Data discoveries of the week, presented in charts. This week we look at interesting data about India’s startup market, India’s digital penetration, the global economic freedom index, China’s economic health, BRICS expansion & more.
1. A collection of infographics on India’s vibrant startup ecosystem 🦄 🇮🇳
India’s fastest unicorn startups 🚀
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— Kuvera (@Kuvera_In) September 7, 2023
2. India’s digital penetration, with one of the largest digitally active population 🤳
🤳🏻 25% of 🇮🇳 India's total population makes digital payments, making it a world leader in real-time payment transactions.#ChartOfTheDay #DigitalIndia pic.twitter.com/3WDoMknEKV
— Kuvera (@Kuvera_In) September 4, 2023
3. The Index of Economic Freedom 2023
Mapped: The State of Economic Freedom in 2023 🗺️https://t.co/9OZ4C1Ancr pic.twitter.com/NeqFjBzx4D
— Visual Capitalist (@VisualCap) September 8, 2023
4. As BRICS get 6 new members, here’s how the older members have done 👇
Visualizing the BRICS Expansion in 4 Charts 🤝https://t.co/PaAIpPWCWo pic.twitter.com/tgUm4tGkP7
— Visual Capitalist (@VisualCap) September 6, 2023
5. Tourism in India: Domestic travel has bounced back, but foreign travellers to India still under 2019 levels. Vishakhapatnam, Varanasi, Madurai, Ahmedabad, Jaipur and Kolkata see the biggest decline. 🛫🚆
Domestic ✈️ travel recovered in Dec, but int'l travel was still below pre-covid level till June.
The reason: fewer foreigners coming to India relative to 2019 (the number of Indians travelling abroad has recovered).@ManjulPaul & I crunch the data:https://t.co/f6oEJiVp6q pic.twitter.com/YDkUcMX8LR
— Tanay Sukumar (@TanaySukumar) September 7, 2023
6. The relation between gold price and US debt 🪙
Visualizing Gold Price and U.S. Debt (1970-2023) 🏆️https://t.co/HvyofnXzqX pic.twitter.com/S5BEpsuGbg
— Elements (@VCElements) September 8, 2023
7. SIP investments are growing steadily. 📈
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If there is one big mega trend unfolding before us, it’s the stupendous growth of SIP investments in the market. In July 2023, the monthly SIP inflows hit an all-time high, surpassing 15,000 Cr. Since FY16, SIP inflows have grown at a CAGR of 19.8%.
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— KK (@iKrishnaAppala) September 7, 2023
8. Venture funding in the US💰
💰50 largest VC funding deals reached $32B so far in 2023, with $13.2B of that for AI startups🤖️.
🤖️OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, is currently the recipient of the largest venture funding deal of 2023 so far at $10B.#AI #Chatgpt #openAI #etf #data #dataviz pic.twitter.com/417cn7ryRY
— Genuine Impact (@genuine_impact) September 6, 2023
9. The US streaming services with the largest subscribers 👇
🍿️Over the years, 'soft consumption' such as entertainment has gained lots of traction, thanks to on-demand streaming services🎵.
💗Which is your favourite streaming company🎬?#entertainment #Netflix #Disney #amazon #Spotify #data #dataviz #datavisualisation #datavisualization pic.twitter.com/5rzrcwbLiE— Genuine Impact (@genuine_impact) September 7, 2023
10. With all of the EV conversations in India, here is what China’s EV industry is looking like 🇨🇳
Battery demand in China's EVs, energy storage, and consumer electronics remains weak, with no rebound in lithium prices. #TrendForce predicts two key factors likely to stabilize the price decline.https://t.co/AkpTzO6oOb
— TrendForce (@trendforce) September 7, 2023
11. Global central bank rates 🏦
Global Central Bank Update:
-Chile cut rates for the 2nd meeting in a row, 75 bps decrease to 9.50%. pic.twitter.com/1hsYHKnP74— Charlie Bilello (@charliebilello) September 7, 2023
12. Another data on China’s economic health 🇨🇳
The last thing the world needs is a weaker RMB. China is running a record trade surplus once you factor in that the 2022 surplus was inflated by its zero COVID policy. For its own good, China needs to rebalance away from exports to consumption. RMB needs to rise to do that… pic.twitter.com/CfZNOK4Xqe
— Robin Brooks (@RobinBrooksIIF) September 7, 2023
13. 🚘 Car ownership in every state of India 👇🏻
What percentage of households in India own a car in India? 🚙 pic.twitter.com/PYa2KYLiBS
— The Madhya Pradesh Index (@mp_index) September 3, 2023
14. 🇧🇷 Brazil lost a decade 📉 due to the fall in commodity prices. And it seems to be back 📈.
Brazil's lost decade is over. Real GDP growth is back to where it was a decade ago. Maybe there never was anything actually "wrong" with Brazil. Brazil is a commodity exporter. Global commodity prices collapsed in 2014, hitting Brazil. That shock is ending and Brazil is back… pic.twitter.com/2goWc6BBqG
— Robin Brooks (@RobinBrooksIIF) September 3, 2023
15. Real house prices have jumped 3.25 x in 🇨🇦 Canada since 2000. Adjustment, or a bubble?
The housing bubble in Canada is going to pop …
Change in house prices for G7 countries since 2000:
🚨🚨🚨 pic.twitter.com/M9FD7a2SlF— Wall Street Silver (@WallStreetSilv) September 3, 2023
16. 10Y stock performance of companies with higher paid CEOs vs the lower paid ones 👇🏻
The highest paid CEOs don't tend to deliver the best stock performance 👀 pic.twitter.com/6KnHsFE7Qp
— Markets & Mayhem 🤖 (@Mayhem4Markets) September 3, 2023
17. Impact of inflation in the US since 2000. 📺 TVs have gotten cheaper, while 🏥 hospital services are now a lot more expensive.
https://twitter.com/Mayhem4Markets/status/1698292451897696627/photo/1
18. Dividend yields of MSCI Emerging Markets Index are 2x that of the S&P 500. Apna time aa gaya?
Is this the set-up for emerging markets? The MSCI Emerging Markets index has a dividend yield of 3.10%, or about double the 1.49% yield on the S&P 500. The gap between the two is wider than any time in the pre-Covid era, 1994-2020. pic.twitter.com/5ow1ULDZv0
— Jeff Weniger (@JeffWeniger) September 3, 2023
19. The 25 best stocks from 1926-2022. These have created nearly 33%, or over $17.6 trillion of all shareholder wealth.
Out of 28,114 publicly-listed U.S. companies analyzed over past century, 25 best stocks have created nearly 1/3 of all shareholder wealth; put another way, just 0.1% of stocks have added over $17.6 trillion to investors’ wallets; @VisualCap graphic from Henrik Bessembinder of… pic.twitter.com/YlALiChCJ1
— Liz Ann Sonders (@LizAnnSonders) September 6, 2023
20. Weight-loss and Type 2 diabetes drugs Ozempic/Wegovy by Novo Nordisk are creating waves in Denmark’s economy (drug maker’s home country). In fact, their govt. now publishes its GDP data excluding them, and here’s what happens. Blue is Denmark’s total GDP growth 👉🏻 1.7% . Orange is contribution of country’s pharmaceutical industry to GDP 👉🏻 2%, and green is the GDP without pharma 👉🏻 -0.3%!
Demand for weight-loss drugs Ozempic/Wegovy is so large that the government of Denmark (where drugmaker Novo Nordisk is from) now has to publish GDP data excluding it
Since the first half of 2022 (left), headline GDP growth has been 1.7% (blue), but ex-Pharma it's -0.3% (green) pic.twitter.com/TtlkheSfXj
— Joey Politano 🏳️🌈 (@JosephPolitano) September 6, 2023
21. Ending with this interesting take 👀
for every $1 humanity spends on AI safety, we spend $424 on butt plugs pic.twitter.com/g6hu4pxZFd
— AI Notkilleveryoneism Memes ⏸️ (@AISafetyMemes) September 1, 2023
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