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Top 100 Most Populous Countries

June 17, 2008

Rank Country
Population
1 China 1,330,044,605
2 India 1,147,995,898
3 United States 303,824,646
4 Indonesia 237,512,355
5 Brazil 191,908,598
6 Pakistan 167,762,040
7 Bangladesh 153,546,901
8 Russia 140,702,094
9 Nigeria 138,283,240
10 Japan 127,288,419
11 Mexico 109,955,400
12 Philippines 92,681,453
13 Vietnam 86,116,559
14 Germany 82,369,548
15 Egypt 81,713,517
16 Ethiopia 78,254,090
17 Turkey 71,892,807
18 Congo, Democratic Republic of the 66,514,506
19 Iran 65,875,223
20 Thailand 65,493,298
21 France 64,057,790
22 United Kingdom 60,943,912
23 Italy 58,145,321
24 Korea, South 49,232,844
25 Burma 47,758,181
26 Ukraine 45,994,287
27 Colombia 45,013,674
28 South Africa 43,786,115
29 Argentina 40,677,348
30 Spain 40,491,051
31 Sudan 40,218,455
32 Tanzania 40,213,162
33 Poland 38,500,696
34 Kenya 37,953,838
35 Morocco 34,343,219
36 Algeria 33,769,669
37 Canada 33,212,696
38 Afghanistan 32,738,376
39 Uganda 31,367,972
40 Nepal 29,519,114
41 Peru 29,180,899
42 Uzbekistan 28,268,440
43 Iraq 28,221,181
44 Saudi Arabia 28,161,417
45 Venezuela 26,414,815
46 Malaysia 25,274,133
47 Korea, North 23,479,089
48 Ghana 23,382,848
49 Yemen 23,013,376
50 Taiwan 22,920,946
51 Romania 22,246,862
52 Mozambique 21,284,701
53 Sri Lanka 21,128,773
54 Australia 20,600,856
55 Madagascar 20,042,551
56 Syria 19,747,586
57 Cameroon 18,467,692
58 Cote d’Ivoire 18,373,060
59 Netherlands 16,645,313
60 Chile 16,454,143
61 Kazakhstan 15,340,533
62 Burkina Faso 15,264,735
63 Cambodia 14,241,640
64 Malawi 13,931,831
65 Ecuador 13,927,650
66 Niger 13,272,679
67 Guatemala 13,002,206
68 Senegal 12,853,259
69 Angola 12,531,357
70 Zimbabwe 12,382,920
71 Mali 12,324,029
72 Zambia 11,669,534
73 Cuba 11,423,952
74 Greece 10,722,816
75 Portugal 10,676,910
76 Belgium 10,403,951
77 Tunisia 10,383,577
78 Czech Republic 10,220,911
79 Guinea 10,211,437
80 Rwanda 10,186,063
81 Serbia 10,159,046
82 Chad 10,111,337
83 Hungary 9,930,915
84 Belarus 9,685,768
85 Somalia 9,558,666
86 Dominican Republic 9,507,133
87 Bolivia 9,247,816
88 Sweden 9,045,389
89 Haiti 8,924,553
90 Burundi 8,691,005
91 Benin 8,294,941
92 Austria 8,205,533
93 Azerbaijan 8,177,717
94 Honduras 7,639,327
95 Switzerland 7,581,520
96 Bulgaria 7,262,675
97 Tajikistan 7,211,884
98 Israel 7,112,359
99 El Salvador 7,066,403
100 Hong Kong 7,018,636
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WHAT LESSON CAN WE LEARN FROM MISSOURI?

May 28, 2008

 

 

Guys, have you even been to America? If yes, for sure you know that each state has a nickname.  The Americans are very proud of this, and most of them happily sport the moniker on their car license plates. Many of these nicknames seem to make perfect sense. For instance, California, which is home to the gold rush of the mid-19th century, is called The Golden State. Florida, the southernmost mainland state, is called The Sunshine State.

 

Other states resemble natural or manmade wonders – Arizona is The Grand Canyon State, while South Dakota is Mount Rushmore State. Some are simple; you would not get a prize for knowing that New York was The Empire State. Others however, are contradictory; Wyoming is known as either The Equality State or The Cowboy State. Still more are immeasurable. Why Missouri is called The Show Me State?

 

If you travel to Missouri to ask this question, certainly you will met with a variety of stories about heroic local politicians and miner’s strikes, all with reference to the skeptical nature of the state’s denizens.

 

A Missourian, it is said, does not believe anything without proof. This maybe the reason why it has one of the highest percentage rates of smokers in the USA.

 

All this brings us to a more serious point. Barely a day goes by when we are not bombarded with people telling us that our planet is in trouble. Most think it’s entirely our own fault, others think it’s a natural climate cycle. But we can all agree that burning fossil fuels (oil, coal, gas, etc.) is a dirty, wasteful, expensive and negligent way to generate electricity.

 

All of us, that is, except for the residents of the Show Me State, who need proof. As a result, a two-horse town called Rock Port, Missouri, has become the first community in the US to be powered exclusively by wind. The “city” (another American idiosyncrasy: it has 1,300 residents) erected four wind turbines, predicted to generate 16 million kilowatt hours of power each year.

 

Since Rock Port only uses about 13 million kW, it’s free to sell the other three million to the state’s joint municipal utilities, and hopes to freeze power prices for the next quarter century – good news for residents and businesses, not to mention whoever pays the bill for the town’s only traffic signal. The turbines may be a blot on the landscape, but this is a state with half a McDonald’s logo in pride of place in its largest city.

 

Missouri has been shown. It has become a believer in sustainable, clean power from a natural resource. And if somewhere with a reputation for stubborn incredibility can be persuaded, why is it taking the rest of us so long? Missouri is teaching us.

 

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RICHEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD

May 25, 2008
Countries with the Highest GDP per Capita
Rank Country GDP - per capita
1 Luxembourg $ 68,800
2 Equatorial Guinea $ 50,200
3 United Arab Emirates $ 49,700
4 Norway $ 47,800
5 Ireland $ 43,600
6 United States $ 43,500
7 Andorra $ 38,800
8 Iceland $ 38,100
9 Denmark $ 37,000
10 Austria $ 35,500
11 Canada $ 35,200
12 San Marino $ 34,100
13 Switzerland $ 33,600
14 Japan $ 33,100
15 Australia $ 32,900
16 Finland $ 32,800
17 Belgium $ 31,800
18 Netherlands $ 31,700
19 Sweden $ 31,600
20 Germany $ 31,400
21 United Kingdom $ 31,400
22 Singapore $ 30,900
23 France $ 30,100
24 Monaco $ 30,000
25 Italy $ 29,700
26 Qatar $ 29,400
27 Spain $ 27,000
28 Israel $ 26,200
29 New Zealand $ 26,000
30 Brunei $ 25,600
31 Bahrain $ 25,300
32 Liechtenstein $ 25,000
33 Korea, South $ 24,200
34 Greece $ 23,500
35 Slovenia $ 23,400
36 Cyprus $ 22,700
37 Czech Republic $ 21,600
38 Kuwait $ 21,600
39 Bahamas, The $ 21,300
40 Malta $ 20,300
41 Trinidad and Tobago $ 19,700
42 Estonia $ 19,600
43 Portugal $ 19,100
44 Barbados $ 18,200
45 Slovakia $ 17,700
46 Hungary $ 17,300
47 Latvia $ 15,400
48 Lithuania $ 15,100
49 Argentina $ 15,000
50 Oman $ 14,100
51 Poland $ 14,100
52 Saudi Arabia $ 13,800
53 Mauritius $ 13,500
54 Croatia $ 13,200
55 South Africa $ 13,000
56 Chile $ 12,700
57 Libya $ 12,700
58 Malaysia $ 12,700
59 Russia $ 12,100
60 Costa Rica $ 12,000
61 Botswana $ 11,400
62 Antigua and Barbuda $ 10,900
63 Uruguay $ 10,700
64 Mexico $ 10,600
65 Bulgaria $ 10,400
66 Kazakhstan $ 9,100
67 Thailand $ 9,100
68 Iran $ 8,900
69 Turkey $ 8,900
70 Turkmenistan $ 8,900
71 Romania $ 8,800
72 Brazil $ 8,600
73 Tunisia $ 8,600
74 Belize $ 8,400
75 Colombia $ 8,400
76 Macedonia $ 8,200
77 Saint Kitts and Nevis $ 8,200
78 Dominican Republic $ 8,000
79 Panama $ 7,900
80 Belarus $ 7,800
81 Seychelles $ 7,800
82 Algeria $ 7,700
83 China $ 7,600
84 Ukraine $ 7,600
85 Palau $ 7,600
86 Namibia $ 7,400
87 Azerbaijan $ 7,300
88 Gabon $ 7,200
89 Cyprus $ 7,135
90 Suriname $ 7,100
91 Venezuela $ 6,900
92 Peru $ 6,400
93 Fiji $ 6,100
94 Cape Verde $ 6,000
95 Albania $ 5,600
96 Bosnia and Herzegovina $ 5,500
97 Lebanon $ 5,500
98 Swaziland $ 5,500
99 Armenia $ 5,400
100 Nauru $ 5,000
101 Philippines $ 5,000
102 El Salvador $ 4,900
103 Jordan $ 4,900
104 Guatemala $ 4,900
105 Saint Lucia $ 4,800
106 Guyana $ 4,700
107 Paraguay $ 4,700
108 Sri Lanka $ 4,600
109 Jamaica $ 4,600
110 Ecuador $ 4,500
111 Morocco $ 4,400
112 Angola $ 4,300
113 Egypt $ 4,200
114 Syria $ 4,000
115 Cuba $ 3,900
116 Grenada $ 3,900
117 Maldives $ 3,900
118 Dominica $ 3,800
119 Georgia $ 3,800
120 Indonesia $ 3,800
121 India $ 3,700
122 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines $ 3,600
123 Vietnam $ 3,100
124 Bolivia $ 3,000
125 Nicaragua $ 3,000
126 Honduras $ 3,000
127 Iraq $ 2,900
128 Marshall Islands $ 2,900
129 Vanuatu $ 2,900
130 Kiribati $ 2,700
131 Papua New Guinea $ 2,700
132 Cambodia $ 2,600
133 Pakistan $ 2,600
134 Mauritania $ 2,600
135 Lesotho $ 2,600
136 Ghana $ 2,600
137 Cameroon $ 2,400
138 Micronesia, Federated States of $ 2,300
139 Sudan $ 2,300
140 Bangladesh $ 2,200
141 Tonga $ 2,200
142 Laos $ 2,100
143 Samoa $ 2,100
144 Gambia, The $ 2,000
145 Guinea $ 2,000
146 Moldova $ 2,000
147 Mongolia $ 2,000
148 Zimbabwe $ 2,000
149 Uzbekistan $ 2,000
150 Kyrgyzstan $ 2,000
151 Burma $ 1,800
152 Haiti $ 1,800
153 Korea, North $ 1,800
154 Senegal $ 1,800
155 Uganda $ 1,800
156 Togo $ 1,700
157 Cote d’Ivoire $ 1,600
158 Tuvalu $ 1,600
159 Rwanda $ 1,600
160 Chad $ 1,500
161 Nepal $ 1,500
162 Mozambique $ 1,500
163 Bhutan $ 1,400
164 Nigeria $ 1,400
165 Congo, Republic of the $ 1,300
166 Tajikistan $ 1,300
167 Burkina Faso $ 1,300
168 Kenya $ 1,200
169 Sao Tome and Principe $ 1,200
170 Mali $ 1,200
171 Benin $ 1,100
172 Central African Republic $ 1,100
173 Djibouti $ 1,000
174 Liberia $ 1,000
175 Zambia $ 1,000
176 Niger $ 1,000
177 Ethiopia $ 1,000
178 Eritrea $ 1,000
179 Madagascar $ 900
180 Guinea-Bissau $ 900
181 Sierra Leone $ 900
182 Yemen $ 900
183 Afghanistan $ 800
184 Tanzania $ 800
185 East Timor $ 800
186 Burundi $ 700
187 Congo, Democratic Republic of the $ 700
188 Solomon Islands $ 600
189 Comoros $ 600
190 Somalia $ 600
191 Malawi $ 600
Source: CIA World Factbook
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RICHEST PEOPLE IN THE WORLD

May 20, 2008

Rank

Name (nationality)

Net worth ($Bil)

1

Warren Buffett (United States)

  62

2

Carlos Slim Helu & family (Mexico)

  60

3

Bill Gates (United States)

  58

4

Lakshmi Mittal (India)

  45

5

Mukesh Ambani (India)

  43

6

Anil Ambani (India)

  42

7

Ingvar Kamprad & family (Sweden)

  31

8

KP Singh (India)

  30

9

Oleg Deripaska (Russia)

  28

10

Karl Albrecht (Germany)

  27

11

Li Ka-shing (Hong Kong)

  26.5

12

Sheldon Adelson (United States)

  26

13

Bernard Arnault (France)

  25.5

14

Lawrence Ellison (United States)

  25

15

Roman Abramovich (Russia)

  23.5

16

Theo Albrecht (Germany)

  23

17

Liliane Bettencourt (France)

  22.9

18

Alexei Mordashov (Russia)

  21.2

19

Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Alsaud (Saudi Arabia)

  21

20

Mikhail Fridman (Russia)

  20.8
 

Source: Forbes.com

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