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: 
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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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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.
See also:
Last 2,000 years of growth in world income and population
[tags]GDP, China, India, Japan, Latin America, United States, Western Europe[/tags]
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Visualizing Economics was started in 2006 by Catherine Mulbrandon. Here you will find graphics explaining the US economy.
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