May 4, 2024
What Fits in a $100 Billion Square? Vol. 2
The massive dollar amounts we encounter in the news can be hard to put into perspective, especially in isolation. Here, we show some big dollar amounts side by side as a fun way of comparing these huge sums.
See sources for further reading on any of these examples.
Side note: Has the U.S. government thought of selling Oreos to pay for infrastructure?
Dataset
| What we're comparing this time around | Amount |
|---|---|
| Amount Google pays per year to be the default search engine on Apple devices | $26B |
| Honda’s investment into four EV plants in Ontario, Canada | $15B |
| Value of iPhones produced in India last year | $14B |
| Net worth of John Morris, founder and CEO of Bass Pro Shops | $9B |
| Market cap of Trump Media & Technology Group | $7B |
| TSMC’s net income for Q1 2024 | $7B |
| Student debt cancelled by Biden Administration due to Art Institute fraud | $6B |
| Annual sales of Oreo cookies | $4B |
| Cost of NASA’s planned drone mission to Titan | $3B |
| Amount earmarked for replacing lead pipes in the U.S. | $3B |
| Cost of rebuilding Baltimore’s Key Bridge | $2B |
| Latest humanitarian aid package for Sudan | $2B |
| Value of the Boston Bruins NHL team | $2B |
Data sources
Numbers in the infographic are rounded.
https://www.bizjournals.com/chicago/news/2023/02/01/mondelez-sees-oreo-sales-top-4-billion-in-2022.htmlhttps://www.inc.com/reuters/baltimore-bridge-replacement-price-tag-could-hit-19-billion.htmlhttps://www.cnn.com/2024/05/02/politics/biden-lead-pipe-replacement/index.htmlhttps://www.reuters.com/world/france-germany-eu-mark-anniversary-sudan-war-with-funding-push-2024-04-15/https://www.forbes.com/profile/john-morris/?sh=514466914b51https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-07/honda-eyes-plan-to-build-14-billion-canadian-ev-plant-nikkeihttps://www.statista.com/statistics/193732/franchise-value-of-national-hockey-league-teams-in-2010/https://www.cnbc.com/2024/04/10/apple-made-14-billion-worth-of-iphones-in-india-in-shift-from-china.htmlhttps://fortune.com/2023/10/27/google-denies-search-monopoly-but-pays-26-billion-apple-others-default-status-testimony/
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