Mapped: How Europe’s wealth has shifted since 1900

Mapped: How Europe’s wealth has shifted since 1900

Prosperity is not a given, and neither is poverty. As these maps show, rich regions can lose their wealth, and poor places can turn affluent. While they don’t explain the ebbs and flows of fortune, these maps do provide a fascinating, granular view of where those fortunes rose and fell in Europe, in just over a century. Both maps show regional GDPs relative to the European average. The one on the left shows the situation in 1900, and the one on …