목요일 04 1월 2007

TOP TEN WEALTHIEST COUNTRIES

It's amazing how much money we really have in the world. The world total GNP is about 30 trillion dollars. This is a massive amout of money. Imagine what you could do with 30 trillion. Alot I know. And which country has the largest GNP ( which means gross national product)? It's the good old USA which comes in first at 11 trillion dollars about a third of the worlds gnp. Japan is next with a healty GNP of 4 trillion dollars.

HERE ARE THE REST

AT  3rd Germany at just under    2 trillion
AT  4th United Kingdom              1.6 trillion
AT  5th China                             1.5 trillion
AT  6th France                           1.455 trillion
AT  7th Italy                              1.2 trillion
AT  8th Canada                         .73 trillion
AT  9th Spain                            .655trillion 
AT 10th POOR Mexico                .642 trillion
 
ALot of money  but that dosent mean they are better off. This is mainly due to the country size. For Example all countries here in this list have a population of over 40 million.
 
If you are living in a wealthy country and your GDP per capita is high that is a better measurement of how wealthy each indvidual is.
Here are the top ten GDP ( Gross Domestics Product) per capita of the world.
                    in DOLLARS US
1 Luxembourg 69,737
2 Norway 54,600
3 Switzerland 49,300
4 Ireland 45,675
5 Denmark 44,808
6 Iceland 41,804
7 United States 39,935
8 Sweden 38,493
9 Qatar 37,610
10 Netherlands 37,326
 
It is said that 10% of the worlds population own 90% of the worlds wealth as shown here.
 
USA of course is top of the world and will be for many years as most of the worlds richest people are living there and it also holds some of the worlds largest companies such as EXXON MOBIL and Microsoft.
 
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INTERESTING FACT:  JD ROCKERFELLER was the worlds wealthies man of all time. He had a 900million dollars in the ealry 20th Centuary.  In 1870, Rockefeller helped found the Standard Oil company. Over a forty-year period, Rockefeller built Standard Oil into the largest and most profitable company in the world, and became the world's richest man. If he were alive today he would  be worth 189billion dollars almost 4 times that of the worlds richest man today.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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