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Tuesday, September 12, 2017
Top Ten Globe Exporters
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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