This map ranks all African countries on PPP-adjusted GDP per capita. PPP stands for purchasing power parity and adjusts a country’s GDP by the cost of living. Many consider it the best metric to measure the prosperity of a population.
Unfortunately, the metric doesn’t consider corruption, which is a problem in Africa. For example, in the book Blowout, Rachel Maddow says that Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue (the son of the ruler in Equatorial Guinea) bought a yacht for a price exceeding the country’s education budget.
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Data source: [The World Bank](https://data.worldbank.org/)
Tools used: Python, Matplotlib, Geopandas
This map ranks all African countries on PPP-adjusted GDP per capita. PPP stands for purchasing power parity and adjusts a country’s GDP by the cost of living. Many consider it the best metric to measure the prosperity of a population.
Unfortunately, the metric doesn’t consider corruption, which is a problem in Africa. For example, in the book Blowout, Rachel Maddow says that Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue (the son of the ruler in Equatorial Guinea) bought a yacht for a price exceeding the country’s education budget.
If you want some more information, check out this [article](https://open.substack.com/pub/datawonder/p/here-are-the-richest-and-poorest?r=17ashl&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web) in my free newsletter, [Data Wonder](https://datawonder.substack.com/).
I also made a [tweet](https://twitter.com/oscarl3o/status/1705980809197363398) and would appreciate it if you share and repost my work so I can learn if it’s something that people want! 😀
Thank you.
This is so cool !!
I always just see the Africa GDP maps and there are clear standout countries -this gives a totally diffrent perspective!!
Did you mix up Eswatini and Lesotho? 😀