With many people choosing 2024’s important financial statistics, I selected three which can be much less recognizable. At $3.43 trillion, .78, and 120.5 million, my numbers symbolize the longer term, the previous, and the current.
Random and Resounding Financial Numbers
#1: $3.43 trillion
We will begin with an image of two rats.
On the proper you may see an AI powered rat whereas an actual one is on the left. The AI model was so convincing that the 2 turned associates:
Our two associates take us to Nvidia, the world’s prime AI chip designer. On November 5, passing Apple, at $3.43 trillion, Nvidia turned probably the most invaluable publicly traded firm. In line with CNBC, its inventory went up a gob smacking 2700% throughout the previous 5 years. Most crucially, shifting from video chip design after the agency began in 1993, it turned an AI chief.
#2: .78
The pictured couple met via a authorities sponsored velocity relationship occasion:
Sufficiently alarmed to be sponsoring actions that may result in extra infants, South Korea has a (method lower than substitute) .78 fertility charge. As you may see under, together with the US, the EU, China, and India, the worrisome development is typical in lots of different international locations. With out sufficient infants, the aged want extra caretakers, and the work drive is just too small to help everybody. Nevertheless, reflecting the tradeoff, we have now impartial girls deciding when to have youngsters.
Proven in brown, a majority of the world’s international locations won’t preserve their present populations:
#3: 120.5 million
Social media firms have come and gone:
Once we quantify downloaded apps, behind Fb and Instagram, TikTok is the third hottest. However nonetheless, as of July 2024, the U.S. TikTok viewers was a whopping 120.5 million folks:
Our Backside Line: Resounding Numbers
As a result of we “treasure what we measure,” $3.43 trillion, .78, and 120.5 million are amongst this yr’s resounding numbers.
Reflecting the longer term and Nvidia, roughly $3.43 trillion was the corporate’s inventory worth. In the meantime, I cared about plunging fertility charges as a result of they displayed the previous ascent of woman energy (that I hope will proceed.) And, as for the current, a serious concern is the present impression of social media.
My sources and extra: At all times glorious, my GZero every day electronic mail had the AI picture and story. In the meantime, the BBC’s World Enterprise Report and The International Story detailed sinking fertility charges as did this text. Then, I used to be impressed by Sherwood’s social media charts.
