Graph of the Day: Global Economic Mass Distribution

Economic mass is concentrated in North America, Western Europe, and Northeast Asia. And only East Asia has significantly increased its share of global GDP in recent decades. This global concentration matters greatly for the development prospects of today’s lagging world regions, and increasing their access to these large world markets must be a priority for global development policy.

World Bank, World Development Report 2009: Reshaping Economic Geography,  Part One: Seeing Development in 3-D, 6 November 2008, Map 3.1, p 97.