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. Mark __________________________________ http://www.macchiato.com ► शिष्यादिच्छेत्पराजयम् ◄ ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Cowan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Mark Davis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tue, 2003 Oct 21 10:20 Subject: Re: GDP by language > Mark Davis scripsit: > > > 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: > > Cool! How do you account for officially bilingual/multilingual countries? > > -- > Do what you will, John Cowan > this Life's a Fiction [EMAIL PROTECTED] > And is made up of http://www.reutershealth.com > Contradiction. --William Blake http://www.ccil.org/~cowan >
