Food in Europe continues to rise in price: in June, the price for it increased by an average of 14-15% yoy. At the same time, in countries from the top 3 in terms of food inflation, food prices rose much more: in Turkey by 54.3%, in Hungary by 28.4% and in Serbia by 24%.
The map shows the dependence, the closer a country is to the military conflict in Ukraine, the higher the inflation.
Why is that so?
In reality, it is because neighboring countries are paying the price for maintaining the collapsed former Soviet republic. These are mostly fuel, ammunition, spare parts.
Of course, this is not the only cause of inflation. The policy of the US Federal Reserve and that of the European Central Bank also has a serious impact on inflation in Europe.
And one more very important reason, until a year ago Europe paid relatively cheaply for raw materials from the Russian Federation. Now the United States has taken the place of the Russian Federation, which resells Russian raw materials to Europe.
In Turkey, inflation is due to other factors, rather related to the geopolitics that Erdogan is trying to conduct.
Professional tennis is one of the most profitable mainstream sports in the world. The first top tennis players earn a lot of money and they are always valued in the millions.
Here are the top 10 athletes by total career earnings:
1. Novak Djokovic: $169.8 million (Serbia)
2. Rafael Nadal: $134.6 million (Spain)
3. Roger Federer: $130.6 million (Switzerland)
4. Serena Williams: $94.8 million (USA)
5. Andy Murray: $63.7 million (Scotland)
6. Pete Sampras: $43.3 million (USA)
7. Venus Williams: $42.4 million (USA)
8. Simona Halep: $40.2 million (Romania)
9. Maria Sharapova: $38.8 million (Russia)
10. Petra Kvitova: $36.6 million (Czech)
And this is without taking into account advertising contracts and other earnings.
English remains the most spoken language in the world. However, Mandarin is spoken by 1.117 billion people. Only 15 million people less than the English language.
Almost half as many are Indian Hindi and Spanish is spoken in almost all of South America (except Brazil) and in large parts of Central America and the USA.
The French language is ahead of the Arabic language by a bit, thanks to the many countries in Africa that speak French.
Within about 2000 km, the difference in prices on the continent of Europe exceeds a difference of 400%.
Certainly some countries are extremely expensive to live in, while in others you can get 4 times more goods for the same money.
To help relocators: consumer price index in different EU countries from the most trusted source - Eurostat. For 100, the average level for the European Union is taken. Hence:
- If the index is above 100, then living in the country is more expensive than the average. Such countries are marked in green, and the darker the color, the more expensive they are. Most expensive:
Ireland (146% of the EU average)
Denmark (145%)
Luxembourg (137%)
- Countries with below-average prices are in purple. And then the darker the color, the cheaper life in the state. The cheapest countries:
Romania (58%)
Bulgaria (59%)
Poland (62%)
The biggest price extremes are outside the European Union. Switzerland, Iceland and Norway are the most expensive countries, and Turkey remains the cheapest country with territory on the European continent.
Today in the world, the strength of the world's economies is determined by the Gross Domestic Product (GDP).
Interesting statistics of the countries of the world, when they managed to reach the huge amount of one trillion dollars. In the last two years, however, the United States has printed a staggering amount of dollars valued in the trillions.
It seems that nowadays a trillion dollars is not a fantastic thing for 19 countries.
First was the USA, the last country to reach $1 trillion is Turkey in this year 2023.
When countries reached a GDP of $1 trillion:
1969: USA
1978: Japan
1986: Germany
1988: France
1990: Italy, UK
1998: China
2004: Canada, Spain
2006: South Korea, Brazil
2007: India, Mexico, Russia
2008: Australia
2017: Indonesia
2021: Netherlands
2022: Saudi Arabia
2023: Türkiye
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When we talk about an aging population, we all think of Japan and the nation with the oldest population.
But there are a number of other countries that come close to Japan, and those countries are in Europe. Here are the countries with the most aging populations:
Japan: 48.4
Germany: 45.9
Italy: 45.6
UK: 40.5
Canada: 40.3
USA: 38.5
China: 38.4
South Korea: 37.8
Argentina: 32.6
Russia: 32.4
Brazil: 32.2
Türkiye: 32.2
Indonesia: 30.3
India: 28.4
Mexico: 28.3
South Africa: 27.3
The ranking includes the largest and most developed countries in the world.
Interesting statistics about where young people (male and female) leave their home and settle down to live on their own or with their new family.
Average age of young people leaving parental home in different countries:
Portugal: 33.6
Croatia: 33.3
Slovakia: 30.9
Italy: 29.9
Spain: 29.8
Poland: 29.0
France: 23.6
Germany: 23.6
Netherlands: 23.3
Denmark: 21.3
Finland: 21.2
Sweden: 19.0
The statistics are for Europe, where the north is very clearly distinguished from the south. There is practically no exception, and the main thing is geography. In southern Europe, young people leave the paternal home very late. On the one hand, this is a tradition, on the other hand, incomes in Southern Europe are lower compared to those in Scandinavia.
In Sweden, on average, young people leave their home after completing secondary education.
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Interesting statistics, where people like to get up early in the morning and where they like to sleep late.
Average wake up time:
Colombia - 6:31
Indonesia - 6:55
Japan - 7:09
Mexico - 7:09
Denmark - 7:19
USA- 7:20
Germany- 7:25
Brazil- 7:31
Canada- 7:33
UK - 7:33
India- 7:36
China- 7:42
Turkey- 8:02
Spain- 8:05
Russia- 8:06
Greece- 8:25
Saudi Arabia- 8:27
Interestingly, average waking time does not seem to correlate in any way with a country's economic performance. Pure traditions.
How much money do investors need to retire: Bloomberg conducted a large-scale survey and found out that $3 million is enough for most. But in expensive regions - the USA, Canada, Asia and the Middle East, people prefer to name a large amount - $5 million.
Interestingly, the only region where the $20 million option came out on top was generally poor South America. Perhaps this is due to the fact that investments in the countries of the mainland are not a mass business and are available only to very rich people. Therefore, there are more requests.
The high demands of investors from the Middle East put them at the top of the ranking. They want the most money to retire. Accustomed to luxury goods, people from Dubai, Qatar, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia are the majority in the future retiree category with more than $20 million.
In Africa, $3 million is enough for the majority to retire on, with the majority of Europeans and Australians citing this amount as sufficient.
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Murders in this country are a daily occurrence. No, this is not a country officially at war, like Syria, Ukraine, but a country where drug cartels send huge amounts of drugs to the United States.
Only one single city in the top 10 is from another country, and that is New Orleans, United States.
Mexico is the country with the most dangerous cities in the world and the absolute leader in the ranking.
9 of the 10 cities with the most murders per 100,000 residents are in Mexico (2022 data).
Here is the data:
1. Colima: 181.9
2. Zamora: 177.7
3. Ciudad Obregon: 138.2
4. Zacatecas: 134.6
5. Tijuana: 105.1
6. Celaya: 99.6
7. Uruapan: 78.3
8. New Orleans: 70.6 (USA)
9. Juarez: 67.7
10. Acapulco: 65.6
The leader in the negative ranking is the city of Colima with a population of 123 thousand people and a location quite far from the border with the United States.
