An Illuminated Country- Is it more developed?

There was a recent research done on determining the economy of a country by the extent of its illumination, which created doubts.

I read this news in a recent newspaper which interested me as to how can the lights present in a country be related to its GDP growth rate. If this would have been the case, then Pakistan’s economy would be zero up till now.



The basic idea behind the number of lights and GDP was the underlying fact, that more a country is developed; it would have more roads and obviously more light at night. Hence this gives a hint about its development. Then what about countries who are famous for the electricity load shedding?

However, the data collected on this idea by the World Bank, did not yield accurate information.