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There’s more to life than GDP

Nations can be ranked in many different ways — see how the G20 can change
  
  

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Well noted: $1 dollar bills Photograph: Piet Mall/Getty

Money may not buy you happiness, but it can increase your ranking in the world economic league tables. Writing in the Guardian, Aditya Chakrabortty points out that:


For all its prominence, GDP is only one yardstick of economic performance and it is no guide to social progress. It simply indicates the market value of all goods and services produced in an economy. It takes no account of how income is shared out, or of how it is generated. Few would celebrate a boom in costly divorce cases – but it would be great for GDP.

Well, the attached data shows you how to measure the wellbeing of a country in some interesting other ways too, for each G20 nation.

DATA: Different ways of ranking countries
GRAPHIC: how we visualised this

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