I wonder how much of this can be attributed to freedom of movement within the EU: if you took out European union countries, which are both typically richer and have freedom of movement, would you still see the same trends?
I'm not sure I'd agree with this line fit. The interpretation is that there is a log relationship between the two measures, when in fact there's really just two groups and some outliers. One group are all the countries with <~$15k GDP per capita, these having no real consistency in the number of countries allowed with a visa. The other group are those that permit essentially 180+ countries with visa and they have widely varying GDP/person but all above $10k. This appears more binomial in nature, not linear. Countries either have wide visa freedom or not and the overwhelming majority of those without visa freedom are poor.
![image showing Passport Power: How The Wealth of Your Country Determines Your Travel Freedom [OC]](38d916e0-ad55-5a23-b8bb-c21eeb125e9d.jpg)
prettyfly4aporkpie on November 28th, 2019 at 12:42 UTC »
I wonder how much of this can be attributed to freedom of movement within the EU: if you took out European union countries, which are both typically richer and have freedom of movement, would you still see the same trends?
Voggix on November 28th, 2019 at 13:08 UTC »
I'm not sure I'd agree with this line fit. The interpretation is that there is a log relationship between the two measures, when in fact there's really just two groups and some outliers. One group are all the countries with <~$15k GDP per capita, these having no real consistency in the number of countries allowed with a visa. The other group are those that permit essentially 180+ countries with visa and they have widely varying GDP/person but all above $10k. This appears more binomial in nature, not linear. Countries either have wide visa freedom or not and the overwhelming majority of those without visa freedom are poor.
FiliKlepto on November 28th, 2019 at 13:19 UTC »
For reasons that others have already outlined, I’m not sure that there is a relationship in the way your line has been drawn.
Also, where is Japan? (Top country with visa free access iirc)