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World’s Largest Economies in 2030 Today’s emerging markets are tomorrow’s powerhouses, according to a recent forecast from Standard Chartered, a multinational bank headquartered in London. The bank sees developing economies like Indonesia, Turkey, Brazil, and Egypt all moving up the ladder – and by 2030, it estimates that seven of the world’s largest 10...

The 20 Internet Giants That Rule the Web (1998-Today) With each passing year, an increasingly large segment of the population no longer remembers images loading a single pixel row at a time, the earsplitting sound of a 56k modem, or the domination of web portals. Many of the top websites in 1998 were basically news aggregators or search portals, which are easy concepts to understand. Today,...

Every day, humans consume roughly 63,300,000 megawatt-hours (MWh) of electricity to power our homes, workplaces, and vehicles─about the same produced by over 5,700 Hoover Dams. While present-day electricity generation is slanted heavily in favor of coal and gas on a global basis, renewable sources have started to gain ground. Today’s graphic from Information is Beautiful lists...

The Ins and Outs of Remittance Flows Mapped: The Ins and Outs of Remittance Flows The global immigrant population is growing at a robust pace, and their aggregate force is one to be reckoned with. In 2019, migrants collectively sent $550.5 billion in money back to their home countries—money transfer flows that are also...

The World’s 20 Most Profitable Companies The biggest chunk of the earnings pie is increasingly split by fewer and fewer companies. In the U.S. for example, about 50% of all profit generated by public companies goes to just 30 companies — back in 1975, it took 109 companies to accomplish the same feat: Year Number of Firms Generating 50% of Earnings Total Public...