Some interesting
statistics1 about the G8 countries considered as a whole:
- Population: 820 million
—14% of the world total
- Proportion of population living in Urban areas: 77%
- Land area: 37 million square kilometers
—25% of the world total
(Russia accounts for 46% of the G8 land area)
- GDP: $17.6 trillion
—63% of the total world economy
- Annual defense spending: $520 billion
—appox. 2% of the world economy
- Defense personnel: 3.9 million
- Nuclear missiles: 2231
- Roads: 7.3 million kilometers
(half of them are in the US)
- Motorways/freeways: 118,000 kilometers
(72% of which are in the US)
- Railroads: 691,000 kilometers
- Navigable inland waterways: 190,000 kilometers
(65% of which are in Russia)
- Annual electricity production: 7 trillion kilowatt hours
- Pigs: 158.2 million
- Cattle: 222.6 million
- Goats: 5.3 million
- Sheep: 103.9 million
- Horses: 7.4 million
- College students: 30 million
(1) Source for all data: the Dorling-Kindersley World Reference Atlas