Leading Countries In Fishing And Aquaculture Harvests
China is unparalleled in total fisheries' production for combined domestic and foreign markets, reeling in 76 billion kilograms in harvests per year.
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Countries Earning Large Shares Of GDP Through Natural Resource Rents
Natural resource rents contribute to more than half of the total GDP sourced from Kuwait.
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Countries With The Highest Water Usage Productivity
Luxembourg, Equatorial Guinea, and Denmark each garner GDPs in excess of $500 for every cubic meter of water used.
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Countries With The Worst Water Use Productivity
Some countries net only around $1 US in GDP for every cubic meter of water they use.
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National Economies With The Best Trade Account Balances
China's net balance of exports and income stood at $330.6 billion dollars at the end of 2015.
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National Economies With The Worst Trade Account Balances
The U.S. trade account balance stood at a deficit of almost half of One Trillion Dollars at the end of 2015.
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Major International Debt Buyback In The Last Decade
Several countries have bought back hundreds of millions of US Dollars worth of their own debt in the last decade.
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Largest Recent Reductions And Forgiveness Of International Debts
Mexico has, through the years, received debt reductions and forgiveness, net of buybacks, exceeding $7 Billion US.
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Major Interest Rescheduling Of National Debts In Recent Years
Multilateral organizations and other governments have given these countries a chance to have their large interest debts rescheduled.
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Countries With The Biggest Banks
Eleven banks in China are enlisted among the top 50 banks in the world by total assets (2015).
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Banks With The Highest Market Capitalization Values
Wells Fargo & Co has the highest market capitalization of over $250 billion USD.
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Highest Earning Insurance Brokers In The World
American firm Marsh & McLennan earned almost $13 Billion US in the last fiscal year, closely followed by AON from Britain.
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Countries Where The Majority Of External Debt Is Owed To Multilateral Entities
Many countries in the developing world have seen most of their external debt owed to multilateral organizations.
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Countries With The Most External Debt
Mexico's current external debt balance totals almost one quarter of a trillion US dollars.
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Rescheduling Of Principal On National Debts In Recent Years
Several nations have had millions of dollars of the principal on their respective loans rescheduled in the last several years.
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Best Export And Income To External Debt Ratios by Country
In Algeria, exports exceed short term external debt by 45 to 1, and in China the same figure stands at 32 to 1.
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Countries With The Most Personal Money Transfers Received
Between employment payrolls and person-to-person transfers, Chinese citizens received $44.4 Billion USD in personal remittances in 2015.
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Countries With The Best External Debt (Relative to GNI)
Turkmenistan's Gross National Income exceeds its short term debt balance by 200 to 1.
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Lowest Real Interest Rates In The World By Country
In some economic situations, it is indeed impossible to have negative real interest rates, as the Ukraine and Sierra Leone have demonstrated as of late.
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Highest Real Interest Rates In The World By Country
Astounding as it may seem, Madagascar's 2015 real interest rate stood at 50%! Several countries in the Persian Gulf and Central Asia are not far behind.
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