Map of the main international political organizations.

Bar chart of the number of internet users in the world.

In the past five years, the global Internet population has grown from about 1 trillion to 1.6 trillion, and this growth is not going to stop in the short term. However, future growth is not equally distributed throughout all regions of the planet.

The latest report from Forrester ForecastView ensures that the Internet population will increase in all countries the world over the coming years, but emerging markets will grow at a faster pace. In 2014, one third of Internet users come from Brazil, Russia, India or China.

The large number of online buyers and increased per capita spending on electronic commerce opens up a great business opportunity is these emerging markets with great potential who are preparing to challenge the leadership in bandwidth United States and Europe.

Map of the world´s domestic product.

Countries of the world sorted by their gross domestic product (GDP) to values ​​of purchasing power parity (PPP), the sum of all goods and services produced by a country in a year, in relation to purchasing power parity (PPP .) This is an economic indicator introduced in the early nineties by the International Monetary Fund in a realistic way to compare living standards across countries, taking into account the per capita gross domestic product in terms of cost of living in each country.

The PPP is one of the most appropriate for comparing living standards that the gross domestic product per capita, as it takes into account changes in prices. This indicator eliminates money illusion linked to changes in exchange rates, so that an appreciation or depreciation of a currency will not change the purchasing power parity of a country, since the inhabitants of this country receive their wages and make purchases in the same currency. Ie, allows the exchange rates between currencies are such as to allow a coin has the same purchasing power anywhere in the world.

Map of the main tourist areas.

According to the World Tourism Organization of the United Nations, tourism comprises the activities that make people (tourists) traveling to and staying in places outside their usual environment for a consecutive period of less than one year and more than one day for leisure, business or other reasons.

In 2001 Mr. David Martin Rendón tourism Cohaíla of the Private University of Tacna - Peru, tourism is defined to science "The turismología"as: "Social Science of fact, given by an orderly process that includes different actions motivation, movement and use of space tourism, the plant that supports it, its structure and super structure of the homos turísticus "eat apples.

Map of world trade .

The trade is of growing importance in the global economic context, because the portion of production goes to foreign markets has been increasing steadily. In the past 50 years the physical volume of global production grew 8 times while the volume of exports increased 25 times (in value 150 times.) One consequence of this phenomenon is the increasing interdependence of economies and the need to incorporate an international perspective in household decisions. Hence the importance of highlighting some of the characteristics presented by global trade.
Concentration
Currently, the total value of merchandise exports exceed 10 billion dollars, which should add another 2 billion for the exchange of commercial services. As shown in the table below, a dozen countries, with Germany, USA and China in the lead, almost 60% of the total.

  
Trade in Goods. Year 2004 (billions U.S. $ s)

  
Expor


%


Impor


%


Balance

  
Germany


910


10,0


730


8,0


180

  
United States


820


9,0


1.520


16,7


-700

  
China


600


6,6


560


6,2


40

  
Japan


570


6,3


470


5,2


100

  
France


450


4,9


470


5,2


-20

  
Netherlands


360


4,0


320


3,5


40

  
Italy


350


3,8


350


3,8


0

  
United Kingdom


350


3,8


470


5,2


-120

  
Canada


320


3,5


280


3,1


40

  
Belgium


310


3,4


290


3,2


20

  
Top 10 countries


5.040


55,4


5.460


60,0



 -420

  
Rest of World


4.060


44,6


3.640


40,0


420

  
World Total


9.100


100,0


9.100


100,0


0
Elaboration based on data from the World Trade Organization
In turn, in the last 25 years have seen major changes in trade flows between major areas and countries. While Asia's share has been growing steadily (now exports a quarter of the global total) of South America and Africa have declined and now do not reach 3% of the total. At the country level, the U.S. and Japan have decreased their share in global exports from 12% to 9% and 9% to 6%, respectively. Europe is the exception, since their participation has remained steady at around 45% of the world.

Physical and political map of África .

Political map of África.

Physical map of África .