It's getting better though. This has given us free college tuition, the first state in the US to do that.

What the F is up with France? And UK and Brazil are in lockstep. Interesting.

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There is also a country in tenth place in the 00s that disappears from the graph, I’m guessing South Korea

For someone who is interested in data, you sure are moronic.

South East Asia be like "hold my bee...breath".

It's pretty obvious that it's one of the reasons driving up cost. You can't have the government guaranteeing these loans and it not affect price at all- that's just basic supply and demand.
Also, as a former college administrator you know exactly where that extra tuition money is going, and it's certainly not to the professors. I don't know where you worked, but I've never heard of a professor making multiple hundreds of thousands of dollars off salary alone. Most of the professors with marketable expertise get money from research grants and consulting. Your point about engineering and tech jobs causing salaries to rise is completely untrue, and thats why professors are bailing out at record rates for private industry. Their salaries at university can be in the six figures, but most don't go much above that mark (of course, there are exceptions). Wages actually haven't risen that much for the average professor since the 1980's.
It's the administrators who are making in the mid six to seven figures, and we have more of them per school than ever. But since you're a former administrator, you must be aware of that, no?

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It’s worse for countries that didn’t start the list in 1980 and didn’t make it to 2020, as they have been eradicated from the timeline.

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> Retired Uni administrator

Sounds like most administrators I’ve had to deal with

So I'm aware of the Chick a Fil, homophonbia - religious links

Any other controversial ones there,

From the Wikipedia article, it looks like USSR and Italy.

What's that big dip in Venezuela's output in, 03 or so?

Do you know by chance who the two countries are that disappeared from the chart in 1990?

Yeah, bit confusing

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Because of democrats pushing "guaranteed" government loans for tuition. Colleges exploit, raise tuition, guaranteed loans go out regardless of cost, students bare the brunt of the corruption. Wash. Rinse. Repeat. Democrat students somehow blame Republicans for not voting for "free tuition" LOL!

Ehhh it was named New Mexico when it was literally still part of “old” Mexico (new Spain). It’s not like the American state of New Mexico is older that the country of Mexico. It wasn’t even part of the US yet when it was named.

why is there no legend for countries that didn’t make it to 2020?

A simple line chart to display the top 10 largest economies by average values of GDP. I used Highcharts and data from Wikipedia. More information in this line chart article.

Dot in Norway is Lillyhammer right?

Edit: Saw that it was a movie not tv series. Eddie the Eagle then?

Jealous of those feb 2nd stats lol. I tried the same thing but my love of reading ended up just making me stat up later.

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The more I learn about Nixon and Reagan, the more I hate them