Normally 6, 000 workers churn out 240, 000 cars a year, a twentieth of Honda's global output.
Second, how best to measure global output depends on the purpose of the measurement.
Meanwhile, oil prices rose and Yukos, which was pumping 2% of global output, saw its shares rocket.
Robin Bhar, senior metals analyst with Credit Agricole CIB, estimated 15% to 20% of global output is unprofitable.
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The dollar accounts for over half of official reserves, for example, more than twice America's share of global output.
By 2020, offshore oil production is expected to account for 34% of the global output opposed to 25% in 1990.
China may now have 45 percent of global capacity for smelting aluminum, but it also consumes 40 percent of global output.
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But in 2012, total financial assets are nearly 10 times the value of the global output of all goods and services.
Worldwide, nuclear energy has made great strides in electricity generation, accounting for 16% of global output, up from 3% three decades ago.
Optimists think Germany can keep its share of world trade, which grows twice as fast as global output, and thus stay ahead.
So joining OPECs March pact to cut global output was no sacrifice.
The firm said in a report to clients on Tuesday that emerging economies will remain the driver of global output, led by China.
Global output is rising at its fastest pace in 20 years.
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Global output is around some 100 billion pieces a year.
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Earlier this month the U.S. Department of Energy released new figures for 2010, showing that global output of carbon dioxide had increased by the biggest amount on record.
His book addresses the argument in cost-benefit terms, and concludes that spending 1-2% of global output to avoid a significant temperature rise is a bargain worth taking a similar conclusion to that in his original 2006 study.
One major bank, Barclays Capital, put out a research report this week offering a specific estimate, saying it looks for a decline in 2011 global output by 300, 000 metric tons, or 1.9%, to 15.8 million tons.
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Kona Haque of Macquarie Bank points out that copper mines have produced 1m tonnes or so less than planned in each of the past three years (over 5% of global output), and are likely to do so again this year.
By feeding into his model both some recent science on the increased risks of dramatic climate change, and the possibility of such catastrophes as a rise in sea level big enough to flood London and New York, he calculates that the range of possible outcomes lies somewhere between 5% and 20% of global output over the next century or two.
And the current relationship between oil prices and global economic output is not pretty.
Organic cotton currently accounts for only 0.1% of global cotton output, for a number of reasons.
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The Suez Canal is a major shipping canal with more than 2% of global oil output passing through it.
Additionally, the increasing global economic output will require a greater amount of energy.
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As of 2010, data centers used as much as 2.2 percent of global power output, up 56 percent over 2005.
Through the decades, the Landsat satellites have monitored drought conditions, global crop output, shrinking glaciers and the effects of urban sprawl.
According to Mr Schulz, if Japan, the world's third-largest economy, eventually joins the TPP, the group would account for nearly 40% of total global economic output.
In other words, just the dollar version of Libor sets the price for deals with a notional value equal to nine times global economic output or GDP.
Not even a worldwide depression that permanently lowers global economic output and emissions to, say, 1970 levels, would stop CO2 concentrations from rising over the remainder of the century.
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With electricity generation up 14% this year in China and 8% in India, and global steel output expanding by 8%, demand for thermal and metallurgical coal has been steadily growing.
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