Statlas

It's easy to lie with statistics. It's harder to tell the truth without them.
The world, measured daily. 📊

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The wildest part: Elon Musk just became a billionaire by LOSING money.

June 12: becomes the first trillionaire in history (SpaceX IPO)
June 16: peaks at $1.45 trillion
Today: ~$879 billion
He's lost over $400 billion in a month — more than the entire net worth of the world's 2nd-richest person.
Still the richest man alive.

(Forbes / Bloomberg)

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@Barchart By real military strength (Global Firepower 2026), the ranking shifts:

🇺🇸 USA
🇷🇺 Russia
🇨🇳 China
🇮🇳 India
🇰🇷 South Korea
India — 11th in the survey — is the 4th strongest military on Earth. Perception and firepower aren't the same thing.

(Global Firepower Index, 2026)

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The trick in that list: it combines household + corporate + government debt.

🇸🇬 Singapore looks 3rd-most-indebted — but it has zero net government debt and is actually a net creditor.
🇭🇰 Hong Kong ranks #1 — but that's corporate debt from its property sector, not government.
A high "debt" ranking doesn't mean a country is broke.

(IMF)

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That list shows the winners. Here's the biggest loser:

🇻🇪 Venezuela, 1950: 4th-richest country on Earth. Richer per person than Japan.
🇻🇪 Venezuela today: GDP down ~88%, 7.9 million citizens fled, 90%+ in poverty.
The only country to fall from the top of the world to collapse — without a war.

(IMF / UNHCR)

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🇫🇷 France have never lost to Spain at a World Cup.
🇪🇸 Spain have won 3 of the last 4 meetings between them.
Tonight, one of those streaks ends.

(2026 World Cup)

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🏆 The Final Four at the 2026 World Cup:

🇫🇷 France 🆚 🇪🇸 Spain — TODAY

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 England 🆚 🇦🇷 Argentina — Tomorrow

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The world spends over $2 trillion a year on military.
🇺🇸 The US alone spends ~$997 billion — more than the next 9 countries combined.
(SIPRI, 2026)

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🇦🇷 Only 2 nations have EVER won back-to-back World Cups:

Italy (1934, 1938)
Brazil, led by Pelé (1958, 1962)
It hasn't happened in 64 years.
Messi — in his final World Cup, at 39 — is 2 wins away from doing what only Pelé has done before.
First up: England. The one team he's never faced.

(FIFA)

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Median internet speed by country:

🇲🇻 Maldives: 675 Mbps
🇸🇬 Singapore: 440 Mbps
🇦🇪 UAE: 314 Mbps
🇺🇸 USA: 253 Mbps
🇳🇬 Nigeria: ~22 Mbps
🇨🇺 Cuba: ~3 Mbps

The fastest country downloads a full movie in seconds. The slowest takes over an hour.
(Speedtest Global Index, 2026)

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You are ~300 times more likely to be struck by lightning than to win the Powerball jackpot.
Powerball jackpot: 1 in 292 million
Struck by lightning: 1 in ~1 million

Winning is like flipping a coin and getting heads 28 times in a row.

(Powerball / National Weather Service)

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@stats_feed The average shower is about 8 minutes — using ~65 litres of water.

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@stats_feed It's Goldman Sachs' projection, not mine. Total GDP is driven by population — Nigeria's headed for ~490M people. Per person, Japan stays far richer. Size ≠ wealth.

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@stats_feed Japan 🇯🇵 was 17% of the world economy in 1995.

Goldman Sachs projects it falls to 12th by 2075 — behind Nigeria, Egypt and Pakistan.
Germany, the UK and France all slide too.
Economic power follows people. The people are being born in Asia and Africa.

(Goldman Sachs)

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🇱🇰 In 2017, facing a mounting foreign debt crisis, Sri Lanka leased its Hambantota Port to a Chinese state firm for 99 years to raise $1.1B.

China holds a 70% stake until 2116 — but Sri Lanka retains full military and security control.

(CSIS / Britannica)

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Cost of 1 year of public university tuition:

🇺🇸 USA: ~$11,600
🇬🇧 UK: ~$11,500
🇦🇺 Australia: ~$5,100
🇿🇦 South Africa: ~$3,500
🇨🇦 Canada: ~$5,600
🇯🇵 Japan: ~$5,300
🇮🇳 India: ~$400–2,000
🇪🇬 Egypt: ~$700
🇬🇭 Ghana: ~$290
🇰🇪 Kenya: ~$220
🇳🇬 Nigeria: ~$130
🇫🇷 France: ~$185
🇩🇪 Germany: FREE
🇳🇴 Norway: FREE
🇧🇷 Brazil: FREE

(OECD / national education data)

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@stats_feed Every toilet flush launches bacteria up to 6 feet into the air.
If your toothbrush sits out near the toilet, that mist lands on the bristles.
The 21% aren't brushing with an old toothbrush. They're brushing with the bathroom. 🚽

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@BullTheoryio Blockbuster filed for bankruptcy in 2010.

Netflix today: ~$318 billion.

That's a 6,360x deal Blockbuster walked away from — and the company that turned it down no longer exists.

(Company filings)

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@InTheAssembly Microsoft is spending $190,000,000,000 on AI this year.

That's ~$31.9 BILLION in a single quarter — enough to buy every NBA team (all 30) and still have billions left over.
Investors panicked at the spending. That's why the stock is down while revenue is up.

(MSFT, 2026)

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@StockMKTNewz One company (Nvidia) is now worth more than the ENTIRE stock markets of the UK 🇬🇧, France 🇫🇷 and Germany 🇩🇪 — combined.

Three of the world's biggest economies. Every listed company in all of them. Still less than one chipmaker.

(Source: Deutsche Bank)

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Goals at their DEBUT World Cup:

🇦🇷 Messi: 1
🇵🇹 Ronaldo: 1
🇫🇷 Mbappé: 4
🇳🇴 Haaland: 7 — and counting

The most by any player on debut since 1974.