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The Billion Dollar O Gram — a treemap by David McCandless / Information is Beautiful comparing billions of dollars across categories colour-coded by type: spending (purple) includes US defence $968B, Iraq/Iran/Afghanistan wars total cost $5,850B, and Iran War to date $50B; giving (pink) includes $175B to lift 1 billion people out of poverty and $592B donated to charity by Americans; earning (green) includes OPEC revenue $455B, Amazon revenue $717B, and StarGate AI project $500B; accumulating (beige) includes Elon Musk $663B, Jeff Bezos $238B, Mark Zuckerberg $229B, and Bill Gates $106B; owing (grey) includes Africa's foreign debt $708B with $100B owed to China; fighting (blue) includes military budgets for China $317B, Russia $150B, and UK $77B. Updated April 2026. Sources: United Nations, Guardian, CNBC, Wikipedia & news reports.

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The Billion Dollar O Gram — a treemap by David McCandless / Information is Beautiful comparing billions of dollars across categories colour-coded by type: spending (purple) includes US defence $968B, Iraq/Iran/Afghanistan wars total cost $5,850B, and Iran War to date $50B; giving (pink) includes $175B to lift 1 billion people out of poverty and $592B donated to charity by Americans; earning (green) includes OPEC revenue $455B, Amazon revenue $717B, and StarGate AI project $500B; accumulating (beige) includes Elon Musk $663B, Jeff Bezos $238B, Mark Zuckerberg $229B, and Bill Gates $106B; owing (grey) includes Africa's foreign debt $708B with $100B owed to China; fighting (blue) includes military budgets for China $317B, Russia $150B, and UK $77B. Updated April 2026. Sources: United Nations, Guardian, CNBC, Wikipedia & news reports.
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Information Is Beautiful (infobeautiful@vis.social)'s status on Tuesday, 26-May-2026 07:01:48 JST Information Is Beautiful

Every year(ish), since 2009, we’ve been gathering and visualising billions mentioned in news headlines and reports. These gargantuan numbers often make little sense unless put in context and comparison with other billions. Here’s the latest 2026 edition.
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