Fig. 1.
Quantifying countries' economic complexity. (A) A country will be able to produce a product if it has all of the available capabilities, hence the bipartite network connecting countries to products is a result of the tripartite network connecting countries to their available capabilities and products to the capabilities they require. (B) Network visualization of a subset of Mcp in which we show Malaysia (MYS), Pakistan (PAK), Philippines (PHL), Japan (JPN), and all of the products exported by them in the year 2000 (colored circles), illustrating how countries and products are connected in Mcp. (C) kc,0–kc,1 diagram divided into 4 quadrants defined by the empirically observed averages 〈kc,0〉 and 〈kc,1〉.