What governments are the most indebted in the world?

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What governments are the most indebted in the world?

As expected – overdeveloped Japan and troublesome Greece lead, however, the following positions are really versatile, there are absolutely no clues to support the idea that more developed countries are indebted more.

* I have read rumours that China is hiding their actual debt via various schemes with government-owned banks. Their debt might be larger. It’s 50% according to the data I have.

What: General government gross debt as a percent of GDP. I wanted to use net debt, but it was not available for most countries.
When: mostly estimates for 2018
Where: World
Source: IMF WEO report April 2019

How indebted are governments around the world?

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How indebted are governments around the world?

Seems like the more advanced the economy the more indebted it is. Is debt a fuel for growth? Or is it a by-product of it?

What: General government gross debt as a percent of GDP. I wanted to use net debt, but it was not available for most regions.
When: estimates for 2018
Where: regions provided by IMF
Source: IMF WEO report April 2019

Which market is the biggest?

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Which market is the biggest?

I tried to find which market is the biggest in terms of average daily trading volume. Seems that the one we talk least about is the biggest one – it’s derivatives market. What are they? Many people don’t even know!

What: Daily turnover, USD billion
When: Indicated on the graph
Where: World
Source: WFE, BIS, CMC

P.S. The use of a 3D chart requires additional justification: here I have no excuse I did not know what I was doing!

Which currency has the biggest value of coins and banknotes in the world if we include cryptocurrencies?

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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?

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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.

Do the development of a country cause higher suicide rates? Or is it culture?

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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?

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Do 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

Which country has the biggest oil reserves?

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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?

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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