Source: Countryeconomy

Taiwan 1965: $229

DR Congo 1965: $215

Taiwan 2000: $14,908

DR Congo 2000: $101

Source: Office for National Statistics - Census 2021 (Download the xlsx file)

This is for White British opposite sex couples: married or in a civil partnership; Separated, but still married or in a civil partnership; Cohabiting by Ethnic group of male usual resident aged 16 or over by ethnic group of female spouse or partner (usual resident) aged 16 or over.

Raw number of couples are included on the right.

"Other Asian" here includes Korean, Japanese, Filipino, Vietnamese, Malay, Thai, Sri Lankan, Nepali, Cambodian, Singaporean, Mongol, Burmese, etc.

Unweighted averages by industry, based on LinkedIn data through June 2026.

Sources: World Economic Forum, Global Gender Gap Report 2026

Sources: International Energy Agency, Statistical Review of World Energy

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I’ve been going through the pictures in a lot of old books lately, and the charts and diagrams are some of my favorite finds. Conventions at this time were unsettled, so people were trying all kinds of things. This one turns the US economy of 1882 into two stacked towers.

The left tower is spending inside the US. The right tower is foreign trade, with each block split into exports on the left and imports on the right. Cotton, for example, is $225M going out and only $2M coming in.

Does the chart work? Well, it’s not the easiest to parse as the perspective throws things off, and there’s no scale. But I do love that someone in the 1880s looked at these numbers and thought they should look like a monument.

Sex ratio at birth: Number of boys born per 100 girls

Sex screening in hospitals (ultrasound-b) mostly became widespread in the 1980s,leading to the mass abortion of females, causing imbalanced sex ratios at birth(amplified in China by the one child policy). For Core millennials to Gen Z, there are many "leftover men" in China,Korea,Taiwan, as well as non east asian nations such as India or Amernia

Source: Betterment | MakeoverMonday; W33