Global Britain? A brief chronology of an awareness of Britain's existence — Global Britain? A brief chronology of an awareness of Britain's existence — Awesome interactive graphic about #military spending since 1990. Perfect for #superpowers ... see the rise of the developing countries spending increase deposing the likes of the UK and France #geography #geographyteacher. *****Excellent thread. When you discuss #Trump #Brexit or #China , remember that trade really is not everything. There is more at stage now. #geopolitics… *****Reality check about world order: Tony Blair delivers furious tirade against Brexit… A modern take on the classic T-O map. This one shows all the continents. Source. The US had to be talked down from demanding every British colony in the Caribbean.... Dan Snow sur Twitter : "Davis tripping in Washington. In 1940 UK faced a continental foe. Churchill went cap in hand. US agreed to aid in return for handing over plans for: Cavity Magnetron (Radar) Jet engines A practical nuke Check out the name of the Ac.
Superpowers teaching: Year 13 write lots of essays and don't mention any facts...starting with some cheat sheets tomorrow and next week to boost the knowledge in responses.… Twitter. And in the global economy, "if you harp on about having soft power, you don't".… Twitter. Global defense spending: The shifting center of gravity. An understanding of the past century gives context to today’s uncertainty.
It often seems that today is an era of unprecedented, rapid change—and with good reason. Simon Kuestenmacher sur Twitter : "#Map shows the shifting economic center of gravity throughout history (Source Do you see any resemblance with the largest city in history map (click here Power is shi. *****Infographic: Map of global economies with GDP over one trillion US dollars. *****Economic history of the world in one minute by @TheEconomist. *****Which country is the world's leading economic power? (superpowers; geopolitics; perception)
The joy of the bookstore lies in what might be called the analog experience of the physical space: Hushed page-flipping; the sound of two covers sliding against each other as a book is returned to its spot on the shelf; the quiet murmur of, “Have you read this one?”
Luddites and Twitter junkies alike need insulation from the glare of screens and the sounds of speakers. Tomorrow (May 25), Amazon will open its first brick-and-mortar bookstore in New York City. The store is on the third floor of a shopping behemoth in Columbus Circle, where a Borders closed its doors in 2011, just blocks away from where a massive Barnes & Noble sold books for 16 years before it, too, closed. A second Manhattan location will open on 34th Street this summer, adding to the 13 total bookstores planned to be open by the end of the year (currently, there are six stores open). *****UK regions and the countries for which they have an equivalent GDP.
*****Countries with a larger economy than California. Great superpowers comparison in this week's #Economist. GCE geography.… *****Global Energy Architecture Performance Index 2017. *****Growth of GDP. *****Based on PISA education scores which country do US states compare to? This #infographic reminds us that #USA changed it's #energy policy. Massive increase in oil production (through environmentally risky methods) means less reliance on #oil imports from the middle east. Source HT @StatistaCharts… #Map by @AFP shows #military #defense budgets around the world. Would a combined European army make sense?
#Map shows number of #military fighter aircraft across #Europe. I for one had no idea how relatively big the air force in #Poland #Sweden… The tallest #skyscrapers were used to be built in #USA. Now the Arab states and #Asia dominate. European countries with economy smaller than Los Angeles County. Top 30 Motor Vehicle Producing Countries, 2016. A classic chart receives a makeover: The rise and fall of world economies throughout #history. Source. World's largest economies in 2030: 1 China □□ 2 United States □□ 3 India □□ 4 Japan □□ 5 Indonesia □□ 6 Russia □□ #Map shows number of first-class and business-class passengers travelling by air between international cities. #London is the most important… Billionaire #map. Shift from West to East.
For the first time in history there are more billionaires in Asia than anywhere else. #Map shows where the world's supercomputers are located. Another proxy for global influence? Source. Over 2000 years of economic history, in one chart #economics. Venezuela used to be the 4th richest country in the world (GDP per capita) *****#Map shows when countries had their first female leader. Source. Forgive me Twitter for my ignorance, but the reason why #Brazil always speaks first at the #UNGA has blown my mind.
Mapping the "Geography of British Power 2017" - or a post-Brexit geopolitical fantasy? #Discuss. @RHULGeopolitics #geopolitics. *****Nuclear pecking order: There are 14,995 nuclear weapons in the world. Read more. *****#China outperforms #USA in #RenewableEnergy. Falling behind in technology of the future is most un-American. The world's 10 largest economies, 1970—2030. The US needs to 'keep up' with #China's #infrastructure, says the Goldman Sachs CEO. China’s #navy largely caught up with US. Trump's big #military budget might change that? Weird geopolitical climate irony? North Korea is in.
Countries with High English Proficiency Are More Innovative. Jack Ma, the founder of Alibaba, is one of the world’s most successful Internet entrepreneurs.
But Ma has never written a line of code. He did not train as an engineer. Instead, Ma studied English in college, and worked as an English teacher and translator before diving into entrepreneurship. That doesn’t surprise me. Ma’s bilingualism helped him work effectively across cultures and borders, and to pick up on global trends that gave him a critical edge in the 1990s as the Internet arrived in China. When we think of innovation, we tend to think of smart, technically trained people sitting in a room coming up with game-changing ideas. In a global economy, English facilitates those connections. For the past five years we have produced the EF English Proficiency Index, an analysis of the state of global English proficiency. In our most recent report, we’ve applied that analytical lens to national metrics of innovation. Of course, correlation does not equal causation. *****Countries where workers are best at English. In the aviation industry, miscommunication can be fatal.
More than 1,000 deaths in plane crashes have been due to communication failures, often between crews that speak English and crews that don’t. Since 2001, English has been the international language of pilots and air traffic controllers, and airlines across the world have invested in English training programs for pilots, flight attendants, and other customer-facing staff. In its pivot to English, the aviation industry is not unique: Around the world, companies and industries are recognizing the need for a lingua franca, or common language.
We’ve published research that shows countries with higher English proficiency tend to be more innovative and have stronger economies. Corporate leaders, such as Rakuten CEO Hiroshi Mikitani, talk openly about the benefits of “Englishnization.” Until now, it has been difficult to find data about the actual English skills — and skills gaps — of industries worldwide. Benchmark English proficiency. *****Every country with an economy bigger than California is shown in red. *****Russia: Italy's economy is a third bigger. Really puts Russia's disproportionate influence in perspective. More fun maps comparing country size. Which country is the world's leading economic power? *****City ranking: shows which city pulls talent and business. On mobile press on the GIF to stop animation to get a chance to read the #map. Fun little exercise. *****TNCs v countries: Comparing business to country. Read more.
*****How do the US and Chinese economies compare? Read more. Robert Harris: Some of our great political leaders have crossed the floor. But it takes courage. Which countries spend the most on their military? States of Germany as Countries with Similar GDPs #Economics #Germany. This #map needs a close look as it compares cities and countries across #Europe by GDP with regions in #USA.
#StockMarket size: The two biggest ones are both located in #USA (#NYC). Massive concentration of financial power. The Rebalance and Asia-Pacific Security. In April, I laid a wreath at the Manila American Cemetery, in the Philippines, where some 17,000 Americans are buried.
Looking up at the mosaic maps of battles whose names still echo throughout the U.S. Department of Defense—Guadalcanal, Midway, Leyte Gulf, and more—it is hard not to appreciate the essential role that the U.S. military has long played in the Asia-Pacific. The tallest building of each year since 1900. Why China could lead the next phase of globalization. Donald Trump is on his way to becoming the 45th president of the United States.
Among his promises are a 45% import tax on Chinese products, the cancellation of the Paris climate agreement and, as was confirmed today, the end of the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal. If he doesn’t go back on his plans for global trade and international affairs, Trump will give room to other nations to take the lead in shaping globalization.
While the US might be taking a step back from the world – a world it helped to create, to a large extent – China in particular can be expected to take on a more prominent role. While the US is currently the world’s largest economy, in purchasing-power terms China is expected to overtake it in 2016, according to the International Monetary Fund. China has benefited significantly from globalization. This chart shows how China is forecast to overtake the US as the world's dominant economic power by 2030, based on share of global GDP, trade and exports. Image: Economist. Map of the Global Cities index. Global developments have had an increasing impact on contemporary cities, regions, and territories from the societal, economical and geographical points of view.
Since 1998 the impact of word cities into globalization has been extensively studied by the Globalization and World Cities (GaWC) Research Network. GaWC provides a geographic and economic based overview of the world and its evolving configuration. Particularly relevant in this discourse is its categorization of world cities into α, (β and γ tiers, based upon their international connectedness. 10 NATIONS That WILL NOT EXIST in 2115 — TopTenzNet. Very cool #dataviz compares population size by country with #GDP per capita. Takes a second to understand the chart. Worth it though... The twilight of the liberal world order. The liberal world order established in the aftermath of World War II may be coming to an end, challenged by forces both without and within.
The external challenges come from the ambition of dissatisfied large and medium-size powers to overturn the existing strategic order dominated by the United States and its allies and partners. Their aim is to gain hegemony in their respective regions. China and Russia pose the greatest challenges to the world order because of their relative military, economic, and political power and their evident willingness to use it, which makes them significant players in world politics and, just as important, because the regions where they seek strategic hegemony—Asia and Europe—historically have been critical to global peace and stability. At a lesser but still significant level, Iran seeks regional hegemony in the Middle East and Persian Gulf, which if accomplished would have a strategic, economic, and political impact on the international system.
America’s dominance is over. By 2030, we'll have a handful of global powers. The world's political landscape in 2030 will look considerably different to the present one.
Nation states will remain the central players. There will be no single hegemonic force but instead a handful of countries – the U.S., Russia, China, Germany, India and Japan chief among them – exhibiting semi-imperial tendencies. Power will be more widely distributed across non-state networks, including regressive ones. The world’s top economy: the US vs China in five charts. For more than a century, the United States has been the world's biggest economy, accounting for over 24% of the world’s gross domestic product (GDP) in 2016, according to figures from the World Bank.
Image: Visual Capitalist Both the IMF and the World Bank now rate China as the world’s largest economy based on Purchasing Power Parity (PPP), a measure that adjusts countries’ GDPs for differences in prices. In simple terms, this means that because your money stretches further in China than it would in the US, China’s GDP is adjusted upwards. What's Really Happening to Our Planet? #Demographics: change in working age population (2015-25) #India +100M #Africa +44M #Russia 0M #China -29M.
India’s growth is outpacing China’s. Here’s how they did it. India’s GDP per capita (in terms of purchasing power parity) almost doubled between 2007 and 2016, from $3,587 to $6,599. Growth slowed after the 2008 crisis, hitting a decade low in 2012-2013. But if anything, this provided the country with the opportunity to rethink its policies and engage more firmly in the reforms necessary to improve its competitiveness. Growth rebounded in 2014, and last year surpassed that of China. India’s overall competitiveness score was rather stagnant between 2007 and 2014, and the country slipped down the rankings in the Global Competitiveness Report as others made improvements.
However, improvements since 2014 have seen it climb to 39th in this year's edition of the report – up from 48th in 2007-2008. What makes India so competitive? On health and basic education, India almost halved its rate of infant mortality (from 62 to 37.9 per 1,000), increased life expectancy (from 62 to 68) and primary education enrolment (from 88.8% to 93.1%). Share Written by. #GDP per country. #USA and #China grew massively. Considering their low GDP I am wondering why exactly #Russia is still so powerful.
Pre-BREXIT UK was world's 5th biggest economy. Now 7th as India overtakes us. National pride shrank over the last 30 years in #Australia #USA #India #Brazil but rose in most other countries. California = economy of France. How do other US states compare? The US has the largest economy in the world. Its GDP for 2015, according to World Bank data, is over US$18 trillion. This is $7 billion more than China’s, which is in second place. To put this into perspective, here are three maps. Africa In Data - Our World In Data. Comparing #GDP of #USA with #Russia & all former #SovietUnion countries reveals that economic gap is widening between the two #superpowers.
Dominance of USA is over. By 2030, we'll have a handful of global powers. Fun #map shows size of #Africa. #USA & #China easily fit a few times into Africa. Don’t underestimate geopolitical impact Africa will have. #Map shows #military #defence budgets around the world by region. #USA dominates. SaudiArabia almost as bis as #Russia. Moral And Political Chart Of The World (1827) The world's economic centre of gravity, based on GDPs & location. Governance: Vision of Humanity.
Through. These are the world's most fragile states. Somalia is the world’s most fragile state, according the Fragile States Index (FSI), according to the US-based Fund for Peace. The FSI assesses the fragility of countries based on 12 social, economic and political indicators. Since 2004, it has analyzed how wars, peace accords, environmental calamities and political movements have pushed countries toward stability or closer to the brink of collapse. Image: Fragile States Index 2016 Somalia was ranked as the most fragile state.
Civil war has caused instability and violence. Somalia scored over nine (with 10 being the worst score) for every category in the index with ‘demographic pressures’, ‘refugees’ and ‘internally displaced persons’ being some of the worst problems faced by the country. Since gaining independence in 2011, the Republic of South Sudan has faced enormous challenges including famine and horrific ethnic violence, and now civil war is threatening to return. What would the world look like if the wealthiest parts were the biggest? How different would the world look if it was viewed in terms of key information rather than just geography? That’s exactly what this map sets out to show us by altering each country’s size to reflect a range of key pieces of information. Image: Max Galka.