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Awesome graphic: Earth's center of economic gravity returning to location of 1 AD

June 30, 2012   /   by Guest User

One major caveat: the projection from 2010 to 2025 is not to be trusted, based on the dubious assumption that China's rapid growth will continue (that one will require a whole future post).

Sources: this version of this widely circulated graphic is taken from WSJ. Personal HT to Chris Blattman, where I first saw it.

  1 AD economic center of gravity map
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