Trillions – What is a trillion dollars?

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

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

UPDATED: 4th Sep 2020
ORIGINAL: 16th Aug 2018

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Sources:

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

Credits:

Design & research: David McCandless

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