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What the World is Buying
The New York Times has a great interactive flash animation showing the way people around the globe spend their discretionary income. The break the categories on clothing and footwear, electronics, alcohol and tobacco, household goods, and recreation showing per capita spending. You can find out all sort of details like: the US spent $162 billion on electronics in 2007 and Japan spent $275.8 billion on recreation in 2007.
For more, go check it out: What Your Global Neighbors Are Buying, where you can also find a link to the related article (which requires logging in).
— michael | September 11, 2008 02:47 PM | I found it online
