MAP: Every Country's Highest Valued Export

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http://www.businessinsider.com/every-countrys-highest-valued-export-2014-5



Using data from the CIA Factbook, we labeled every country in the world by it's highest valued export, a.k.a. the commodity that makes the country the most money in the global market.

Unsurprisingly, most of the world runs on oil, particularly the Middle East and Central Asia.Europe seems to be the world's workshop, where most of the machinery and motor vehicles are made.

The type of machinery ranges from optical instruments to BMWs. Latin America brings a blend of food products and oil to the trading table.

Asia, it seems, is the worlds manufacturing center, where the world's clothing, wood products, and semiconductors are made.



Read more: http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/business/global-economy/140502/world-commodities-exports-map#ixzz31mjV7nIH

[Xipe Totec]

1. Where's the other map; the black market products map?

That's a huge part of the economy these days and if the CIA is the source, I'm sure they track that market as well.

[hatrack]

3. My question exactly: people, cocaine, marijuana, opium; counterfeit drugs, ivory, rhino horn?

No, you got to color within the lines, I guess.

[muriel_volestrangler]

8. Afghanistan is listed as 'opium' (nt)

[A Little Weird]

2. Wow look at Africa

Gold, diamonds, oil -- it's insane that a continent with such products has such widespread poverty.

[jwirr]

11. Insane yes , but it is a perfect example of greed via imperialism. I suspect those mines are still

owned by the colonial rulers of the past.

[Donald Ian Rankin]

12. Stop and think about it a bit.

Gold and diamonds are trade goods. They're not terribly useful, their value comes largely from the fact that they've been adopted as surrogate currencies on account of their rarity. So they won't help you develop an industrial society early.

[arcane1]

13. That unfortunate continent has been continuously looted for centuries

[Leme]

4. Nice, but such a tiny bit of useful information on this map ( except in very broad terms)

Just so easy to make misleading statements and false conclusions from a map like this.
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Overall the internal consumption is not included, so quite a bit is missing.
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It's not like EVERY country has a lot of different resources and infrastructure to EXPORT them.
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Examples.... Saudi Arabia would have a hard time exporting a large amount of soybeans and New Zealand perhaps does not have a lot of excess copper to export.

[CanSocDem]

5. Cars and Car parts...????

I don't think so....You think we don't notice your devious attempts to acquire our water and minerals. Calling us a 'used car lot' won't hide what you're really after.


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[TBF]

6. I wonder what the climate is like

in Madagascar - I know I would love all that coffee!

Seriously, though, I thought the USA made a lot of stuff for the military and weapons in general. Where is that on the list?

[jmowreader]

10. They're considered capital goods

[sinkingfeeling]

7. I think they forgot to include 'military hardware' in the US.

[MisterP]

9. this MIT page is wonderful and gives you a lot of options

http://atlas.media.mit.edu/