Summary: This summary list on the big numbers in global trade and logistics – including estimated international trade value, total number of sea ports and airports, number of commercial ships and airplanes on the move etc. – could have some relevance for CORE Risk-cluster – to understand better the massive context of global trade and logistics we have to deal with – and well as for CORE WP19 Education and training. The list has been compiled by CBRA.

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Summary list on: big numbers in global trade and logistics, and primary sources for the numeric data:

• Planet earth: Volume 1,083,206,916,846 km3; Surface 70% covered by oceans (NASA 2013)
• People – as consumers / tax payers / workers / voters: 7 billion people (World Bank 2013)
• Total GDP across the globe per year: 52.3 trillion euros (World Bank 2012)
• Total trade value per year: 40 trillion euros (appr. in 2010)
• Value of international trade (imports) per year: 10.5 trillion euros (WTO 2011)
• Total value of logistics business per year: 6.0 trillion euros (Armstrong Associates 2012)
• Total value of international logistics business per year: 1.2 trillion euros (appr. in 2012)
• Number of registered commercial airplanes in the world: >15.000 (appr. in 2011)
• Number of commercial flights per day: 93.000 (Flixxy 2008)
• Number of airports: 9.000 (Flixxy 2008)
• Number of commercial planes flying in the skies (at any given time): 8.000 – 13.000 (Flixxy 2008)
• Number of registered commercial ships in the world: 79.000 (Equasis 2011)
• Number of ships sailing in the seven seas (at any given time): <70.000 (AISLive 2014)
• Number of sea ports: 11.000 seaports (AISLive 2014)
• Number of maritime container movements per year: 200 million (appr. 2005; likely to have grown to 300-400 million by 2015)
• Number of customs administrations: Appr. 190 (based on number of countries with the UN)
• Number of customs officers: Appr. 1 million (based on anecdotes)

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