What: % of all respondents in a country which represent this type. Country = 100% , but wider bars indicate, that this % of this type is among the top 3 highest in all listed countries. If you’re looking for this type – it is best to look in this country.
When: Data was gathered in 2018.
Where: Only the countries with representative samples are portrayed in the chart.
Source: MBTI Manual Global Supplements Series | The Myers-Briggs Company (themyersbriggs.com)
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What are the most dominating cities in their countries?
San Juan metro area accounts for more than 3 quarters of the population of Puerto Rico. Same with the Kuwait City metro area in Kuwait.
What: Population distribution between the largest city, the urban area without the largest city, and the rural population. Metro area is meant by the largest city in most cases.
When: 2019
Where: Top ranking countries except one-city countries (like Singapore) from the whole world. Some countries with a total of 26 million inhabitants were excepted because they do not have needed statistics in the Worldbank database. Many of them are small, possibly one-city countries.
Source: Worldbank for numbers, Wikipedia for names.
Which type of waste is best recycled or refilled?
Metallic and glass waste. It’s probably quite easy to reuse metal and refill glass containers.
The least recycled are mixed ordinary wastes of which almost half are generated by households (as seen in the previous chart).
May it be the motivation for sorting – if more mixed waste became recyclable waste, more would be … recycled.
What: Waste recycled or refilled in total waste generated.
When: 2016
Where: Europe
Source: Eurostat
Which countries waste the most in Europe?
The industry giants do: Germany, France and the UK.
Somehow Bulgaria, Serbia and Estonia manage to produce lots of hazardous waste.
What: Waste generated, tonnes
When: 2016
Where: European countries (Turkey is here because it’s in the dataset)
Source: Eurostat.
Is oil the main reason of changes in GDP in Africa
I was deceived!
I saw that Equatorial Guinea, the African country that increased its GDP per capita the most during 1980-2018 had done this due to newly found oil. I saw that Gabon, the African country that decreased its GDP per capita the most during the same period, had done this due to diminishing its oil reserves. So I thought, the same applies to the most of rapidly growing (or contracting) African economies, but that is not true (except for Libya).
The sources of growth might not be very sustainable just like oil, but finding them requires a deeper analysis of every separate country.
What: GDP per capita divided into oil rents, rents from other natural resources and GDP from other sources. Grey bars indicate full GDP value with the unknown division.
When: From 1980 till 2018. Not all countries had a full range of data. No country had its GDP divided for 2018.
Where: Countries of the African continent with the biggest GDP per capita growth during 1980-2018 (top 8) and biggest fall (bottom 4, except South Sudan, which had very short data range)
Source: WB
Do electric cars emit less CO2?
Many people still have doubts about whether the lower emissions of driving an electric car outweighs the additional impact on the environment caused by manufacturing the batteries.
Two studies (the latter is more trustworthy than the former) show that electric cars do help to reduce the CO2 emission. But how much – it depends.
If the batteries are produced in a country where the industry is polluting more (China), reductions will be lower. If the car is driven in a country where electricity is produced by burning things (like Estonia or Poland) the reductions will be lower or even negative.
A special case is Japan, where cars are so fuel-efficient, that electric cars even raise emissions.
So, YES, electric cars are more often better than not.
What: Top = Lifetime emissions of cars in tonnes of CO2. Bottom = Lifetime emissions of cars in grams of CO2 per 1 kilometer.
When: Top = Estimate for 2020, Bottom = Estimate for 2030 with “current technological trajectory” scenario.
Where: Top = EU countries, Bottom = selected countries of the world.
Source: Top = European Federation for Transport and Environment, Bottom = Knobloch, F., Hanssen, S., Lam, A. et al. Net emission reductions from electric cars and heat pumps in 59 world regions over time. Nat Sustain (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-020-0488-7
Do people invest their money?
Among my acquaintances, it is not very common to invest in something more sophisticated than pension funds, however, as this chart shows, in some countries more than half of the money in households are held in the form of equity, funds, bonds and other types of investments.
This data does not show how many households invest, just the amounts of money. It is very likely that only a small fraction of the richest people account for the majority of money in the types of investments I focus on.
But let’s celebrate Estonia, Hungary, USA – I believe a lot of people make conscious decisions about money there. Are they good? That’s another question.
What: Distribution of household financial assets by type.
When: 2018
Where: 36 countries form EU or OECD
Source: Data was mixed from two sources, which seem to be very consistent: Eurostat – Household financial statistics + OECD – Household financial assets
Does the USA dominate the world?
Well, there are some areas where the USA dominates the world. For example, they collect the majority of the money we spend on movies because they have Hollywood. They had almost half of one million most popular websites on the internet. Also, USD is the most traded world currency which takes almost half of the total traded value. Having in mind that one act of currency exchange requires two currencies we can safely assume, that almost all trades involved USD from one side or another.
Surprisingly (at least for me) it does not have the largest army, it is not the biggest CO2 producer, not the biggest car producer.
Do you know any other indicators where the USA dominates the world?
What, When, Source:
GDP in constant 2010 USD, 2018, WB
Daily average of OTC foreign exchange turnover, 2019, BIS
Market capitalization of stock exchanges by country, December 2019, WFE
Military expenditure in constant 2017 USD, 2018, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
945 472 of one million Alexa’s top-ranked websites by country, 2012, pingdom.com
Total worldwide box office by country of movie production, 2019, the-numbers.com – very unreliable data, as written in the source itself – beta version.