Data discoveries of the week, presented in charts. We look at data on India’s impressive global tax revenue, the ‘doomsday clock’, the Sony-Zee deal fallout, a rising ideological gender gap, and more.
- A lesson for retail investors in information assymetry. ?
As a retail investor picking individual stocks, you are at the most risk, limiting your diversification & dealing with huge information asymmetry. Because you are often the last to know.
With the buzz around Sony-Zee deal, here's the most important story in ONE chart ?? pic.twitter.com/8AV2jt49Lz
— Kuvera (@Kuvera_In) January 25, 2024
2. The latest figures suggest the average person spends upwards of 40% of their waking hours on an internet-connected screen.?
An article by @explodingtopics highlights screen-time stats:???
? Global avg: 6h 58m / day, ?50 mins since 2013
? 49% of kids aged 0-2 use smartphones ?
? Gen Z clocks in at 9 hrs dailyHow the countries stack up ?#ScreenTime #DigitalTrends2024 pic.twitter.com/j7N0JcQ9Yc
— Kuvera (@Kuvera_In) January 24, 2024
3. In 2023, the Mexican peso was the top-performing major currency, gaining almost 15% against the dollar.
How the 12 major currencies fared against the dollar in 2023.#ChartOfTheDay pic.twitter.com/IAmc7TJMAq
— Kuvera (@Kuvera_In) January 23, 2024
4. Check out our series on #2024 Outlook for markets & economy by India’s leading AMCs. The SBI MF 2024 Outlook Report shows that India’s real GDP in H1 FY24 grew by 7.7%.
India's real GDP in H1 FY24 grew by 7.7%, driven by investment and stronger manufacturing growth.
However, there is a risk of overestimation due to India's single deflation method, which can exaggerate growth during periods of falling commodity costs.
4/21 pic.twitter.com/mtWOlkLM8u
— Kuvera (@Kuvera_In) January 23, 2024
5. In 2021, the world had 7.1 billion mobile phone users, roughly 90% of the global population.
Ranked: The 15 Best-Selling Mobile Phones of All Time ?https://t.co/h2npbRzRCv pic.twitter.com/CzyzL7t3NA
— Visual Capitalist (@VisualCap) January 26, 2024
6. In countries on every continent, an ideological gap has opened up between young men and women.
An ideological gender gap appears to be emerging within Gen Z, and the consequences could be far-reaching, writes @jburnmurdoch https://t.co/nkWeZpaY5r pic.twitter.com/GhCWfVHsIK
— Financial Times (@FT) January 26, 2024
7. The S&P 500 has risen 5000% since 1970, but only 500% after adjusting for inflation. Investors should be deeply concerned about USD devaluation.
S&P 500 is up more than 5000% since 1970
But is only up 500% when adjusted for inflation
USD debasement should be a MAJOR concern for investors
A thread ? pic.twitter.com/MxL7qYxt8w
— Game of Trades (@GameofTrades_) January 26, 2024
8. Freight has faced tremendous disruption since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Here’s where things stand today.
The global freight cost index just got updated again, and it's now up almost 140% in one month.
This is not the time to underestimate the risk of this exacerbating the inflationary problem.
A second wave is likely in progress. pic.twitter.com/DjxPvEK375— Otavio (Tavi) Costa (@TaviCosta) January 26, 2024
9. Choose your financial advisor wisely. ?
According to data on more than 17,000 U.S. firms, two out of every five firms have at least one conflict of interest ?
Our sponsor @investor_com explores how common conflicts of interest are among U.S. advisory firms.https://t.co/CR7NilPmfA pic.twitter.com/SZihgUWxkX
— Visual Capitalist (@VisualCap) January 25, 2024
10. A worrisome development where interest payments are ballooning into one of the US’s most substantial expenditures.
Charted: All the Major Tech Layoffs in 2024 So Far ?
? Want more content like this, along with daily insights from the world’s top creators? See it first on the @VoronoiApp.https://t.co/P7E32lvjSA pic.twitter.com/OZMvsdRXQy
— Visual Capitalist (@VisualCap) January 23, 2024
11. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists — a scientific advocacy group — reset the world’s “Doomsday Clock” at a mere 90 seconds to midnight. The clock, created in 1947, is a symbol reflecting global instability and nuclear threat.
The Doomsday Clock metaphor is used to "warn the public" about how close we are thought to be to the worst-case scenario. Now though, in 2024, the clock ticked even further, to just 90 seconds – the same position it found itself in at the start of last year. pic.twitter.com/5SmVmwmdns
— Statista (@StatistaCharts) January 26, 2024
12. 2024 is seeing national elections in more than 60 countries worldwide.
According to the Anchor Change Election Cycle Tracker and additional research from Statista, 2024 is seeing national elections in more than 60 countries worldwide. pic.twitter.com/dYZYJE8PRJ
— Statista (@StatistaCharts) January 23, 2024
13. India is the most at-risk country for false information in the world as per WEF’s 2024 Global Risk Report.
In an unprecedented year for elections, false information is one of the major #threats that people around the world will face according to experts surveyed for the World Economic Forum’s 2024 Global Risk Report. pic.twitter.com/S9VLYpmx7S
— Statista (@StatistaCharts) January 22, 2024
14. World slowest cities.
London was the slowest city center to drive through last year, according to TomTom Traffic Index 2022. On average, Londoners could expect to take 36 minutes and 20 seconds to travel just 10 kilometers, and to sit in traffic for an estimated 325 hours per year. pic.twitter.com/sHm9obvaWc
— Statista (@StatistaCharts) January 12, 2024
15. Across the world, women tend to live longer than men. However, the sex gap varies between countries and is not constant over time.
Women tend to live longer than men — why?
What were the death tolls from pandemics in history?
Find answers to these and other questions in our Biweekly Digest!
Read here: https://t.co/7jNbAJewZf
Subscribe here: https://t.co/dx9nknO6G5 pic.twitter.com/ZnCivtYR50
— Our World in Data (@OurWorldInData) December 9, 2023
16. Countries differ a lot in how much taxes they collect??
Do governments worldwide have the ability to implement their policies and achieve their goals?
We just published a new topic page on state capacity @OurWorldinData:https://t.co/Lw6I0JdPpy
A thread on what the page has in store: pic.twitter.com/kXvhymwv3v
— Bastian Herre (@bbherre) December 4, 2023
17. Which networks have the highest number of credit cards in circulation??
Which networks have the highest number of credit cards in circulation?
In the US??, ?Visa is the most popular, having 57.5% of all the credit cards around the world in 2022. ?More and more people seem to be liking Mastercard too, as its share has been going up over the years. pic.twitter.com/w8Fhj2xrxK
— Genuine Impact (@genuine_impact) January 26, 2024
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