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What GDP per capita leaves out

current US$ · 2025 · Fixed class edges, so years can be compared directly.

The 16-country mean is not population-weighted.

What does this comparison leave out?

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GDP per capita

current US$ · 2025 · Fixed class edges, so years can be compared directly.

Cabo Verde leads at $5,796; Niger is lowest at $775 — a 7.5× gap.

Which contrast on the map deserves an explanation?

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Reading the GDP per capita map

A national average cannot show income distribution within a country.

Values are current US dollars per person for 2025. Fixed class edges support comparison across years; they do not measure household income or purchasing power.

Which country would you examine first?

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How countries compare with the regional mean

current US$ · 2025 · Fixed class edges, so years can be compared directly.

The median and mean answer different questions.

Why do the mean and median differ here?

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Unemployment by country · 2025

Equal-count classes make relative positions easier to compare.

National estimate; not a measure of job quality or informal employment.

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Unemployment across West Africa

A regional map sample · 2025

This is a cartographic sample, not a full analytical edition.

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A national rate is not a local map.

This figure describes the share of people with electricity access nationally. It cannot show which neighborhood or household is left out.

Color encodes access rate, not policy success or cause.

What local evidence would test this national pattern?

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Electricity access: two extremes.

Niger 21.3% · Cabo Verde 98.4%

77.1 percentage-point range · 2024

What might explain the range without assuming a cause?

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Electricity access varies.

16 / 16 countries · 2024

Color encodes access rate, not policy success or cause.

Which countries share an access band?

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Where electricity reaches

A geographic reading of access across West Africa

16 / 16 countries · 2024

What difference does the map reveal?

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