Updated by Matthew Yglesias on August 21, 2015, 12:00 p.m. ET @mattyglesiasmatt@vox.com
Here's a very cool data visualization from HowMuch.net that took me a minute to figure out because it's a little bit unorthodox.
The way it works is that it visualizes the entire world's economic output as a circle.
That circle is then subdivided into a bunch of blobs representing the economy of each major country.
And then each country-blob is sliced into three chunks — one for manufacturing, one for services, and one for agriculture.
Check it out:
You can see some cool things here.
For example, compare the US and China. Our economy is much larger than theirs, but our industrial sectors are comparable in size, and China's agriculture sector looks to be a little bit larger. Services are what drive the entire gap.
The UK and France have similarly sized overall economies, but agriculture is a much bigger slice of the French pie.
For all that Russia gets played up as some kind of global mena…
Here's a very cool data visualization from HowMuch.net that took me a minute to figure out because it's a little bit unorthodox.
The way it works is that it visualizes the entire world's economic output as a circle.
That circle is then subdivided into a bunch of blobs representing the economy of each major country.
And then each country-blob is sliced into three chunks — one for manufacturing, one for services, and one for agriculture.
Check it out:
You can see some cool things here.
For example, compare the US and China. Our economy is much larger than theirs, but our industrial sectors are comparable in size, and China's agriculture sector looks to be a little bit larger. Services are what drive the entire gap.
The UK and France have similarly sized overall economies, but agriculture is a much bigger slice of the French pie.
For all that Russia gets played up as some kind of global mena…