The world resized by GDP

What this map shows

Each country’s area is proportional to its gross domestic product (GDP): the total value of goods and services it produces in a year, converted to US dollars at market exchange rates.

43%of world GDP comes from the United States (26%) and China (17%)

×18the United Kingdom grows about 18 times its true size

×15Japan grows about 15 times

÷28DR Congo shrinks to about a twenty-eighth

Things to notice

Western Europe and Japan balloon. Germany grows about 16× and Japan about 15×. Small land, large economies.
The United States grows, Brazil and Russia shrink. The US grows about 3.6×; Brazil shrinks about 3× and Russia about 7×.
Compare with the population map. India grows about 7.6× by people but only about 1.4× by GDP. Nigeria grows by people and shrinks by GDP.

A caveat worth teaching

Market exchange rates understate how much money buys in lower-income countries. Measured by purchasing power parity (PPP), countries such as India, Indonesia and Nigeria look considerably larger. Neither measure is “the truth”; they answer different questions.

Data and method

GDP: World Bank, indicator NY.GDP.MKTP.CD, current US dollars, latest available year (mostly 2023), licensed CC BY 4.0. Countries without recent World Bank figures, including Venezuela, Yemen, North Korea and Taiwan, keep their true size and are shown in grey. Method: see How it works.

How to cite

Stretchy Maps (2026). The world, resized by economic output. https://stretchymaps.com/gdp/