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Table 7.1
The world's largest cities in 1925
1925
City
population
000s
(% change
1900-1925)
Country
population
000s
(% change
1900-1925)
GDP $000s
(% change
1900-1925)
GDP per
capita $
(% change
1900-1925)
New York
7774 (83.2)
116,284 (52.2)
730,545 (233)
6282 (53.5)
London
7742 (19.5)
45,059 (9.48)
231,806 (25.4)
5144 (14.5)
Tokyo
5300 (354)
59,522 (86.0)
112,209 (216)
1885 (59.7)
Paris
4800 (44.1)
40,610 (11.7)
169,197 (44.9)
4166 (44.8)
Berlin
4013 (48.2)
63,166 (87.2)
223,082 (37.4)
3532 (18.3)
Chicago
3564 (208)
116,284 (52.2)
730,545 (233)
6282 (53.5)
Ruhr
3400 (443)
63,166 (87.2)
223,082 (37.4)
3532 (18.3)
Buenos Aires
2410 (299)
10,358 (221)
40,597 (233)
3919 (53.5)
Osaka
2219 (228)
59,522 (86.0)
112,209 (314)
1885 (18.3)
Philadelphia
2085 (47)
116,284 (52.2)
730,545 (216)
6282 (53.5)
Vienna
1865 (9.8)
6582 (10.2)
22,161 (233)
3367 (204)
Boston
1764 (64.1)
116,284 (52.2)
730,545 (28.7)
6282 (53.5)
Moscow
1764 (57.5)
158,983 (27.2)
(USSR)
231,886 [1928]
(50.5)
1370 [1928]
(10.0)
Manchester
1725 (20.2)
45,05 (9.48)
231,806 (25.4)
5144 (14.5)
Birmingham
1700 (36.2)
45,059 (9.48)
231,806 (25.4)
5144 (14.5)
Sources: City Population Data (Chandler 1987); Country Population, GDP and GDP per
Capita Data (Maddison 2006); McCann and Acs (2011).
cities are not what the OECD (2006) classifies as 'mega-cities' of over 7
million inhabitants. In fact, of the world's 75 highest productivity cities,
29 are what the OECD (2006) classifies as 'small metro areas' of less than
3 million inhabitants; 32 are classified as 'medium to large metro areas' of
between 3 and 6.99 million inhabitants; and only 14 are 'mega-cities' of at
least 7 million inhabitants. Excluding the US, and therefore focusing just
on the rest of the world, of the world's most productive 52 non-US cities,
21 are 'small metro areas'; 20 are 'medium to large metro areas'; and only
11 are 'mega-cities' of at least 7 million inhabitants. For OECD cities of
over 1.25 million inhabitants, there is only a very weak cross-sectional link
between city per capita productivity and population, which if anything, is
slightly negative (OECD 2007).
Table 7.4 lists the top 15 per capita productivity US cities and also the
top 15 non-US OECD cities, and indicates the city per capita productiv-
ity relative to its respective national average. Obviously the US rankings
remain unchanged, but the non-US rankings differ significantly when
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