Trends in Global Working Age Populations (1950-2100)

IMF published a rapport 'Africa Rising: Harnessing the Demographic Dividend' which contains a very interesting overview of the working age demographic history from 1950 and forecasts until 2100. Especially note the big rising trend for Africa and the downward trends for the West.

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World Income Growth By Income Distribution (1988-2008)

I found this great graph at the website of the Financial Times. It is from a paper of Branko Milanovic. It shows the real income growth for each percentile of the income distribution, for 1988-2008. As you can expect there is convergence: people with lower incomes saw higher increases in their incomes than people at the end of the distribution. Yet there is an exception, at the total right, the people with the highest incomes also saw high growth. The reason for this is probably that their income consisted for a big part of capital gains, which as Piketty shows tend to grow faster than GDP.

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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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World Economic Heat Map Q1 2014

This chart shows a forecast in the outlook for several developed and developing countries. It shows on the x-axis the current PMI-index, this is the sentiment under purchasing managers at manufacturing companies. Currently Ireland, Czech Republic, United States and the United Kingdom are at very high levels (where higher than 50 means growth). France, Ireland and Spain saw there PMI growth the most in recent months.

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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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Unprecedented Global Housing Boom

The IMF constructed this graph with housing price data from 55 countries. From 2002 and on there was a huge rise in global housing prices. The decline afterwards was also not seen in at least the last 40 years. Lately the housing prices seem to bounce back a bit, but this could be temporary as well since the house prices are still on a very high level.

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World Map Of Euro Crisis Impact

This graph from research by the IMF shows the global impact of a Euro Area Bank Credit Crunch, which would be likely in case of a further deterioration of the Euro Crisis. As you can see, outside the Euro Area, countries in Latin America, Iceland, in the north of Africa and some countries in the Middle East will probably see a lot of negative effects.

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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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Projected Economic Growth in OECD Countries (2012 & 2013)

ABN-AMRO made this graph with its projections for the economic growth of the countries in the world for 2012 and 2013. If a country is to the right of the vertical line it is projected to grow faster than the projected growth of the world GDP, for the horizontal line this is the same for 2013. Countries in the right corner are doing extremely well.

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Development Aid Spending As a Percentage of GDP

In this graph you can see what percentage of GDP the OECD-countries spent on foreign aid in 2011. As you can see only Sweden, Norway, Luxembourg, Denmark and the Netherlands met the target of 0,7% GDP. Greece, Korea, Japan and Italy spent the least as a percentage of GDP.

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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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World Population History

As you can see, population growth rose dramatically after the middle ages. This was achieved by better living standards, including scientific revolutions in lowering the childbirth mortality rate. 

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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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Bailout & Stimulus In The World During The Financial Crisis

This infograph shows the sizes of the bailouts and the stimulus (up until the end of 2009) in the world. The grey circles picture the size of the economy of the country in 2008 in dollars. Inside the circle the red part shows the bailout costs as a percentage of GDP and the blue part shows the stimulus amounts as a percentage of GDP.

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Interest Rates (global), Inflation (global) and Credit Growth (EuroZone)

World short term interest rates have been lowered drastically by the central banks.



This couldn't stop a dramatic fall in global inflation rates in 2008 and 2009. In 2010 and 2011 inflation rates started growing again, until recently.



Euro Zone Credit Growth. With the financial crisis, followed by the economic crisis (recession) and the sovereign debt crisis resulted in an almost stagnant credit growth in the Euro Zone.

Exposure To China

This map shows the countries that are most dependent on the Chinese economy. Especially for Hong Kong and Mongolia is China a very important trade partner. A hard landing in the Chinese economy would have enormous impacts on these countries economies.

On the other hand a positive note for Greece is that it has a low exposure to the Chinese economy. So it won't see many directly negative effects when the Chinese economy slows down. Although it might encounter second hand negative effects when other trading partners which are dependent on China import less in Greece.

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World Population In Graphs

Reuters posted this interesting infographic with several graphs concerning the world population. The United Nations projected that the seventh billion person was born on Monday October the 31st. As you can see population growth as exploded in the 20th century. The speed of the growth seems to decline though with fertility rates declining all over the world.

IMF World Growth Projections (WEO September)

This graph from Reuters shows the latest projections for economic growth in 2011 and 2012 in different continents. Almost all of the projections have been lowered since the forecast of June.

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The World's Biggest Employers

This graph from The Economist shows the biggest employers in the world. Three of the companies are private: Walmart, McDonald's and Taiwan's Hon Hai Precision Industry Company. 

Due to a request by the Economist this graph has been removed. 

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Size Of The Financial Markets

In 2010 world Gross domestic product was 63 trillion dollars. The financial industry is many times bigger than the value of all goods and services produced in the world. Shares and bonds are about the same value of world GDP, but derivatives trading and foreign currency transactions are ten and fifteen times bigger than world gdp.

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