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Flow chart
Sources: Home Office; UNHCR; The Economist *2011
Asylum applications by Somalis
Per 100,000 of countrys population
0 10 20 30 40 50 60
5,644
2,181
914
762
1,415*
198
173
669
Total applications, 2012
Sweden
Norway
Denmark
Switzerland
Netherlands
Slovakia
Finland
Britain
2002 2012
*
Sources: The Electoral Commission; YouGov *1-month moving average
Donations by type, m
Voting intention*, %
Brothers in alms
0
2
4
1
3
2010 11 12 13
2010 11 12 13
Company
Conservative
Labour
Individual Company Individual Union
30
35
40
45
Con: Lab:
2
The only way is up
Sources: ONS; The Economist
Employment status of selected nationalities
In England and Wales, 2011, %of total
0 20 40 60 80 100
New Zealand
Poland
Lithuania
Bangladesh
Afghanistan
China
Somalia
Employed
Unemployed
Inactive
Students
Debt-defying
Source: Goldman Sachs
Chinas debt as % of GDP
*Local-government
financing vehicles
0
50
100
150
200
250
2000 02 04 06 08 10 12 15
FCAST
Corporate Government
LGFVs* Consumer
Signs of a turnaround?
Source: National statistics
Chinas industrial production
%increase on previous year
J A S O N D
2012
J F M A M J J
2013
8
9
10
11
Thrifty Europeans
Source: SIPRI
Defence spending, % of GDP, 2012
0 1 2 3 4 5
United States
Britain
France
Poland
Italy
Germany
Sweden
Spain
Russia
S E R B I A
MACEDONIA
B O S N I A
ALBANIA
GREECE
KOSOVO
MONTE-
NEGRO
HUNGARY
ROMANIA
AUSTRIA
ITALY
SLOVENIA
B
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Skopje
Belgrade
Podgorica
Sarajevo
Zagreb
C
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A
T
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Pristina
Republika Srpska
Croat-Bosniak
Federation
Tirana
EU members
Candidates:
Potential Official
150 km
The fog clears
Sources: ISDA; BIS
*Over the counter

Adjusted for double counting

OTC*derivatives, notional amounts outstanding
Year-end, $trn
0
200
400
600
2007 08 09 10 11 12
Total

of which: cleared volumes

Light and shade
Source: Eurostat
*Q1 data

Data not seasonally

adjusted: change fromQ2 2007
GDP, Q2 2013
%change frompre-crisis
peak (2007-08)
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economies at Economist.com/euroguide13
25 20 15 10 5 0 5 +
United States
Germany
France
Japan
Euro area
Britain
Netherlands
Finland
Spain
Portugal
Italy
Ireland *
Greece

Q2 2013, %change on
previous quarter
0.4
0.7
0.5
0.6
0.3
0.6
-0.2
0.7
-0.1
1.1
-0.2
na
na
Resorting to luxury
Sources: Art Price; Vintage Guitar magazine; Florien Leonhard Fine Violins;
HAGI; Liv-ex; Stanley Gibbons; Thomson Reuters; The Economist *Including dividend income
Price indices, $ terms, Q1 2003=100
2003 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13
50
100
150
200
250
300
350
400
450
500
550
Classic cars Art Wine Stamps Coins Guitars Violins
MSCI World* The Economist valuables index
Interactive: Browse prices of different assets over time at Economist.com/val13
Thin slicing
Source: Coalition
*Fixed income, currencies
and commodities

In ten rich countries

Ten largest investment banks FICC* revenue, $bn
0
5
10
15
20
25
30
35
Q1
2011
Q1
2012
Q1
2013
Rates

Credit

Foreign exchange

Securitisation
Emerging markets
Commodities
Global business barometer
Source: The Economist/FT survey
Balance of respondents expecting global business
conditions to improve, 2013, percentage points
10 5 0 5 10 15 20 25 +
Middle East
& Africa
Western Europe
Eastern Europe
Overall
North America
Asia-Pacific
Latin America
Q1
Q2
Q3
Interactive: Track global business confidence with our barometer at Economist.com/bizbaro
Media and entertainment
Worldwide spending, $trn
0
1
2
3
2008 10 12 14 16 17
Digital Non-digital
F OR E C A S T
World GDP
%change on previous year
2
0
2
4
6
+

2007 08 09 10 11 12 13 14
FCAST
A hike to a plateau
Source: National Park Service
Visitors to national parks, m
0
50
100
150
200
250
300
1960 70 80 90 2000 12
Shooting up
Source: Department of Justice
Federal prison population, 000
Of which:
Drug offenders
0
50
100
150
200
1970 75 80 85 90 95 2000 05 11
Total
of which: drug offenders
S U D A N
E G Y P T
L
I
B
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ACairo
SI NAI
Me d i t e r r a ne a n S e a
Gulf of
Suez
Red
Sea
Alexandria
Suez
N
i
l
e
Aswan
Suez
Canal
Port
Said
W E S T E R N
D E S E R T
EASTERN
DESERT
Luxor
Sohag
Fayoum
Minya
Asyut
Zagazig
el-
Arish
Clashes
250 km
Price indices
*Including dividend income
$ terms, Q1 2003=100
2003 05 07 09 11 13
50
100
150
200
250
300
350
MSCI World*
The Economist valuables index
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Staying high
Source: Department of Justice
Federal prisoners, 2010, %
0 20 40 60 80 100
Admissions
Population
Releases
Drug Immigration Weapon
Property Public-order Violent
Type of offence:
Lets get digital
Source: PricewaterhouseCoopers
Worldwide spending on media and entertainment
$trn
F O R E C A S T
0
0.5
1.0
1.5
2.0
2.5
2008 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17
Digital Non-digital
Not my department
Source: US Census Bureau
*Excluding motor vehicles
and restaurants
US:
0
4
8
12
16
0
1
2
3
4
1992 95 2000 05 10 13
department-store sales
As %of total
retail sales*
$trn
SWEDEN
SWITZ.
DENMARK
IRELAND
UNITED
KINGDOM
S P A I N
F R A N C E
AUSTRIA
ITALY
GREECE
BULGARIA
LITHUANIA
LATVIA
ESTONIA
ROMANIA
POL AND
CZECH
REP.
SLOVENIA HUNGARY
SLOVAKIA
GERMANY
NETHER-
LANDS
LUX.
CROATIA
BELGIUM
A T L A N T I C
O C E A N
PORTUGAL
Rotterdam
Hamburg
Genoa
Ljubljana
Prague
Istanbul
M e d i t e r r a n e a n S e a
B l a c k S e a
T U R K E Y
500 km
European rail-
freight corridors
EU
1. Rhine-Alp
2. Benelux-France
4. Atlantic
6. Mediterranean
7. Orient
Others
Retrack
9. Eastern
RICS house-price survey
Source: Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors
England & Wales net balance, %
2010 11 12 13
60
40
20
0
20
40
+