Willkommen Germany,

Another country to add to the fast growing list. It is interesting that most of the world's richest countries are now listed as having visited my blog. However, the 25 countries only make up 13% of the all the countries that are out there so I still have a long way to go.

Those 25 countries may only be a small fraction of the number out there but they represent over 2.2 billion people or 34% of the world's population. Perhaps even more interesting they have 70% of the world's money ($31,045,216,000,000) and use 63% of the world's annual electricity supplies (8,991,664,700,000 kWh). That's a hell of an electricity bill.

I think that this shows that the internet is not yet a truly global tool, it will take a long time for that to happen. We've all seen these figures many times over (5% of people control 95% of the money - or something like that) but I had never proved them for myself before. My first argument was that I write in English but if you have a look at the countries in that list of 25 many of them are not English speaking nations.

The internet is already the only way to get a real feel for what is going on in the world in countries where they have government controlled media and it is a product of the countries that have all of the money so we shouldn't knock that too much. I hope that in a few years anybody, anywhere in the world will be able to browse the internet and figures like those in the country list in the side-bar of this page will be more representative of the world's population.