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2022-08-24 10:05:10 Sovereign wealth funds per capita around the world

Norway has the most money for its citizens: $279,000 per capita! (We also recently wrote about the world's largest Norwegian sovereign fund)

The second place goes to Singapore (253 thousand dollars per citizen), and further - to oil-producing countries: Kuwait (210), Qatar (164) and the Emirate of Abu Dhabi from the UAE (135)

In our country, despite the abundance of oil/gas, the state has not managed to save up anything more or less noticeable for its citizens: 1466 per capita doesn't compare to the figures of other oil-producing countries and is even inferior to those of China (2378 dollars per capita). Open / Comment

2022-08-23 17:05:21 Inflation in 2022 around the world

According to the most recent data (June-July 2022 for most countries), there are very few countries left with inflation below 5%. China, Japan, Indonesia, Switzerland, the Gulf States and a few smaller countries in different parts of the world. But not long ago, most of the countries in the generalized West were in this group! Now inflation in most of them is noticeably above 5% and sometimes 10%.

In some countries, the situation is close to catastrophic: in Turkey, prices rose by almost 80% for the year, in Argentina - 71%, in Iran - 54%, in some African countries (and in Venezuela, which is not marked on the graph), the figures are even higher Open / Comment

2022-08-23 17:05:21 Inflation in 2022 around the world

According to the most recent data (June-July 2022 for most countries), there are very few countries left with inflation below 5%. China, Japan, Indonesia, Switzerland, the Gulf States and a few smaller countries in different parts of the world. But not long ago, most of the countries in the generalized West were in this group! Now inflation in most of them is noticeably above 5% and sometimes 10%.

In some countries, the situation is close to catastrophic: in Turkey, prices rose by almost 80% for the year, in Argentina - 71%, in Iran - 54%, in some African countries (and in Venezuela, which is not marked on the graph), the figures are even higher Open / Comment

2022-08-23 10:05:14 Countries to which the U.S. has directly intervened militarily in the last 30 years

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the U.S. Army has been present in nearly every part of the world, most often in Africa and the Middle East. But not only: they have fought in Europe (Yugoslavia), and in Latin America, and even in Southeast Asia. Why and who really needed these military operations (at least most of them) is a big, big question... Open / Comment

2022-08-22 10:05:56 st. Open / Comment

2022-08-22 10:05:56 "Cultural map" of the world's ten largest economies

In the figure - the 10 largest economies in the world (the EU is taken as one country) are located on different axes, which determine the characteristics of culture in a particular country

For example, the simplest communication is in the United States and Canada, and the most complex (high-context, which means that context, reading between the lines, hidden cues and other verbal lace are important) - in Asian countries. And here we, by the way, turned out to be more of an Asian country, on a par with Turkey.

That is where we differ greatly from Asia (and from the West, too) is in the level of overt negativity: when assessing something, Russians are in the lead in their readiness to give a negative assessment straight in the face (in Asia, by contrast, this is not common, and not very much in America, either). We lead in the level of confrontation in the case of disagreement with something. In other cultural values we are closer to the East than to the We Open / Comment

2022-08-21 10:05:24 How the distribution of films by genre has changed over the last 100 years

Nothing is new under the moon - and even the genre structure of modern cinema is very similar to what was filmed 60 years ago.

Less comedies were made after their heyday in the 80's and 90's, the number of melodramas also decreased (the first peak of their popularity was in the 20's, the second one - much less in the 90's). But now the horror movies, almost disappearing from the screens at the end of the 90's, are gaining popularity again.

One of the characteristics of the current era: the rise in the popularity of thrillers. Never have so many of them been made in relation to the total number of films released in the world as now! Open / Comment

2022-08-20 14:05:29 hind Liberia, Congo, Djibouti, Burundi, Guinea, ...

National Disaster. One of many. Open / Comment

2022-08-20 14:05:29 Mortality in Russia in 2021

According to the latest United Nations data, Russia in 2021 ranked sixth in the world both in the total number of deaths (2.459 million people) and the mortality rate (17 deaths per 1,000 inhabitants). By the way, it is interesting that the leaders are not African countries, and the European countries (probably due to the high mortality rate of elderly against the background of covid): the first 5 places were taken by Bulgaria, Monaco, Latvia, Serbia and Lithuania. And we are 6, and Ukraine is 7

What is really frightening is mortality of men of working age. Of the men who survive to 15 years do not reach 50 182 out of a thousand, and up to 60 - 340 out of a thousand, that's 28 and 22 places respectively (out of more than two hundred). The places seem to be not as bad as in the previous case, but here we are ahead of even most African countries. We shared our place with Burkina Faso in the male mortality rate from 15 to 50, and from 15 to 60 with Cameroon and Guyana. We were be Open / Comment

2022-08-20 14:05:26 behind Liberia, Congo, Djibouti, Burundi, Guinea, ...

National Disaster. One of many. Open / Comment