The Billion Dollar-o-Gram

The Billion Dollar-o-Gram 2009 figures O Giving O spending O Fighting O Accumulating o Owing Losing O Earning *estimated $300 To lift 1 billion people out of extreme poverty $726 bn US defence budget $227 African debt $3000 Iraq & Afghanistan Wars total eventual cost $780 OPEC revenue $40 Bill Gatess21 Save net worth Amazon $147 Needed to help developing nations combat climate change $206 Big tobacco settlement $61 China $36 Saudi $60 Iraq War predicted cost 2003 S60 UK $25 India $227 Apple Market Value $226 Microsoft $742 Medicare & Medicaid per year market value $405 Walmart revenue $239 BP revenue OPEC climate change fund $3 $199 Interest per year on US Gov deficit Oil spill cleanup $196 Google Market Value $60 Ebay goods $50 Madoff's ругamid scheme $31 Oil spill fine $13 $13 profit Walmart profits $352 |llegal drugs profits $468 US fund for drug abuse $148 Cost of obesity related diseases $308 Donated to charity by Americans 2008 $371 Wall St Revenue 2009 $825 Global pharmaceutical market (alcohol, narcotics & smoking) 2005 $114 Bonuses $31 Profits $36 $34 Alt games medicine Erectile dysfunction S6 Video $69 War On Drugs $30 UN $41 Beijing AIDS worldwide S120 Foreign aid payments $64 Eradicate $19 $21 Games 2008 $40 World-wide porn industry Anti-depressants Gifts to doctors $9 LHC $11,900 Worldwide cost of financial crisis $19 NASA David McCandless // v2.0// Jul 2010 all figures 2009 unless otherwise stated sources: NYTimes, The Guardian, BBC, CNN and other media reports note: some slight visual cheating to make things fit data: http://bit.ly/bndollar InformationIsBeautiful.net