Just got my "Pocket World in Figures"

[Yupster]

2006 version from the Economist.

Ask me anything.

I'm gonna post some interesting lists on the off chance people might be interested.

Largest Cities (in millions)

1. Tokyo 35.0
2. Mexico City 18.7
3. New York 18.3
4. Sao Paulo 17.9
5. Mumbai 17.4
6. Delhi 14.1
7. Calcutta 13.8
8. Buenos Aires 13.0
9. Shanghai 12.8
10 Jakarta 12.3

Biggest economies by GDP (in trillions $)

1. USA 10.9
2. Japan 4.3
3. Germany 2.4
4. UK 1.8
5. France 1.8
6. Italy 1.5
7. China 1.4
8. Canada .9
9. Spain .8
10 Mexico .6

Largest Government Defecits (in billions)

1. USA 531
2. UK 30
3. Australia 30
4. Spain 23
5. Italy 21
6. Greece 11
7. Mexico 9
8. Portugal 8
9. Turkey 8
10 Hungary 7

Ten Largest Busineses by sales

1. Walmart
2. BP
3. Exxon
4. Royal Dutch/ Shell
5. General Motors
6. Ford
7. Daimler Chrystler
8. Toyota
9. General Electric
10 Total Fina Elf (French company - I don't know it)

Number of cars per 1,000 people

1. Lebanon 732 (who woulda thunk?)
2. New Zealand 613

14 USA 481

Countries that lead the world in deaths by these disaeases

Breast Cancer Denmark
Lung Cancer Hungary
Child birth Sierre Leone
Tuberculosis Swaziland
Diabetes Mexico (not deaths, prevalence)
AIDS Botswana

Percent of adult men who are obese

1. Lebanon 36.3
4. USA 27.7

Tons of other great info about the world in facts and figures.

[Lost-in-FL]

1. Total Fina Elf

It is French local gas company, like BP is for Great Britain. :hi:

[muriel_volestrangler]

2. Where do the government deficit figures come from? And what year?

Because I'm slightly surprised to not see France and Germany among them. Data from Eurostat for 2005, released in April 2006 (though previous years weren't that different):

all figures in millions
         deficit  % of GDP  $ deficit
Germany  €74,300  3.3       92,132
France   €49,183  2.9       60,987
Italy    €58,174  4.1       72,136
UK       £44,727  3.6       81,403

Average €1 = US$1.24 in 2005, £1 = US$1.82 (source)

The figure for the UK is very different from the one The Economist gives - $81 billion versus $30 billion (I presume The Economist's figure are all in dollars), as is Italy's.

On edit: your figures for "government deficit" look much more like the figure for "current account deficit" - which is not the government, at all, but the balance of payments for the entire country, public or private, in trade with the rest of the world. See the bottom on the CIA Factbook figures for 2004, and the countries and amounts are similar to The Economist list:

140	Czech Republic 	$ -5,730,000,000 	2004 est.
141	Hungary 	$ -7,941,000,000 	2004 est.
142	Greece 		$ -8,000,000,000 	2004 est.
143	Portugal 	$ -8,120,000,000 	2004 est.
144	Turkey 		$ -15,300,000,000 	2004 est.
145	Italy 		$ -21,100,000,000 	2004 est.
146	Spain 		$ -30,890,000,000 	2004 est.
147	United Kingdom 	$ -33,460,000,000 	2004 est.
148	Australia 	$ -38,300,000,000 	2004 est.
149	United States 	$ -646,500,000,000 	2004 est.

http://www.rightnow.org/factbook/rankorder/2187rank.html