Pocket World in Figures
Pocket World in Figures by Economist is a comprehensive resource published by Profile Books Limited in 2018, featuring 255 pages in English. This edition serves as an essential handbook on global statistics, covering a wide array of topics such as demographics, industry, politics, geography, and culture. It presents intriguing facts, including unique insights about countries like Ukraine and Tajikistan, all compiled in a single volume.
Readers will find updated data from over 180 countries, organized into rankings and detailed country profiles. This edition has been revised and expanded to include new features and statistical profiles of more than 65 major economies, as well as the euro area and the world. Additionally, it showcases the Economist’s expertise in data journalism through various charts and graphs, and it offers an engaging world rankings quiz for readers to test their knowledge.
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For more than 25 years, Pocket World in Figures has been the indispensable handbook on the state of the world, covering demographics, industry, politics, geography, culture and more.
Where else would you find out, in a single volume, that Ukraine is the most equal country on earth, that Tajikistan has the world’s highest divorce rate or that Monaco, uniquely, has more telephone landlines than people?
The new edition includes data from over 180 countries, presented in a series of rankings and country profiles. Updated, revised and expanded each year to include new rankings and features, it also includes detailed statistical profiles of more than 65 of the world’s major economies, the euro area and the world itself.
And, once again, the 2019 edition will showcase the Economist’s strength in data journalism by including charts and graphs, and will invite readers to test their knowledge with its world rankings quiz.
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