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Text Box 5.27: Aircraft Passengers
Of all the air passengers in the world, 40% fly on aeroplanes registered in the United
States. These flights are both domestic and international. In the year 2000 there were
1.6 billion aircraft passengers. In these statistics, every time a person takes a flight, they
are counted as an aircraft passenger. Some people are passengers many times in a year
so far fewer than 1.6 billion individual people fly in a year.
Most of the world's cities are now within 36 hours of each other
(Peter Haggett, 2001)
5.2.27 Valuable net imports
The movement of valuables around the world in 2002 was responsible for trade worth
a total value of US$76 billion. What do we like so much that we collectively spend just
under the annual Gross Domestic Product of the Philippines on it over the same 12 month
period every 12 months? The answer is pearls, precious and semi-precious stones (0.9 per
cent of international trade; in the following parentheses we give per cent of international
trade made up by this item), silver, platinum and similar metals (0.2 per cent), developed
cinema film (less than 0.05 per cent), watches and clocks (0.3 per cent), printed matter
(0.5 per cent), works of art (0.2 per cent), gold and silver ware, and jewellery (0.4 per
cent), musical instruments and parts (0.5 per cent), mail (less than 0.05 per cent), special
transactions (1.8 per cent), old coins that are non-gold (less than 0.05 per cent) and other,
non-monetary form of gold (0.4 per cent). Territories where people spend more than they
earn from trade in valuables are shown in Figure 5.30 (the map of net valuables exports is
available online, as are paired import/export maps of almost all world trade).
Figure 5.30 Territory size shows the proportion of worldwide net imports of valuables (in US$)
that are received there. Net imports are imports minus exports. When exports are larger than imports
the territory is not shown (Worldmapper Map 70)
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