I expected the USA to take the lead but not to such extent!!!
What: Capitalization, USD trillion
When: July 2019
Where: Top 12 world’s stock exchanges
Source: WFE
What are the biggest stock exchanges in the world?
Chart Planet
What are the most traded currencies in the world?
It was expected – US dollar, euro and yen. All the cryptocurrencies are still far away from leaders.
What: Daily averages of OTC foreign exchange turnover by currency, “net-net” basis (which means the total is 200%), percentage share.
When: 2019 April
Where: World
Source: Triennial Central Bank Survey, BIS
Which currency has the biggest value of coins and banknotes in the world if we include cryptocurrencies?
I assume cryptocurrencies are coins. At the end of 2017, there were 3 cryptocurrenciens among top 15.
What: Total banknotes and coins in circulation for normal currencies, market capitalization for cryptocurrencies, USD billion
When: 2017, end of year
Where: 21 major world currency + cryptocurrencies
Source: BIS and CMC
Which currency has the biggest value of coins and banknotes in the world?
Bank of International Settlements has some statistics for this. The dollar is leading, but not as much as in reserves!
What: Total banknotes and coins in circulation, USD billion
When: 2017, end of year
Where: 21 major world currency
Source: BIS
P.S. The use of the donut chart requires additional justification. All the currencies together make 100%. I’m curious how much 2 biggest, 3 biggest, 4 biggest currencies make up together.
Is dollar losing its power in the world?
(I don’t know where did I get this hypothesis from)
Let’s analyze the reserves. So, it’s losing just a bit, but Euro is losing too. And they’re not losing to any particular currency, seems the world is diversifying.
What: Shares of Allocated Reserves
When: 2000-2018Q1
Where: World
Source: IMF
Do the development of a country cause higher suicide rates? Or is it culture?
After quickly analyzing the most developed countries (HDI >0,8), I noticed that grouping countries according to some culture related patterns is quite easy. More analysis should be done (by someone else), but seems, that suicides have more to do with culture than development. Some cultures are able to handle development better, some – worse.
What: Suicide rate vs human development index
When: Suicide rate – 2016, HDI – 2017
Where: Countries with HDI > 0,8
Source: Suicide rate – WHO, HDI – UNDP
Do the development of a country cause higher suicide rates?
Seems like not really. Look, there are high rates among less developed countries, and low rates among more developed ones. What is clearly visible – it’s the higher distribution among well-developed countries!
What: Suicide rate vs human development index
When: Suicide rate – 2016, HDI – 2017
Where: Countries of the world
Source: Suicide rate – WHO, HDI – UNDP
Do people kill themselves more in well-developed countries?
Seems like yes. First world problems – they might be real!
What: Average suicide rate for countries in each human development index decile. Not population-weighted.
When: Suicide rate – 2016, HDI – 2017
Where: World
Source: Suicide rate – WHO, HDI – UNDP
Which countries have the biggest share of oil in their GDP?
This time it’s Arab countries. That’s why they’re associated with oil, they’re dependent on it.
P.S. Region is coded in color and Arabs are orange.
What: Oil rent, % of GDP
When: 2016, except Libya (2011) and Venezuela (2014)
Where: World. Top 25.
Source: WB
Which country has the biggest oil reserves?
Apparently it’s not an Arab country. It’s Venezuela which is still poor??? Maybe Arabs are not just lucky to have this oil, maybe they’re smart enough to use it for their advantage?
What: Crude oil including lease condensate, proved reserves, billion barrels
When: 2016, because data for 2017 is not full yet
Where: World. Top 20.
Source: EIA
Did membership in EU helped new countries to grow their GDP faster?
The graph tells me that further analysis would be purposeless. For most countries, which entered EU in 2004 the fifth year in the union was the time of global crisis. Would have they been better without EU? Well, this is a topic for a deeper analysis.
What: The graph shows 3-year moving averages of annual GDP per capita growth, with value at year 0 (entering the EU) subtracted from all the data series for visual purposes. The “average” is a simple average of all growths without the topmost and downmost values.
When: Years are different for each country depending on its date of joining the European Union.
Where: Countries joined the EU in 2004 and later.
Source: ES
Did Euro adoption cause faster growth of prices?
At the first year seemed that inflation was higher with euro, this was the case for 5 countries out of 7, but after 3 years have passed – only 3 out of 7 had bigger price increase with euro during the whole period. Seems that inflation rise due to euro was a temporary one-time effect which later leveled out for at least half of the countries. In short, I’d say that Euro does not cause inflation in a significant way.
What: Consumer price growth in one, two and three years before the adoption of euro subtracted from consumer price growth in one, two and three years after the adoption of euro. The number on the graph shows how much faster prices grew with Euro than without.
When: Years are different for each country depending on its date of joining the Eurozone.
Where: Countries which joined the Eurozone later, not with the initial group
Source: ES
How are central banks fighting inflation? ECB example.
Whenever inflation goes above the target level of 2%, ECB increases their refinancing rate. Same as FED.
What: Indicated on the graph.
When: 2000 January – 2018 August
Where: Eurozone
Source: ES, ECB
How are central banks fighting inflation? FED example.
Whenever the inflation goes above the target level of 2%, FED increases their refinancing rate.
What: Indicated on the graph
When: 2000 January – 2018 June
Where: USA
Source: FRED and BEA
Which world region has the fastest wage growth?
In Eastern Europe, they’ve risen a lot since 2000, but recently Asia and the Arab States are doing better.
What: mean real monthly earnings of employees, rebased index
When: 2000 – 2015 (well, data is old, but still gives an insight)
Where: World regions according to ILO
Source: ILO