North America Income, Education, Employment: 2006

by Catherine Mulbrandon

in Maps, Other

Screenshot from an interactive mapping tool from OECD Regional Statistics. While you can look at any region I choose North America. The color indicates the GDP per capita: blue is low income while red is high income. The graph on the right is comparing % of population with high school education vs unemployment. (The red circle, indicating very high income, belongs to Washington DC)

{Click on the image to take a closer look}
US Population Ancestry magnifying glass

[tags]United States, OECD, Mexico, Canada[/tags]

Post Revisions:

There are no revisions for this post.

Tagged as: Canada, Choropleth Map, Education, GDP, GDP per Capita, Mexico, North America, OECD, Population, Scatter plot, Unemployment, United States

  • Becca

    I am a little confused about the unemployment vs education graph. Is it saying that the lower the education level, the lower the unemployment? It runs counter to what I have always heard.

  • Mike

    It seems like the data for Mexico isn’t on the same basis as the data for USA. The unemployment rate is shown as very low for Mexico (1-5%). If you run the employment rate figures, they are 56-65% for Mexico. This doesn’t add up.

Previous post:

Next post: