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Government Spending

In: Global Economy Maps Politics

5 Nov 2009

Not a very accurate scale.

3 Responses to Government Spending

wds

November 6th, 2009 at 10:48 am

According to wolfram France has a government expenditure of ~45% GDP. Shouldn’t it be dark green instead of light green?

Birdman

December 4th, 2009 at 7:16 am

Why did they place the labels in such a way that they completely block out some countries. The France label for example sits nicely on top of the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg.

Also they could have included the percentages of the top-20 countries.

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