The U.S. easily beats other countries in defense spending. In fact, its defense expenditures accounted for 37% of the world’s military budgets in 2015. Last year the total US spending on defense reached $596 billion. This figure is more than the defense spending by the next seven countries combined according to Peterson Foundation. Click to enlarge …
The current U.S. Population is over 324 million according to the US Census Bureau. The population has grown consistently over the years since 1920. In fact, the US population has soared from about 110 million or so in 1920 to 324 million today. Though the land area remains the same more than doubling of the population …
Interesting article on Brexit and its implications in the latest edition of Bloomberg BusinessWeek. Here is a chart showing the options available for UK: Click to enlarge The full article is worth a read.. Source: After Brexit, Here’s What’s Next for Europe, Bloomberg BusinessWeek
The MSCI Frontier Markets Index includes from the countries that are less developed than emerging countries. Frontier markets include countries like Tunisia, Sri Lanka, Estonia, etc. The MSCI classification of countries for the various indices they provide are shown in the chart below: Click to enlarge Note: 2. The West African Economic and Monetary Union …
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The current US map looks like this: Click to enlarge Source: Wikipedia But back in the 1800s the country looked much different. All the states were not yet formed and many were simply grouped as territories. For example, the middle of the country had the “Indian Territory”. The following is a cool map of the USA …