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2022-05-27 10:05:08 Which countries have more introverts and which countries have more extroverts?

According to the data of 16Personalities (the results of a survey of about 40 million people - true, the respondents themselves decided to take this survey on the website, so the sample is probably biased, but in principle you can compare it), the introverts (purple on the map) are more in the northern countries, and the extroverts - in the south. Which is generally consistent with the usual perceptions. And there are also a lot of introverts in Latin American countries, which is a bit surprising

In Russia introverts turned out to be 7.8% more than extroverts - this is of course not the indicators of the leaders (Lithuania takes the first place for introverts, there they are 11.2% more than extroverts), but all the same it is very noticeable, the second top ten in the rating of countries by introversion level

Nicaragua is the leader in extroverts: there are 15% more extroverts than introverts! Lebanon, Rwanda, Uzbekistan, an Open / Comment

2022-05-26 14:05:05 less than a percentage point Open / Comment

2022-05-26 14:05:04 In the third week of May 2022, Russia recorded deflation

During the week from May 13 to 20, 2022 prices in Russia, according to official data, decreased by 0.02% - purely symbolic, of course, but the fact is important here!

Prices of some types of meat began to decline (pork, for example, by 0.3%), eggs prices decreased by 3.6% at once, sugar lost 0.81% (finally... although it is still almost 1.5 times more expensive than at the beginning of the year). Vegetables made a significant contribution to the reduction of inflation: cabbage (-6.16%), beets (-2%), cucumbers (-9.4%) and tomatoes (-4.3%). It is clear that there is a seasonal effect, but still

Household chemicals are still getting more expensive: soap, shampoos, detergents, and toothpaste are going up in price a little (by about a percent over a week, which is not that much, actually). Electronics are getting cheaper (smartphones have fallen in price by 1.5% over the week), drug prices are going down, but for the most part by symbolic amounts much Open / Comment

2022-05-26 10:05:08 How the prevalence of depression changes with age and gender

Depression is most often experienced by young people - and most often by women. Nearly 20 percent of 18- to 25-year-old women say they've had an episode of depression in the past year; among their male peers, just over 10 percent say they're depressed.

Interestingly, the proportion of women who have experienced depression in the past year remains relatively stable after age 25, while among men there is a second peak in the 35-49 age range (the notorious mid-life crisis?)

Even more interestingly, two things happen at older ages (65+): first, there are almost no people who had depression more than a year ago and remember it, and, accordingly, the proportion of those who had it in the past and forgot about it (but have records of depression and actually did) increases dramatically. Second, the overall share of those who were depressed at some point in their lives drops, because depressed people live less Open / Comment

2022-05-25 17:05:08 Inflation concerns are rising around the world

According to a Statista survey, Russia is the number one country in the world in terms of inflation concerns! Almost three-quarters of Russians believe that inflation is one of the main problems of our country, and this figure has been rising in recent years. Our closest pursuers in terms of concern about inflation are the countries of Latin America: Argentina and Brazil

The figures also look very interesting: yes, we are leading in absolute terms, but in the UK, for example, in 2021/22 compared to a year earlier the share of those worried about inflation has increased by 20 percentage points, from 33% to the current 53%! And in Europe as a whole, inflation is rapidly gaining more and more "supporters": Germany, Spain and Italy are also in the lead in terms of growth rates

The least worried about inflation in China: only about a third of the inhabitants of the Celestial Empire consider rising prices an important problem Open / Comment

2022-05-25 10:05:08 . Open / Comment

2022-05-25 10:05:08 The largest buyers of Russian and U.S. weapons

The largest purchaser of U.S. weapons is Saudi Arabia, more than twice as much as second-best Australia in terms of TIV purchases. TIV are trend-indicator values, conventional units of measurement of the number of weapons, somehow aligning different types of weapons and translating them into numbers. South Korea, the UAE, and Japan come next

Most Russian weapons go to India - about 20% more than American weapons to Saudi Arabia. Incidentally, India also buys weapons from the United States, ranking sixth in the ranking of U.S. buyers. The second largest buyer of our weapons is China, followed by Algeria, Vietnam, and Egypt.

Somehow this is the division: developed countries and the Gulf countries buy from the United States; Asia (both Southeast and Central Asia) and Africa buy from Russia. And India buys arms from everyone, a lot of arms (the most in the world) - also symptomatic, by the way. And they have very significant border disputes there with China. Open / Comment

2022-05-24 17:05:08 China's economic structure in 2021

China has long been much larger than the "factory of the world" it once was. Industrial production in 2021 accounted for just under a third of China's total GDP (37 trillion yuan out of a total of 114), though it remains the largest sector of the economy

Just under 10% of China's economy was trade, with finance, agriculture, construction and real estate not far behind. IT, despite rapid growth, still accounts for just under 4% of China's GDP - but that's actually quite a lot Open / Comment

2022-05-24 10:05:08 Agricultural Producer Price Index in March 2022

The March 2022 Agricultural Producer Price Index is up 1.5% from February - not much compared to consumer food price increases

Producer prices of agricultural goods grew the most in the Kaluga region: by 11.2% for the month! They added 6.9% in Magadan oblast, 6.7% in Chelyabinsk oblast and 6.5% in Moscow (and yes, Moscow also has agricultural producers - and St. Petersburg does not)

Prices went down in Sakhalin (by 2.2%), in Ulyanovsk region (by 2.1%), in Novgorod and Novosibirsk oblasts and in Adygea (everywhere - by about one and a half percent) Open / Comment

2022-05-23 19:05:07 Evolution of income distribution in the world since 1800

A very interesting illustration of how the world is changing - and changing very quickly lately

In 1800, more than two hundred years ago, the most frequent income level in the world was less than a dollar in 2011 prices - in Europe, Asia, and Africa alike. The world was about equally poor

Over the next 175 years, by 1975, incomes in Europe and the Americas had risen to somewhere around $15 in 2011 dollars a day, but in Asia and Africa they remained the same at under $1 a day

But in just another 40 years, by 2015, the modal and median income in Asia had risen by about an order of magnitude (order = 10 times), approaching $10 a day. In Europe and the Americas, meanwhile, it's only gotten to $30-40 a day. And in Africa it is still hovering around $1.

But, thanks to the simultaneous growth of population and income in Asian countries, the world distribution of income has again become unimodal, just like in the early 19th century Open / Comment