[BRIEF NOTE] Language and global economics
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demographer's post, I've come across this interesting graphic showing the extent to which countries dominated by certain languages dominate the gross world product.
I'm surprised to see that the Polish, Turkish, and Dutch languages are associated with as large a share of GWP as they are, at least according to this chart, and that Portuguese. Korean, Arabic and Italian are as unrepresented as they are. Still, it's overall not that surprising--of course English, French, and Spanish are well-represented given their status as global language, likewise German and Japanese with their very large and wealthy domestic economies.
demographer's post, I've come across this interesting graphic showing the extent to which countries dominated by certain languages dominate the gross world product. I'm surprised to see that the Polish, Turkish, and Dutch languages are associated with as large a share of GWP as they are, at least according to this chart, and that Portuguese. Korean, Arabic and Italian are as unrepresented as they are. Still, it's overall not that surprising--of course English, French, and Spanish are well-represented given their status as global language, likewise German and Japanese with their very large and wealthy domestic economies.
