Category: Top Ten

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10 Top Carbon Dioxide Emitting Countries


Here are some of the places you may want to avoid on your next vacation.

Rank Country Tonnes of CO2
1. USA 1,650,020,000
2. China 1,366,554,000
3. Russia 415,951,000
4. India 366,301,000
5. Japan 343,117,000
6. Germany 220,596,000
7. Canada 174,401,000
8. UK 160,179,000
9. South Korea 127,007,000
10. Italy 122,726,000
  Top 10 Total 4,946,852,000
  Global Total 7,497,252,000

Carbon Dioxide (CO2) emission in 2004.

As you can see 66% of the world’s CO2 emissions are from the top 10 industrial countries, we really should pay more attention to these figures before it is too late.

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10 Top Global Retailers

Rank Retailer Name, Country Retail Sales (USD)
1. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., USA 344.992B
2. Carrefour, France 97.861B
3. Home Depot, Inc., USA 90.937B
4. Tesco Plc, UK 79.976B
5. METRO AG., Germany 74.857B
6. Kroger Co., USA 66.111B
7. Target Corp., USA 59.490B
8. Costco Wholesale 58.963B
9. Sears Holdings, USA 53.012B
10. Schwarz Unternehmens
Treuhand KG, Germany		 52.422B

2006 Financial year.

You may want to use this list to decide which to avoid.

Source: Stores magazine, 2008 Global Powers of Retailing

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10 Top Vacation Travel Destinations

Rank Country International Visitors
1. France 79,100,000
2. Spain 58,500,000
3. USA 51,100,000
4. China 49,600,000
5. Italy 41,100,000
6. UK 30,700,000
7. Germany 23,600,000
8. Mexico 21,400,000
9. Austria 20,300,000
10. Russia 20,200,000
  World Total 846,000,000

Number of visitors as of 2006.

You may want to use this list to decide where not to go if you want to avoid crowds.

Source: World Tourism Organization

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10 Busiest Airports

Rank Airport Location Passengers
1. Atlanta Hartsfield International Atlanta, GA, USA 84,846,639
2. Chicago O’Hare Chicago, IL, USA 72,028,134
3. London Heathrow London, UK 67,530,197
4. Tokyo International Tokyo, Japan 65,810,672
5. Los Angeles International Los Angeles, CA, USA 61,041,066
6. DFW International Dallas/Fort Worth, TX, USA 60,226,138
7. Charles de Gaulle Paris, France 56,849,567
8. Frankfurt Frankfurt, Germany 52,810,683
9. Beijing Beijing, China 48,654,770
10. Dever International Denver, CO, USA 47,325,016

Number of passengers as of 2007.

This holiday season you may want to take the above into account when you decide on the number of hours ahead of your flight departure to arrive at your airport.

Source: Airports Council International

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10 Top Chocolate Consumers

Rank Country KG LB OZ
1. United Kingdom 10.37 22 14
2. Ireland 10.11 22 5
3. Switzerland 9.65 21 4
4. Germany 8.09 17 13
5. Norway 6.64 14 10
6. Austria 6.15 13 9
7. United States of America 5.72 12 10
8. Belgium 5.67 12 8
9. Denmark 5.44 12 0
10. Sweden 5.05 11 2
World Average 1.04 2 5

Estimate consumption per capita (2007).

The estimated world total consumption of chocolate in 2007 was 6,872,780 tonnes.

Source: Euromonitor International, Global Market Information Database