Now I took a transparency, rescaled it, blew it up, overlaid it with thousands...

Source: Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia, staff calculations involving rescaling and estimation, based on national and international sources.

k Data are not directly comparable with earlier series because constant price GDP has been rescaled to year 2000 international (purchasing power parity) dollars.

Note: The regional aggregates are computed by summing over all countries the constant prices series rescaled to the price level of the common base year 2000 and converted into dollars using the GDP purchasing power parity of the year 2000.

If we go into the centre here and rescale it, we actually see that there are fainter stars towards the centre of our field of view and these stars are extremely important.