Thread by @AndrewPRLevi

“Big”.

Some context.

Annual defence expenditure (round numbers):

🇺🇸 $700 B
🇪🇺 $200 B
🇨🇳 $200 B
🇮🇳 $70 B
🇬🇧 $60 B
🇯🇵 $50 B
🇦🇺 $40 B

Hmm. OK. Economic output next … /1.

“Big”.

Annual economic output (GDP, round numbers):

🇺🇸 $20 T
🇪🇺 $ 15 T
🇨🇳 $ 15 T
🇯🇵 $ 5 T
🇮🇳 $ 3 T
🇬🇧 $ 2 T
🇦🇺 $ 1.3 T

Hmm, again. What about population? … /2.

“Big”.

Population (round numbers).

🇨🇳 1,400 M
🇮🇳 1,400 M
🇪🇺 450 M
🇺🇸 330 M
🇯🇵 125 M
🇬🇧 70 M
🇦🇺 25 M

Alright, let’s check out the land areas … /3.

“Big”.

Size of land territory (round numbers).

🇺🇸 10 M km2
🇨🇳 10 M km2
🇦🇺 8 M km2
🇪🇺 4 M km2
🇮🇳 3 M km2
🇯🇵 0.4 M km2
🇬🇧 0.2 M km2

That’s all for now. /4. End

P.S. Apologies to Tom Hanks, Penny Marshall, Gracie Films & 20th Century Fox. “Big” is not intended to refer to your motion picture work of art. (The only connection, perhaps, is the performative aspect of both the movie & current UK politics).

Sorry: 🇬🇧 should be $3T, about equal with 🇮🇳