City Economic Info

[andymac]

I am trying to work out the world setup for my fictional league but would like to base it on the real economics of the cities around the world. Does anyone know where I can get this type of info?

[Ktulu]

There is a DB of the top 100 populated cities based on US census data from 1900-2000. Can't remember who made it but it's around somewhere...

For individual cities wikipedia is a good resource.

For international cities check out http://demographia.com/ and http://www.citypopulation.de

[Curtis]

If you look up individual cities and countries in the Wikipedia, and you're willing to spend some hours following links to off-wiki sites, you can find GDP information for major cities. Since most teams draw from their surrounding area as well, you can (sometimes) get greater metropolitan area GDPs and/or state/prefecture GDPs to use instead.

That's what I did to set the market size for the teams in my Oriental Universe. The leagues are in Taiwan, South Korea, Japan and China. I went nation by nation and found the GDPs for the cities with teams in real life, except for China. There I found the six cities with the top GDPs and assigned teams to them (so Hong Kong, which doesn't have one in real life, does in my China League).

I listed all the cities from highest GDP to lowest for the entire universe. Cities with multiple teams (like Tokyo, which has five) had theirs divided by the number of teams. Any teams in cities with more than 90% of the highest modified GDP got '10' markets/80.1-90% got '9' markets/70.1-80% got '8' markets, and so on. The Shikoku Island League teams all became '1', as did the Big 6 University League (which I had to generate special financials for, it being a nonprofessional league). Other places also got special treatment, such as Taiwan which is so small that any road game is an easy drive away, so I just took the national GDP and divided by the number of teams. This gives me a uniform set of market numbers across the universe. A '6' in Korea is the same as a '6' in Japan or China.

[enuttage]

I've got a whole setup for comparative monetary values set up in '06 at the country level, but not the city level. If it helps, I can send you what I've got...if I can recover my hard drive later this week.

[The Wolf]

Originally Posted by enuttage

if I can recover my hard drive later this week.

Ouch, sorry.

[Dagrims]

Originally Posted by andymac

I am trying to work out the world setup for my fictional league but would like to base it on the real economics of the cities around the world. Does anyone know where I can get this type of info?

From 2006 UBS report

Rank
	
Cities
	
Wage index
1
	Zurich 	124.2
2
	Geneva 	115.4
3
	Oslo 	110.8
4
	Dublin 	104.6
5
	New York 	100.0
6
	Luxembourg 	98.1
7
	Los Angeles 	97.0
8
	London 	96.0
9
	Copenhagen 	95.7
10
	Chicago 	94.7
11
	Helsinki 	89.1
12
	Tokyo 	87.4
13
	Frankfurt 	85.5
14
	Munich 	84.5
15
	Berlin 	82.1
16
	Vienna 	81.2
17
	Toronto 	80.4
18
	Sydney 	79.6
19
	Brussels 	78.2
20
	Montreal 	77.3
21
	Stockholm 	77.0
22
	Miami 	74.0
23
	Auckland 	73.4
24
	Amsterdam 	72.7
25
	Lyon 	70.5
26
	Nicosia 	69.5
27
	Paris 	68.8
28
	Barcelona 	66.6
29
	Madrid 	64.3
30
	Milan 	59.9
31
	Dubai 	57.8
32
	Rome 	49.7
33
	Athens 	48.6
34
	Seoul 	48.2
35
	Taipei 	43.3
36
	Singapore 	38.9
37
	Lisbon 	38.6
38
	Johannesburg 	37.3
39
	Manama 	36.6
40
	Hong Kong 	34.9
41
	Sao Paulo 	29.0
42
	Ljubljana 	28.3
43
	Istanbul 	25.9
44
	Prague 	25.8
45
	Moscow 	25.4
46
	Santiago de Chile 	24.3
47
	Tallinn 	22.1
48
	Rio de Janeiro 	21.2
49
	Budapest 	20.0
50
	Bratislava 	18.7
51
	Caracas 	18.7
52
	Warsaw 	18.4
53
	Buenos Aires 	18.0
54
	Lima 	15.8
55
	Kuala 	15.7
56
	Vilnius 	15.4
57
	Riga 	15.3
58
	Bucharest 	13.2
59
	Shanghai 	13.1
60
	Bogotá 	13.0
61
	Kiev 	11.6
62
	Nairobi 	11.1
63
	Mexico 	10.9
64
	Beijing 	10.9
65
	Bangkok 	10.9
66
	Sofia 	10.2
67
	Mumbai 	8.7
68
	Jakarta 	8.2
69
	Manila 	7.8
70
	Delhi 	7.8

Methodology: Effective hourly wages for 14 professions, weighted according to distributions. Net after deduction of taxes and social security constributions.

From June 2006 UBS Survey

Rank
	
Cities
	
Index
(incl rents)
1
	London 	105.5
2
	New York 	100.0
3
	Oslo 	94.6
4
	Tokyo 	93.4
5
	Zurich 	87.3
6
	Copenhagen 	86.3
7
	Geneva 	85.8
8
	Dublin 	84.3
9
	Chicago 	82.2
10
	Los Angeles 	80.6
11
	Paris 	78.1
12
	Helsinki 	77.3
13
	Luxembourg 	76.6
14
	Stockholm 	75.8
15
	Vienna 	74.0
16
	Seoul 	73.9
17
	Amsterdam 	73.0
18
	Hong Kong 	73.0
19
	Toronto 	71.4
20
	Munich 	71.2
21
	Montreal 	71.2
22
	Miami 	70.5
23
	Frankfurt 	69.3
24
	Sydney 	69.0
25
	Brussels 	68.5
26
	Milan 	68.5
27
	Rome 	67.6
28
	Madrid 	66.2
29
	Nicosia 	66.2
30
	Dubai 	66.1
31
	Lyon 	66.0
32
	Barcelona 	65.6
33
	Berlin 	64.4
34
	Singapore 	62.9
35
	Lisbon 	62.1
36
	Istanbul 	61.6
37
	Mexico 	60.7
38
	Auckland 	60.6
39
	Athens 	57.4
40
	Taipei 	57.2
41
	Moscow 	56.8
42
	Tel Aviv 	55.2
43
	Rio de Janeiro 	55.1
44
	Manama 	54.8
45
	Santiago de Chile 	54.3
46
	Sao Paulo 	53.6
47
	Caracas 	52.8
48
	Warsaw 	49.5
49
	Ljubljana 	48.7
50
	Tallinn 	48.6
51
	Johannesburg 	47.2
52
	Budapest 	46.7
53
	Jakarta 	44.4
54
	Bucharest 	43.3
55
	Prague 	42.6
56
	Bogotá 	42.3
57
	Buenos 	41.9
58
	Mumbai 	41.5
59
	Bangkok 	41.0
60
	Kiev 	40.6
61
	Riga 	40.2
62
	Sofia 	40.0
63
	Nairobi 	39.7
64
	Bratislava 	39.6
65
	Beijing 	39.6
66
	Shanghai 	39.3
67
	Vilnius 	37.7
68
	Lima 	35.9
69
	Manila 	35.2
70
	Delhi 	34.6
71
	Kuala Lumpur 	28.2

Another list:

World's most and least expensive cities
Source: Mercer Human Resource Consulting, 2005 Cost-of-Living Survey
2005
Rank 	City
1 	Tokyo, Japan
2 	Osaka, Japan
3 	London, United Kingdom
4 	Moscow, Russia
5 	Seoul, South Korea
6 	Geneva, Switzerland
7 	Zurich, Switzerland
8 	Copenhagen, Denmark
9 	Hong Kong, Hong Kong
10 	Oslo, Norway
11 	Milan, Italy
12 	Paris, France
13 	New York City, United States
13 	Dublin, Ireland
15 	St. Petersburg, Russia
16 	Vienna, Austria
17 	Rome, Italy
18 	Stockholm, Sweden
19 	Beijing, China
20 	Sydney, Australia
20 	Helsinki, Finland
22 	Douala, Cameroon
22 	Istanbul, Turkey
24 	Amsterdam, Netherlands
24 	Budapest, Hungary
26 	Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire
27 	Warsaw, Poland
28 	Prague, Czech Republic
29 	Taipei, Taiwan
30 	Shanghai, China
31 	Bratislava, Slovak Republic
32 	Düsseldorf, Germany
33 	Luxembourg, Luxembourg
34 	Singapore, Singapore
34 	Frankfurt, Germany
36 	Dakar, Senegal
37 	Munich, Germany
38 	Berlin, Germany
39 	Tel Aviv, Israel
40 	Glasgow, United Kingdom
41 	Athens, Greece
41 	Brussels, Belgium
43 	Barcelona, Spain
44 	Los Angeles, United States
45 	White Plains, United States
46 	Madrid, Spain
47 	Birmingham, United Kingdom
48 	Zagreb, Croatia
49 	Hamburg, Germany
50 	Hanoi, Vietnam
50 	San Francisco, United States
52 	Chicago, United States
52 	Beirut, Lebanon
54 	Riga, Latvia
54 	Kiev, Ukraine
56 	Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam
57 	Miami, United States
58 	Algiers, Algeria
59 	Casablanca, Morocco
60 	Tallin, Estonia
61 	Lyon, France
61 	Honolulu, United States
63 	Shenzhen, China
64 	Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
65 	Guangzhou, China
66 	Lisbon, Portugal
67 	Amman, Jordan
68 	Melbourne, Australia
69 	Auckland, New Zealand
70 	Houston, United States
71 	Jakarta, Indonesia
72 	Kuwait City, Kuwait
73 	Dubai, United Arab Emirates
74 	San Juan, Puerto Rico
75 	Almaty, Kazakhstan
76 	Wellington, New Zealand
76 	Ljubljana, Slovenia
78 	Washington, D.C., United States
79 	Boston, United States
80 	Morristown, United States
81 	Sofia, Bulgaria
82 	Toronto, Canada
83 	Atlanta, United States
84 	Brisbane, Australia
85 	Leipzig, Germany
86 	Manama, Bahrain
87 	Vancouver, Canada
88 	Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
89 	Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
89 	Adelaide, Australia
91 	Vilnius, Lithuania
91 	Accra, Ghana
93 	Perth, Australia
94 	Denver, United States
95 	Mexico City, Mexico
96 	Lagos, Nigeria
97 	Cairo, Egypt
98 	Calgary, Canada
99 	Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
100 	Limassol, Cyprus
101 	Detroit, United States
102 	St. Louis, United States
103 	Seattle, United States
103 	Bucharest, Romania
105 	Kingston, Jamaica
105 	Mumbai, India
107 	Montreal, Canada
108 	Guatemala City, Guatemala
109 	Cleveland, United States
110 	New Delhi, India
111 	Pittsburgh, United States
112 	Portland (Ore.), United States
113 	Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei
114 	Panama City, Panama
115 	Monterrey, Mexico
116 	Johannesburg, South Africa
117 	Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
118 	Lima, Peru
119 	Nairobi, Kenya
119 	Winston-Salem, United States
119 	São Paulo, Brazil
122 	Ottawa, Canada
123 	Lusaka, Zambia
124 	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
125 	Bangkok, Thailand
126 	Tunis, Tunisia
127 	Dacca (Dhaka), Bangladesh
128 	Santiago, Chile
129 	Tehran, Iran
130 	Blantyre, Malawi
131 	Tianjin, China
132 	Colombo, Sri Lanka
133 	Bogotá, Colombia
134 	Harare, Zimbabwe
135 	San José, Costa Rica
136 	Karachi, Pakistan
137 	Quito, Ecuador
138 	Chennai (Madras), India
138 	Caracas, Venezuela
140 	Montevideo, Uruguay
141 	Bangalore, India
142 	Buenos Aires, Argentina
143 	Manila, Philippines
144 	Asunción, Paraguay

Also check out this 2006 Economist Intelligence Unit survey
There's a lot of good information at City Mayors

[andymac]

Cool, some very good info here. Thanks!

[bleachercreature]

http://www.usmayors.org/70thAnnualMe...p100Metros.pdf

This is a list of the top 100 US metro economies