The 25th annual edition of this perennial favourite has been completely updated, revised and expanded with many new features, including a section exploring the huge global changes since its inception in 1991. Full of facts and figures about the world today - on subjects as diverse as geography, population and demographics, business, finance and the economy, transport, tourism and the environment, society, culture and crime - it is a mine of fascinating data that will both inform and entertain.

Where else would you discover in a single volume that:

*A Big Mac in Israel will cost you twice as much as one in South Africa.
*Qatar has the most obese adult population in the world.
*Rwanda, Bolivia and Cuba have the highest proportions of women in parliament.
*The world's tallest building, the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, is more than twice the height of the Empire State Building in New York.
*The US space budget is more than six times that of its nearest rival, China.

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Personen: Burgess, Andrea Doyle, Mark Davies, Lisa Emery, Ian Gilbert, Andrew

Standort: BSP