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information is beautiful Trillions – What is a trillion dollars?

How much is a trillion dollars? Exactly. Who knows? Nobody.

But here are a load of trillion dollar values visualized so you can at least *see* what $trillion looks like.

Data: bit.ly/IIB-TRILLIONS

» The New York Times did a nice interactive on this theme

Sources

Bloomberg, NYTimes, The Guardian, CNN, Washington Post, World Bank

Credits

Design & research: David McCandless

See the data

http://bit.ly/IIB-TRILLIONS

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