World Countries Populations and Economies

Based on current economic weight and future demographic expansion, from an economic and demographic standpoint, the countries to watch out for are:

For their economic growth:

• US
• China

For their economic development and future population growth:

• India
• Indonesia

For their demographic growth only:

• Nigeria
• Pakistan

Relative Economic Weights of Countries

This visualisation from howmuch.net enables us to view the current size of the different countries GDP:

World GDP

This is a Purchase Parity GDP (PPP) from Worldmapper.org, so China appears bigger than the US. The underrepresentation of Africa and the Indian subcontinent is impressive.

World Population

Reference Projection Map

Unfortunately, Worldmapper uses a equirectangular projection which distorts areas, making Russia and Canada appear too big and equatorial countries smallest.

The Galls-Peters projection would have the advantage of showing comparable land areas (but both E-W and N-S distances get distorted as you move towards the poles):

image credit: sacred margins