non-traded" goods and services.

• it sounds like you're thinking of GDP per capita. Here "average" GDP seems to take a moving average to get nice smooth lines.

Are you sure they're using PPP?

I didn't see that info and was wondering....

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Subject: Poop data

Is it just me, or are these sorts of data sets the opposite of beautiful?

(And while we're on the subject, shouldn't it be "dataarebeautiful"?)

When is an American searching all over for a bathroom not an American?

When he's a Roman.

Of course, if he's desperate to find one, he might also be Russian.