GDP by language

[Patrick Andries]

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BTW, some time ago I had generated a pie chart of world GDP divided up by
language.

Is this in purchasing power parity or currency parity ?

Someone on this list asked for a copy, so I posted it here in case others

might

http://www.macchiato.com/economy/GDP_PPP_by_language.pdf
Mark
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[Mark Davis]

BTW, some time ago I had generated a pie chart of world GDP divided up by
language.

Someone on this list asked for a copy, so I posted it here in case others might
find it interesting:

http://www.macchiato.com/economy/GDP_PPP_by_language.pdf

Mark
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[John Cowan]

BTW, some time ago I had generated a pie chart of world GDP divided up by
language.
Someone on this list asked for a copy, so I posted it here in case others might

Cool! How do you account for officially bilingual/multilingual countries?
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[Mark Davis]

I found it very interesting too.

For countries with multiple languages it is only approximate, since there is
little data available. What I had done was to take figures from the World
Factbook as to the percentage of the population speaking a given language, and
then parcel up the GDP (from the World Bank) according to those figures. For
some cases I had to go to other sources, e.g. for India I used
http://www.censusindia.net/cendat/datatable25.html.

Thus they are rough figures, since different language groups will have unequal
distributions of GDP; and there may be significant multilingual populations.
Still, I think it is close enough to get an useful overall picture.

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Sent: Tue, 2003 Oct 21 10:20
Subject: Re: GDP by language

Post by John Cowan

BTW, some time ago I had generated a pie chart of world GDP divided up by
language.
Someone on this list asked for a copy, so I posted it here in case others might

Cool! How do you account for officially bilingual/multilingual countries?
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Do what you will, John Cowan
And is made up of http://www.reutershealth.com
Contradiction. --William Blake http://www.ccil.org/~cowan

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[John Cowan]

Post by Mark Davis
Thus they are rough figures, since different language groups will have unequal
distributions of GDP; and there may be significant multilingual populations.

In fact, officially multilingual countries are less likely to have polyglot
citizens than officially monolingual ones. The whole point of being officially
multilingual, after all, is to allow multiple groups of monoglots to get
equal access to government services. If most of your citizens are polyglots,
you may as well choose the language that most of them can speak, even as L2 or L3,
as the official language.
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no words left to express his staggerment, since Men changed the language that
they learned of elves in the days when all the world was wonderful. --The Hobbit


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[Mark Davis]

I don't think it is quite that simple. Look at India, for example.

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Sent: Tue, 2003 Oct 21 12:36
Subject: Re: GDP by language

Post by John Cowan

Post by Mark Davis
Thus they are rough figures, since different language groups will have unequal
distributions of GDP; and there may be significant multilingual populations.

In fact, officially multilingual countries are less likely to have polyglot
citizens than officially monolingual ones. The whole point of being officially
multilingual, after all, is to allow multiple groups of monoglots to get
equal access to government services. If most of your citizens are polyglots,
you may as well choose the language that most of them can speak, even as L2 or L3,
as the official language.
--
To say that Bilbo's breath was taken away is no description at all. There are
no words left to express his staggerment, since Men changed the language that
they learned of elves in the days when all the world was wonderful. --The Hobbit

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[Mark Davis]

It is PPP. (You get a very different pie chart with other measures of GDP, of
course).

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Subject: Re: GDP by language

Post by Patrick Andries
----- Original Message -----

BTW, some time ago I had generated a pie chart of world GDP divided up by
language.

Is this in purchasing power parity or currency parity ?

Someone on this list asked for a copy, so I posted it here in case others

might

http://www.macchiato.com/economy/GDP_PPP_by_language.pdf
Mark
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P. A.

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