Total Debt (Public and Private) in the United States, Euro Zone, China, Japan and the U.K.

This graph shows the total debt (government, households and firms) for the biggest economies in the world. First, what I think is remarkable is that total debt is for the developing world (except Japan) all around 250 percent of GDP. Second, total debt did not decline since the crisis. In Japan and China (perhaps as expected) it is even rising again.

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2014 World Manufacturing Conditions

Alcoa published this graph picturing estimated yearly growth in demand in several sectors. These sectors are all heavy aluminium users which is the branch Alcoa operates in. As you can see Aerospace and commercial building and construction are expected to see the highest growth. Most growth comes from China, as can be expected. In North America most of the sectors are also expected to increase.

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China Real Estate Prices (2007-2013)

This graph shows the national average of residential real estate prices in China. As you can see prices, corrected for inflation, have increased by 70 percent up until late 2012 and lost some of it's value in the beginning of 2013. This shows that although the Western world encountered a big crisis, Chinese house prices rose substantially.

After all tightening measures house prices were lowered.

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History of Credit Bubbles

This chart shows a historic overview of several financial bubbles. From the Tulip Mania in the 1630's to the Real estate Boom that ended in the late 2000's. This research was provided by Goldman Sachs.

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OECD Yearly 2012 GDP Growth

More and more countries have been reporting their fourth quarter GDP growth for 2012 lately, and hence the yearly 2012 GDP growth rate. For the countries that have reported their figures China had the highest yearly growth rate of 7.8 percent. Indonesia and Norway are following China with 6.2 and 3.0 percent respectively. Yet, most countries had a growth rate of less than 2 percent, with most all European countries on the lower end. Portugal and Italy saw their economy's decline the most, in Portugal even with 3.2 percent.

World 2013 GDP Forecast: Fastest Growers and Contracters

The Economist constructed this overview of those countries in the world that are forecasted to have the highest GDP growth rate as well as those that have the most negative rate. As you can see the developing countries are forecasted to grow the most. From economic theory this can be explained by the fact that these countries still have a lot growth potential, because their economies are still small. Another reason why countries may see high growth is because they are located near China, as China is growing fast the country invests a lot in neighboring countries. Mongolia and Macau (a small country similar to Hong Kong also inside China) are examples. Another reason why a country may grow fast is that it is recovering from a disaster like a natural disaster or a war, of which Libya is an example. 

On the other hand developed countries are growing a lot less and consequently all the forecasted fastest contracting countries are developed countries. Notice that all the fastest contracting countries, besides Syria and Iran, are located in Europe. 

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Changing Top Manufacturing Countries (1980-2010)

The developing countries have made their way more and more in the top 10 of global manufacturing countries. While you might expect China on the first spot, the United States as being the world's biggest economy is still the largest manufacturing producer. Brazil has advanced up to the sixth place. India just entered the top 10 in 2010 and Russia especially made a big jump from place 12 in 2000 to 11 in 2010.

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Will Mexico Overtake China In U.S. Imports?

The Economist constructed this chart with data from the U.S. Department Of Commerce and HSBC. In 1990 China was still a small player in the international trade. Imports from the U.S. out of China were only 3.1 percent of the total U.S. imports. At the time Mexico was twice as big in the percentage of imports from the U.S. The biggest trading partners in terms of exports were Canada and Japan, both with a share of 18 percent. Especially Japan saw its share decline since the continuing crisis the country has been in from 1990. Today the import share that Japan has is lower than Mexico in 1990.

With the high economic growth in Japan before the 90s Japanese wages increased a lot. This gave opportunities to countries like China which at the time had an enormous potential cheap labor force to manufacture goods for exporting to the Western world. With the high economic growth in China wages are rising. Mexico seems the next country to benefit from low wages.

A likely reason why Canada is still a relatively big player is it's favorable location.

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Share of World GDP Per Continent (1990-2010)

In the twenty years before 2010 China gained a lot of GDP. Since its GDP growth was a lot higher than in Europe and the United States it also gained in its share of World GDP. That is China's economy got bigger compared to Europe, United States and Japan. This is shown in the graph.

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Chinese and U.S Stock Markets: Divergence

As you can see setting the stock markets of the U.S. and China in the beginning of 2010 as 100, the Chinese stock market declined to almost 60 and the U.S. stocks soared to almost 130.

Will this trend continue?

China Export Growth Versus Economic Growth

With export growth structurally slowing down in China economic growth is expected the grow less as well. Export growth is now 1 percent, very close to a decline. This has helped bring the economic growth far under the average of 10 percent (since 2000).

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Where are the Top 500 International Companies Located?

The United States is the only country where more than 100 of the top 500 international companies are located. China is a great second, with Japan, Canada and the big three European countries following shortly. From Business Insider: 'Total revenue at the 500 gained 13.2 percent from 2010, to $29.5 trillion, while profits hit $1.6 trillion'.

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Manufacturing Activity Down Around the World

This chart from The Economist compares manufacturing activity around the world for last june compared to the last two years. Most countries saw a shard decline this year, compared to last year, although less in the Emerging Markets.

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Oil Production Versus Consumption

Saudi Arabia produces the most oil in the world, as you can see in this chart from the Financial Times. The United States is the country with the highest consumption in barrels, but also produces quite a lot. Japan sticks out in that it does consumes relatively much, but doesn't produce any oil. For Iraq it is the other way around.

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Global PMI: Euro Zone Down, U.S. Up

The PMI stands for Purchasers Managers Index. The research firm Markit surveys managers of private companies and asks questions about five different topics. These topics are New orders, Output, Employment, Suppliers' delivery times and Stocks of purchases. When the index is at 50 there is no change. Anything below 50 means a decline in activity; similarly above 50 means an increase. This picture shows the data for April 2012. The PMI of the Euro Zone is declining more and more. Especially Greece, Spain and Italy are not doing well. Germany and France have joined them in recent months.

World GDP Density

This graph shows the GDP per capita in the world. Besides Europe, especially notice west and east coasts of the U.S. and the coast of China, the oil states, the Nile, east Australia and Moscow.

Clearly there are a lot of physical determiants of GDP. Cold in the North and warm in the middle, forests. mountains and ofcourse the sea.

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China & India Will Consume 50 percent Of World Economy in 2050

In this great graph you can see the developing of the economy (gross domestic product) of the world throughout history, illustrated by the relative importance of the nine great powers of the world. Up until 1800, more than half of the world economy was dominated by China and India. Since 1800 the western powers more and more took over the world economy from Asia. Especially look at the development of the United States and the United Kingdom. The process turned around from 1980 when China introduced economic reforms. China and India are projected to have around half of world GDP again by 2050.

This can also be seen as the rise and the fall of the 'West'.

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Non-Financial Corporate Debt

You can see in the graph from The Economist (with data from Mckinsey) that Spain, France and the United Kingdom have the highest non-financial corporations debt of the selection countries. Again the emerging countries have the lowest debt. Non-financial corporation debt is a lot higher in Europe than in North America.

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Financial Sector Debt as a Percentage of GDP

You can see in this graph from The Economist (with data from Mckinsey) that the United Kingdom, Japan and France have the highest Financial Debt for the selected countries. As for household debt are the emerging countries the ones with the lowest financial debt. Also for financial debt the United Kingdom is the country with the highest amount, as is the case with the total debt (which you were able to see in this post.

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Household Debt as a Percentage of GDP (Developed and Emerging Countries)

You can see in the graph from The Economist (with data from Mckinsey) that the Anglo-Saxon countries have the highest household debt of selected countries. The emerging countries have the lowest household debt. As you were able to see in this post with total debt (government, household, financial and non-financial) Britain was also the country with the highest total debt.

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