Reported by: Josh Haskell, Design: Ma'ayan Rosenzweig, Developed by: Greg Atria
  • The Pope and the Catholic Church
  • Queen Elizabeth and the British Government
  • Barack Obama and the U.S. Government
  • Bill Gates and Microsoft Inc.
  • Tim Cook and Apple Inc.
  • Carlos Slim and América Móvil Inc.
The data represented above represents the number of years each organization has been in existence.
The financials for the Catholic Church are represented by the spending of entities of the church for fiscal year 2010. For the US and UK governments, spending is shown for fiscal year 2012. For Microsoft, Apple and América Móvil, the data represented is 2012 sales. All figures are in US dollars.
The data above is the number of Catholic priests worldwide for 2009, the number of public sector workers in the UK in 2012, the number of federal workers in the U.S. in 2012, and employees at Microsoft, Apple and América Móvil in 2012.
The data shows members of the Catholic Church worldwide. For the UK and the US, it’s current population. For Apple, we’ve combined the number of Mac, iPod, and Apple’s iOS operating system users. For América Móvil, the figure is subscribers in Latin America. For Microsoft, it’s Windows users.
This data comes from Twitter.com and lists the number of followers for those pictured above who have verified accounts.
Carlos Slim and Tim Cook do not have verified twitter accounts.