This is the funny money machine and its value in 2007 was actually nearly 10 times global GDP.

The Western world's share of global GDP is forecast to drop to 45pc by 2012.

This is slightly less than 0.1% of the global GDP.

Prior to the 19th century, international trade was very low in proportion to global GDP.

Roughly 20 times the global GDP produced over the previous 20 years.

This is why today 2000 companies produce 40% of global GDP.

If we don't protect biodiversity, it will cost us 7 percent of global GDP by 2050.

Overall global GDP will grow by a factor of between 5-25 in the emissions scenarios.

Our strengths are clear: we represent almost a third of global GDP.

In the last 60 years, our share of global GDP has shrunk from 28% to 21%.