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Worlds Largest Stock Exchanges
Of the approximately 100 major exchanges located throughout the world, 16 of the world’s largest stock exchanges are depicted on the above image. The map also shows the market value and share turnover of each exchange. Share turnover is defined as a measure of stock liquidity. The market value is represented by buildings, with each large building equivalent to approximately $2 trillion.
As the picture shows, the United States has two of the top three exchanges based on market value. The New York Stock Exchange is the largest exchange by far with a market value of $9.57 trillion and share turnover of $7.99 trillion. The NYSE combined with the NASDAQ exchange, which has a market value of $2.77 trillion and a chart topping share turnover of $12.26 trillion, enables the U.S. to account for 38% of the total market value of the exchanges represented on this graphic.
50 Wealthiest People in The World
The net worth of the richest people in the world is the worth of the total assets that each person owns. The net worth includes the assets minus the liabilities. In general, it is the worth of all the persons assets, whether or not they are liquid. The 50 richest people in the world are:
- William Gates III (Bill Gates), United States, net worth $40 billion from software. One of the founders of Microsoft, Bill Gates has been the richest person in the world for most of the years from 1995 to 2009.
- Warren Buffett, United States, net worth $37 billion from investments. Investor and Berkshire Hathaway CEO, Warren Buffet has pledged much of his wealth to philanthropic pursuits.
- Carlos Slim Helu & Family, Mexico, net worth $35 billion from telecommunications. Helu is one of the major influences over Mexican telecommunications. In 2007, he was briefly considered the richest person in the world.
- Lawrence Ellison United States Net worth $22.5B from software. Oracle CEO Ellison began in very humble circumstances and built up Oracle form a small business in 1977 to an enormous computer corporation.
- Ingvar Kamprad & Family Sweden Net worth $22B from furniture retail. The founder of IKEA, Kamprad started selling matches as a child and built up his retail business into the multinational corporation that IKEA is today.
- Karl Albrecht, Germany, net worth $21.5B from supermarket retail
- Mukesh Ambani, India, net worth $19.5B from petrochemicals
- Lakshmi Mittal, India, net worth $19.3B from steel
- Theo Albrecht, Germany, net worth $18.8B from supermarket retail ………….
Source : http://www.visualeconomics.com/50-wealthiest-people-in-the-world/
Where The Minerals Are
Source : http://www.newscientist.com
Infographic of the Day: China’s Social Media Map
The major players in the U.S. social media world can be counted on one hand: Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, LinkedIn. Not so in China, where the country’s 300 million online users have a panoply of popular social networks to choose from–and Facebook doesn’t even crack the top 10.
Source : http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/noah-robischon/editors-desk/infographic-day-chinas-social-media-map
The World’s Resources by Country
A country’s economic worth can be measured in more ways than just its GDP and national debt. It is also important to consider the economic potential that lies in the harvesting of the natural resources within its borders. This map shows the top producing countries of each resource, or the proved reserves in the case of oil and natural gas. Each circle represents the percentage of the world’s total that the country produced in the last two years. Though some of the resources are renewable and some are not, it is interesting to see which parts of the world are rich in resources that are essential to our way of life, and to consider what this map might look like 10 or 100 years from now.
