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Tuesday, September 12, 2017

Top Ten Globe Exporters


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With their fast-spinning abilities, globes are the original fidget spinners! The list in this post reveals the top ten countries or territories exporting globes to other countries in the year 2015. MIT's Observatory of Economic Complexity (↗) allows you to explore a myriad of global trading data. The database of this website includes country-by-country import and export statistics that can be sorted with various displays: blocks (a "tree map"), line graphs, scatter plots, maps, etc. Monetary values are in United States Dollars; percentages mean the share each country has in the global export market of globes.

#1 CHINA $16.1 million (40%)

#2 ITALY $7.36 million (18%)

#3 INDIA $4.68 million (12%)

#4 UNITED STATES $2.36 million (5.9%)

#5 GERMANY $1.8 million (4.5%)

#6 HONG KONG $1.33 million (3.3%)

#7 UNITED KINGDOM $902,000 (2.2%)

#8 SOUTH KOREA $334,000 (0.83%)

#9 The NETHERLANDS $261,000 (0.65%)

#10 POLAND $238,000 (0.59%)

Honorable Mentions

Africa: Egypt and South Africa

Asia and Oceania: Thailand, Japan, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, and Singapore

Europe: Spain, Switzerland, Denmark, Belgium, France, and Luxembourg

North America: Canada, Honduras, Panama, Mexico, and Costa Rica

South America: Argentina and Ecuador

Information Credit
Which countries export Globes, geographical, printed? (2015) (↗) — Observatory of Economic Complexity

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