It is, she calculates, in the order of one trillion, although it could be as high as 2.7 trillion.

In 2004, total consumer spending in Latin America and the Caribbean amounted to 0.94 trillion, with the figures being 0.55 trillion for China and 0.35 trillion for India.

The Financial Stability Board has estimated that total global shadow banking assets in 2011 amounted to 67 trillion, with the US accounting for 23 trillion, the eurozone for 22 trillion, and the United Kingdom for 9 trillion.

The 200 Trillion Question

The Three Trillion Dollar War

After two rounds of quantitative easing (QE), the balance sheets of the European Central Bank and the United States Federal Reserve have grown to 3.2 trillion ( 4.1 trillion) and 2.9 trillion, respectively.

So if you want to build a human from DNA origami, the problem is, you need a long strand that's 10 trillion trillion bases long.

At the end of last year, Japan s net international wealth amounted to 296 trillion ( 3 trillion).

China s 3.2 Trillion Headache

These instruments combined worth reached 5.9 trillion last year, led by corporate bonds ( 2.3 trillion).

It is said that the International Monetary Fund, which earlier this year revised upward its estimate of bank losses, from 1 trillion to 2.2 trillion, will announce a new estimate of 3.1 trillion for US assets and 0.9 trillion for foreign assets, figures very close to my own.

US debt exploded to nearly 12 trillion ( 16.7 trillion if intragovernmental holdings are included).

For example, U.S. farmland had a total value of 1.9 trillion in 2010, compared with 16.5 trillion for the US stock market and 16.6 trillion for the US housing market.

Today s 70 trillion world economy will be at 140 trillion before 2030, and 280 trillion before 2050 if we extrapolate from today s growth rate.

The project is estimated to cost Rp.25,4 trillion.

Between November 2008 and June 2009, China s banks issued more than 8.6 trillion ( 1.3 trillion) in new loans.

Of this total an estimated 1.9 trillion are direct costs such as medical care, while 0.2 trillion are indirect costs such as missed work.

Well, it turns out that there's about 27 trillion bits moving inside from the United States to the United States about 4.6 trillion is going over to those European countries about 5.5's going to Japan there's almost no communication between Japan, and nobody else is literate in this stuff.

At the end of 2012, China s commercial banks held 6.4 trillion in core capital and 1.5 trillion in non performing loan provisions, for a risk cushion of roughly 8 trillion.

Total financial losses including possibly 1 trillion in mortgages and related securitized products could be as high as 1.7 trillion.

India s GDP of 3.3 trillion compares to China s 5 trillion, and is 20 that of the United States.

Bank rescue programs on the order of 5 trillion and Keynesian stimulus programs on the order of a further 1 trillion staved off collapse.

There are a trillion hours a year of participatory value up for grabs.

State owned land is valued at more than 7 trillion.

Chinese shadow banking totals only about 2.2 trillion.

Selling 2 trillion of reserves will take years.

Public debt includes not only the federal government s current 13.2 trillion, but another 3 trillion owed by America s states, counties, and cities.

By May 2012, however, the government had changed its mind, with the National Development and Reform Commission approving 7 trillion ( 1.3 trillion) in new projects.

Exposure to domestic sovereign obligations by state owned enterprises and local governments accounts for about 32 trillion, and obligations by private firms amount to roughly 24 trillion.

In 2011, local government debt totaled 10.7 trillion ( 1.7 trillion), with only 54 of more than 2,500 county governments debt free.

Despite a doubling of its balance sheet, to a little more than 3 trillion ( 4 trillion), Europe has slipped back into recession for the second time in four years.

If current trends continue, global annual water usage is set to increase by more than two trillion cubic metres by 2030, rising to 6.9 trillion cubic metres.

One area to target is sovereign wealth funds, whose combined assets are set to grow over the next decade from 3 4 trillion to 10 trillion.

The balance of bank loans to LGIVs increased only slightly in 2012, to 9.3 trillion, from 9.1 trillion in 2011.

Even before this financial crisis, America s national debt was scheduled to increase from 5.7 trillion in 2001 to more than 9 trillion this year.

For example, a trillion dollars of real estate remains uncapitalized in India alone.

The cost could be a staggering 10 trillion.

The world annual Gross Domestic Product is about 65 trillion.

At the same time, the European Central Bank unleashed its 1 trillion ( 1.3 trillion) long term refinancing operation, which pulled the European banking system back from the brink.

And he came close to being successful, as the primary deficit of 28 trillion in 2002 was reduced to just 6 trillion in 2007.

By 2019, total military spending is projected to be 8.2 trillion, exceeding by 2 trillion the budgeted outlays for all non mandatory budget spending.

France has not adopted a balanced budget in the last 30 years, and its public debt reached an unsustainable 1.7 trillion ( 2.2 trillion) in 2011.

Its scale is staggering more than 4 trillion of mergers and acquisitions this year, with tradable and (theoretically) liquid financial assets reaching perhaps 160 trillion by the end of this year, all in a world where annual global GDP is perhaps 50 trillion.

Merrill Lynch predicts that, as currency reserves climb in countries like China, state run investment funds will grow to 7.9 trillion, from 1.9 trillion now.

In other words, we would effectively be spending 40 trillion every year by the end of the century to do just over 1 trillion worth of total good.