Global biggest industries by revenue in 2024

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12 points·kaycebasques··9 comments

This is clearly wrong. 1 quadrillion for wireless? That's 125k per year per person... That's over 10 times more than global gdp.

Yeah if you click into the report per industry it shows a totally different number -- $1.7T, which is obviously smaller than the ~$5T that the same site lists for oil and gas.

Why is commercial real estate so big? I would expect that residential real estate (both construction and rent) would absolutely dwarf it. Especially post COVID.

Also, since it is raw revenue, car sales is bigger than car manufacturing. They don't get to hold most of these money for long, though.

How fast can hackernewsers do better in the language of their choice?

I feel like this is a question that should be put to almost every submission, just to stimulate the phagocytes as my Da would say.

In this instance probably Python because obviously, but maybe AWK?

Waiting for the APL'ist to do it in 64 characters or less...

Amounts are written like this: $1,102,684,1B. Shouldn't the last comma be a period?

Depends on your localization norms.

Admittedly, though, I don’t recall ever seeing a scheme that uses commas throughout. Usually if the decimal is a comma, the thousands separator is a period, in my experience.

If a human, rather than an LLM, put this list together, and managed to decide that 1102=1.7>5.2, then… I don’t really know what to say.

Surprised to see insurance > banking. But then again I'm not familiar with US markets.

These numbers seem like complete nonsense...not even consistent within each category? Telecom has revenues of 1.7T and also 1.1T ???

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