Archive for the 'Asia' Category

Map of Idle Container Ships

Published on May 25, 2009 in East Asia and Google Earth. Closed

Container ships parked off the Singapore coast. As of March 2009, 11.3 percent of the world’s shipping capacity sat idle from How Google Earth explains the financial crisis found via ChartPorn
Empty ships

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Comparing share of wealth by region/countries

Published on February 10, 2008 in Africa, Americas, Asia, China, Europe, India, Pie chart and Wealth - Share of. 1 Comment

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.

Regional wealth share

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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Income of United States, Japan, India, China, and Indonesia since 1500

Published on January 27, 2008 in Angus Maddison, China, East Asia, GDP per Capita, Income - Average, Median, India, Indonesia, Japan, Line Graph and United States. 5 Comments

I am comparing the GDP per Capita of the United States with Japan, India, China, and Indonesia over the last 500 years. (GDP per Capita for each country is in 1990 international Geary-Khamis dollars, calculated from purchasing power parities (PPPs) of currencies and average prices of commodities.)

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Income of United States, Japan, India, China, and Indonesia since 1500 magnifying glass

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

[tags]income, GDP per Capita, United States, China, India, Indonesia, Japan[/tags]

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