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Worldwide Decline in Child Mortality
Deaths in children under 5 have declined by 55% worldwide from 12.6 million in 1990 to 5.6 million in 2016, according to the UNICEF Child Mortality Report 2017. Declines were sharpest in Eastern Asia...
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Amazon’s Record Quarter
Amazon’s Q3 2017 revenue was $43.7 billion, up 34% or $11B from the Q3 2016. A $6.6B increase in North American sales accounted for more than half of the increase. Of the $6.6B, $1.3B was due to the...
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Apple’s Q4 Results in Four Charts
Apple’s revenue was increased from $47B in Q4 2016 to $53B in Q4 2017. Costs also increased and profit was up from Q4 2016, but down from Q4 2015. The revenue increase was accompanied by a strong...
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E-Commerce Growth in Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG)
E-commerce sales of fast moving consumer goods (FMCG) grew 21.1% from 2016 to 2017, according to Nielsen data. Sales through brick and mortar stores grew only 0.1%. FMCG (aka Consumer Packaged Goods)...
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Eating Organic for Thanksgiving
While Americans will be eating a great deal more turkey, ham and breakfast sausage on Thanksgiving, little of it will be labeled natural or organic, according to data provided by Nielsen. We will be...
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Countries with the Most Michelin 3 Star Restaurants
Japan leads with 34 Michelin three star restaurants. These are restaurants that, according to the Michelin guide, provide exceptional cuisine worth a special journey. France, the home of the guide,...
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Cost of a Starbucks Latte Around the World
Starbucks’ tall lattes vary from a high of $5.76 in Zurich to a low of $1.53 in Cairo, according to the Wall Street Journal. This price survey allows them to compare the purchasing power of different...
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iPhone X Journey from Factory to Home
I followed closely as my new iPhone X traveled almost 10,000 miles from the Foxconn factory in ZhengZhou, China to my home in Newton, Massachusetts. UPS package tracking provided a window on the 3...
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Star Wars Franchise by the Numbers
With the opening of The Last Jedi, the Star Wars franchise maintains its position as the top grossing movie franchise, netting $36.2B. Franchise revenue, presented in the Marimekko chart on the left,...
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Apple’s Q4 Results in Four Charts
Apple’s revenue was increased from $47B in Q4 2016 to $53B in Q4 2017. Costs also increased and profit was up from Q4 2016, but down from Q4 2015. The revenue increase was accompanied by a strong...
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E-Commerce Growth in Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG)
E-commerce sales of fast moving consumer goods (FMCG) grew 21.1% from 2016 to 2017, according to Nielsen data. Sales through brick and mortar stores grew only 0.1%. FMCG (aka Consumer Packaged Goods)...
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Eating Organic for Thanksgiving
While Americans will be eating a great deal more turkey, ham and breakfast sausage on Thanksgiving, little of it will be labeled natural or organic, according to data provided by Nielsen. We will be...
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Countries with the Most Michelin 3 Star Restaurants
Japan leads with 34 Michelin three star restaurants. These are restaurants that, according to the Michelin guide, provide exceptional cuisine worth a special journey. France, the home of the guide,...
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Cost of a Starbucks Latte Around the World
Starbucks’ tall lattes vary from a high of $5.76 in Zurich to a low of $1.53 in Cairo, according to the Wall Street Journal. This price survey allows them to compare the purchasing power of different...
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iPhone X Journey from Factory to Home
I followed closely as my new iPhone X traveled almost 10,000 miles from the Foxconn factory in ZhengZhou, China to my home in Newton, Massachusetts. UPS package tracking provided a window on the 3...
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Star Wars Franchise by the Numbers
With the opening of The Last Jedi, the Star Wars franchise maintains its position as the top grossing movie franchise, netting $36.2B. Franchise revenue, presented in the Marimekko chart on the left,...
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American’s Fear of Job Automation
Americans perceive that fast food workers’ jobs are most likely to be automated in their lifetimes and nurses’ jobs are the least likely. They also think their own jobs are not very likely to be...
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Hot Consumer Technologies in 2018
Smart speaker revenue is projected to grow 93% to $3.8B in 2018, according to data from the Consumer Technology Association. Smart home tech will grow 34% to $4.5B. Virtual reality (VR) and drones will...
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Is There Too Much to Watch on Television?
The number of original scripted television series grew 12% per year from 216 in 2010 to 487 in 2017. Online services like Netflix and Amazon accounted for a large part of the growth as shown in this...
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Tech Giant Revenue Mix
The five tech giants have very different revenue mixes as shown in this 100% stacked bar chart. Alphabet and Facebook get almost all of their revenue from ads. Apple relies mostly on hardware and...
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