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[Joanne98]

Finance And Insurance Exports



Of all the net finance and insurance services exports in the world, 99% of the profit flows to territories in Western Europe. Despite this, almost half of the 24 territories in Western Europe have no net finance and insurance services exports. The main exporting territories for these services are the United Kingdom, Switzerland, Germany and Luxembourg. The Malvinas (or Falkland Islands) are large on this map because they are resized according to the United Kingdom data.

Territory size shows the proportion of worldwide net exports of finance and insurance services (in US$) that come from there. Net exports are exports minus imports. When imports are larger than exports the territory is not shown.

Here's a normal sized map





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[oldtime dfl_er]

1. Im not sure I understand

but those pictures look like a beautiful nightmare

[MichiganVote]

2. I thought the first one was an Untrasound.

[Joanne98]

3. 99% of the profits from financial services goes to W Europe?

How is that possible? Wall Street doesn't even show up on this map.

[tosh]

4. Taxes....or evasion of such.

[Joanne98]

5. I think this is before taxes.

[tosh]

7. I am thinking of the way these sectors structure themselves.

[Joanne98]

6. At least we're beating them in royalty and license fee exports

Only 18 (out of 200) territories are net exporters of license fees and royalties. This means that a few people living in less than a tenth of the territories in the world between them receive the US$30 billion of net export earnings for these services.

The International Monetary Fund explained that royalties and license fees include "international payments and receipts for the authorised use of intangible, non-produced, non-financial assets and proprietary rights ... and with the use, through licensing agreements, of produced originals or prototypes ...". Thus these export earnings are payments for past ideas.


Territory size shows the proportion of worldwide net exports of royalties and license fees (in US$) that come from there. Net exports are exports minus imports. When imports are larger than exports the territory is not shown.

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