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U.S. Unemployment verses Europe: March 2009

by Catherine Mulbrandon

From CEPR, for the first time (since 1993) the U.S. unemployment equals the total unemployment of the first 15 countries in the European Union:

U.S. unemployment rate ranks 4th to last among the major OECD countries:

Found via ChartPorn

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Comparing share of wealth by region/countries

by Catherine Mulbrandon

in Other

Instead of income this graph focuses on personal net worth. I found the pie chart at Metrics 2.0, depicting the share of personal wealth by region in 2000.

Average wealth amounted to $144,000 per person in the USA in year 2000, and $181,000 in Japan. Lower down among countries with wealth data are India, with per capita assets of $1,100, and Indonesia with $1,400 per capita.

[tags]wealth, net worth[/tags]

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Share of GDP: China, India, Japan, Latin America, Western Europe, United States

by Catherine Mulbrandon

in Country Growth last 2000 years, VE Infographics

After coming across this graph about the share of world GDP (China, India, and US), I started to wonder what was the percentage back to 1500? The graph below shows the share of GDP over the last 500 years for China, India, Japan, Latin America, Western Europe, and United States. (Keep in mind that the change in population size will effect the size of the GDP)

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Data estimates for GDP from Angus Maddison Emeritus Professor, Faculty of Economics, University of Groningen.

[tags]GDP, China, India, Japan, Latin America, United States, Western Europe[/tags]

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Share of Population Growth: China, India, Africa, Latin America, Western Europe, United States

by Catherine Mulbrandon

in Country Growth last 2000 years, VE Infographics

Here, I have graphed the percent of world population over the last 500 years for China, India, Africa, Latin America, Western Europe, and United States. This is a companion graph to Comparing Population Growth: China, India, Africa, Latin America, Western Europe, United States

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