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November 2010

Half the world’s population lives in 6 countries

by Catherine Mulbrandon on November 11, 2010

in Fun Facts!, VE Infographics

A new series looking at Fun Facts! about US and World economies. I am starting with something simple: In 2009, 50% of the world’s 6.8 billion people lived in just 6 countries: China, India, United States, Indonesia, Brazil and Pakistan.

If you want to look up the population for the rest for the world try the World Bank’s data tool.

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Log scale version of yesterday’s Real Growth of US GDP graph. If you look at the Long-term Stock Growth graph, the slope of the trendline looks similar to the US GDP trendline. However, when you calculate their annualized growth rate from 1871-2009 you get:

Annualized Real Stocks Price Growth    1.95%
Annualized Real GDP Growth                  3.47%

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This time I am plotting United States GDP as a comparison to my first graph US Stock Market Growth since 1871 in this series. You will notice that the 2009 US GDP dropped to 2005-2006 levels as a result of the recent financial crises.

Log scale version coming tomorrow.

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