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1 month ago | 
visualcapitalist.com | Julia Wendling |Athul Alexander
The rising influence of data on decision-making continues to deepen as people and companies are collecting and analyzing ever-increasing amounts. This visualization, created in partnership with the Hinrich Foundation, provides visual context to the rapid rise in data creation worldwide, using data from Avison Young. The amount of data being collected, stored, and processed is booming.
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2 months ago | 
visualcapitalist.com | Julia Wendling |Lebon Siu |Athul Alexander
CO₂ emissions are reshaping the rules, costs, and flows of international trade as countries adapt to the push for carbon neutrality. This graphic, created in partnership with the Hinrich Foundation, visualizes CO₂ emissions per person across 30 major economies. Data is from the Emissions Database for Global Atmospheric Research (EDGAR). The analysis comes from the 2024 Sustainable Trade Index (STI), which the Hinrich Foundation produced in collaboration with the IMD World Competitiveness Center.
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Jan 16, 2025 | 
visualcapitalist.com | Julia Wendling |Athul Alexander
Economic health, trade dynamics, and financial stability—among other factors—are critical determinants of currency performance. This graphic, created in partnership with OANDA, illustrates the 2024 performance of the most-traded currencies by region, offering an overall health check on some of the world’s most powerful currencies. The most-traded currency across North America—and the world—is, of course, the U.S. dollar (USD).
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
visualcapitalist.com | Julia Wendling |Lebon Siu |Athul Alexander
Trade significantly impacts a population’s overall health and prosperity, closely linking it to life expectancy. This graphic, created in partnership with the Hinrich Foundation, visualizes life expectancy at birth across 29 major economies. Data is from the United Nations’ Human Development Index (UN HDI). The analysis comes from the 2024 Sustainable Trade Index (STI), which the Hinrich Foundation produced in collaboration with the IMD World Competitiveness Center.
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Nov 21, 2024 | 
visualcapitalist.com | Selin Oguz |Athul Alexander
In the evolving landscape of copper mining, deposits are increasingly challenging to locate and extract. As deposits are found deeper underground, accessing these resources becomes more costly and technically complex, ultimately impacting copper prices. To highlight this trend, Visual Capitalist partnered with BHP to show the depths and sizes of major copper discoveries found since 1900.
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Nov 19, 2024 | 
visualcapitalist.com | Julia Wendling |Athul Alexander
Building a well-balanced, diversified portfolio involves including assets with varying correlations. The U.S. dollar (USD), with its weak or negative correlations to other assets, can be a valuable addition to investors’ portfolios. This graphic, created in partnership with OANDA, illustrates the USD’s correlations with other assets and indices. This insight can provide assistance for evaluating the role of USD in investment portfolios.
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Nov 12, 2024 | 
visualcapitalist.com | Julia Wendling |Lebon Siu |Athul Alexander
The government debt-to-GDP ratio is a key indicator of a country’s financial health. It provides insight into the government’s capacity to manage its debt, shapes fiscal policy flexibility, and plays a crucial role in influencing investor confidence. This graphic, created in partnership with the Hinrich Foundation, shows public debt as a percentage of GDP across 30 major economies. Data is from the IMF’s World Economic Outlook.
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Oct 22, 2024 | 
visualcapitalist.com | Julia Wendling |Lebon Siu |Athul Alexander
This infographic from the Hinrich Foundation introduces the 2024 edition of the Sustainable Trade Index (STI). The STI is an annual ranking of 30 select global economies developed along with the IMD World Competitiveness Center. The purpose of the STI is to stimulate meaningful discussions about the linkages between global trade, sustainability, and resilience, serving as a practical tool for governments, policymakers, and researchers.
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Oct 17, 2024 | 
visualcapitalist.com | Jenna Ross |Athul Alexander
Globally, AI startups have raised more than $650 billion in venture capital in the last decade. But how has the industry grown and changed over time? For this graphic, we partnered with Fasken to explore the change in AI venture capital deal and exit values, along with how these changes have impacted potential investor returns. According to data from Pitchbook, average deal and exit values for AI venture capital grew significantly from 2013 to 2021.
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Oct 10, 2024 | 
visualcapitalist.com | Julia Wendling |Athul Alexander
Each day, billions of dollars are traded on the global foreign exchange (FX) market. The U.S. dollar (USD) is involved in 88% of all trades and makes up 58% of global currency reserves. But which currencies are most frequently paired with the dollar in these transactions? In collaboration with OANDA, this graphic offers a clear visual breakdown of the top currencies traded alongside the USD. The data is based on daily transaction volumes from the New York Fed’s April 2024 FX Volume Survey.
