Orders of magnitude (currency)

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This is a list of orders of magnitude for money expressed in United States dollars.

$0.01 - used chiefly in making change
$0.10 - price to make a photocopy
$1 - hamburger at McDonald's
* $4 typical drink of "gourmet" coffee
$10 - wristwatch with quartz circuit
$100 - TV, VCR, microwave or pair of shoes
* $400 - approximate annual GDP per capita (PPP) for East Timor (2004, [CIA World Factbook])
$1,000 - used car (15 years old, runs)
* $1,000 - midrange personal computer
* $1,000 - approximate GDP per capita (PPP) for Nigeria (2004)
* $8,800 - approximate world GDP per capita (PPP) (2004)
$10,000 - cheap new car
* $10,000 - approximate GDP per capita (PPP) for Russia (2004)
* $20,000 (Israel, Greece)–$40,000 (Jersey, Norway, United States) - approximate GDP per capita (PPP) in most first world nations (2004)
* $30,000 - cost of an Engineering degree from an average university
$100,000 - small house far from cities
* $100,000 - cost of a Law degree from a prestigious university
$1,000,000 - huge house in suburbs, condo in densest inner cities
$10,000,000 - a small hospital
$100,000,000 - large office building in city
* $264,000,000 - estimated price of an Airbus A380 airplane.
$1,000,000,000 - billion (long scale: milliard)
* $2,500,000,000 - estimated cost of a B-2 Spirit stealth bomber
$10,000,000,000
* $10,570,000,000 - Gross Domestic Product of Iceland in international dollars
* $51,000,000,000 - fortune of Bill Gates, world's richest man, as of 2005 [link]
* $236,000,000,000 - Gross Domestic Product of Greece (CIA World Factbook)
* $276,000,000,000 - F-35 Joint Strike Fighter programme, USA and others (Reuters)
$100,000,000,000 - budget for reconstruction of Iraq
* $420,000,000,000 - approximate United States budget deficit
$1,000,000,000,000 - trillion (long scale: billion)
* $2.5 trillion - approximate United States annual federal budget as of 2005
* $8.3 trillion - United States national debt as of February 2006
$10,000,000,000,000
*$55 trillion - global GDP (PPP)

External links

[GNI per capita 2002, Atlas method and PPP]

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