Foreign Reserves - no correlation with land mass, amazingly enough!

8.8.8!

So if the % of world reserves were proportional to land area...

• The US (0.6% of world reserves/ 6.5% by area) would be the size of Nigeria (0.87% of reserves.)
• Japan (13.9% reserves/ 0.25% area) would be larger than Russia (8.5% rsvs), say with an Indonesia (0.9% rsvs) or Libya (1.3% rsvs) stuck on the side.
• Both The Untied Kingdom, sans Empire, (0.7%/ 0.16%) and the ECB (0.7%/ 3.0%) would be about the size of Egypt (0.5%) or Mauritania (0.009%)
• China (25.9%!/ 6.4%) would a bit larger than Russia (8.5%), Canada (0.6%) and the US (0.6%) combined.
• Singapore (2.5%/ <0.01%) would be bigger than India (4.3%.)
• So would Brazil (2.6%/ 5.7%), for that matter...
• ... while India (4.3%/ 2.3% would be itself... PLUS Argentina (0.6%.)

You get the idea.

And no, I really can't draw any investment conclusions from this "analysis"!!

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I won't do the exact same thing with populations (too obvious!) but I will say that China's current population is about that of the whole world in ~1850. India's lagging behind only slightly, matching the whole world maybe twenty years earlier? The USA, #3 in the headcount stakes, clocks in at about 1,000 AD (or CE) with #4 Indonesia only about 100 years earlier. Brazil at #5 is only 200 years into AD-space, while #6 Pakistan and #7 Bangladesh individually would be like the world about 200 years the other direction, ie ~200BC (or BCE.)

Err... Buy the BRICS? Yeah! Think about the compounding effect since 1850! Scratch that.

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