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Gross Domestic Product/ Purchasing Power Parity (GDP/PPP) in thousands of 2011 dollars. PPP controls for cost of living variations, enabling cost comparisons for a similar basket of goods across societies and exchange rates. Save for a few minor oil principalities, U.S. PPP is the highest on the globe. (Source: Our World In Data) NOTE: Year 2018 data is estimated.
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PPP ($k)
U.S. historic Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per person employed (productivity per person), in thousands of 2011 dollars. While average U.S. salaries have all but stagnated for decades, inching upward only slightly since 1980, GDP per capita has doubled during that same period, effectively all profits having gone to a select few. (Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics) NOTE: Data for 1919 to 1959 and 2012 to 2018 is estimated.
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GDP/cap.
($k)
($k)
U.S. national debt, as a percentage of annual Gross Domestic Product (GDP). As of early 2020, additional federal spending due to the Globalist pandemic has likely caused this gauge to peak even higher. (Source: International Monetary Fund) NOTE: Data from 2016 to 2018 is estimated.
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National Debt
(% Annual GDP)
(% Annual GDP)
The number of years the average American would have to work to pay off their individual portion of the federal debt. Number is based on a presumed 3.8% personal savings rate, with citizens contributing 100% of their savings to the U.S. government. (inflation or interest on the debt is not accounted for presently, but it would drastically increase the time to debt payoff) (Sources: Federal Bureau of Economic Analysis, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics)
Percentage of Americans who believe in "God or a 'universal spirit'". Notable is how this percentage has largely held up this past century despite claims that Americans have fallen away from belief in a greater power.(Source: Gallup) NOTE: Data for 1919 to 1943 and 2017 and 2018 is estimated.
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Belief
in God (%)
in God (%)
Percentage of Americans having graduated with a four year college degree. (Source: U.S. Census Bureau) NOTE: Data for 1919 to 1946 and 2016 to 2018 is estimated.
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College
Grads (%)
Grads (%)
Public trust in government. The percentage of citizens who trust the federal government to do "what is right just about always or most of the time". The American People's trust in government has eroded from 90% a century ago to less than 20% today. (Source: Pew Research Center) NOTE: Data for 1919 to 1957 and 2016 to 2018 is estimated.
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Trust
Gov. (%)
Gov. (%)
Total unfulfilled government liabilities (Social Security, Medicare, Pensions, government debts, private debts, etc.) as a percentage of annual U.S. GDP. Government programs represent the present value of estimates of future outlays from the U.S. Congressional Budget Office. (Source: Bridgewater Associates) NOTE: Data for 1919 to 1968 and 2018 is estimated.
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Unfulfilled Debt
Obligations (% GDP)
Obligations (% GDP)
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U.S. historic GINI Index. The GINI index is a scale (from 0 to 100) of relative wealth distribution. A rating of 0 means everyone is equally wealthy, while a rating of 100 means one person owns everything. Notable is how relatively little the index has changed over the decades. (Source: chartbookofeconomicinequality.com) NOTE: Data for 2018 is estimated.
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GINI
Index
Index
Average U.S. hourly wage in 2009 dollars. Sibling to the GDP/Capita gauge opposite this one, wages grew steadily until 1980, having completely stagnated since - a stark contrast to the doubling of GDP per capita (productivity per person) that has occurred during this same period. Feeling richer? (Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics) NOTE: Data from 1919 to 1946 is estimated, as is 2018 data.
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Avg.
Wage ($)
Wage ($)
U.S. historic trade surplus or deficit as a percentage of annual Gross Domestic Product (GDP). (Source: Bureau of Economic Analysis) NOTE: Data for 2018 is estimated.
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Trade Deficit/
Surplus (% GDP)
Surplus (% GDP)
Percentage of employed civilian Americans. As of 2020, this percentage has fallen off a cliff. (Source: Federal Reserve Economic Data) NOTE: Data for 1919 to 1947 is estimated.
As a proxy for numbers of illegal immigrants working in the U.S., historic private sector remittances of U.S. dollars to Mexico in billions of current U.S. dollars. Extrapolating from this, if it is true there were 3 million illegals in the U.S. in 1990, today the number in the U.S. would be well over 30 million (in line with many recent studies), particularly considering many who have been here for decades may have since stopped sending money back home.(Source: World Bank) NOTE: Data for 1919 to 1979 and 2018 is estimated.
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($bil) to
Mexico
Mexico
As a proxy for the drug epidemic, millions of annual opioid prescriptions dispensed by U.S. retail pharmacies. Presently, the number of annual prescriptions roughly equals the number of adult Americans. Are an eighth of Americans each averaging 8 opioid prescriptions a year? A quarter getting 4 prescriptions a year?(Source: IMS Health) NOTE: Data for 1919 to 1952 is estimated. No data for 2014 to 2018.
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Opiates
(million)
(million)
Historic U.S. poverty rate (percent), by the official federal government poverty standard. Despite LBJ's Great Society programs, tens of trillions of dollars spent on decreasing poverty, the poverty rate has barely budged since 1965. (Source: Census.gov) NOTE: Data for 1919 to 1946 is estimated.
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100
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