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To put that in context, the entire global worth of recorded music last year was just under $15bn.
In an unpublished report, it also values its wider economic impact at £25.9bn and predicts a global worth of £1.7tn by the end of the decade.
The future might be in even larger drones – flown beyond the line of sight and over longer distances – a sector whose global worth is tipped to be more than £100bn, but which is not without controversy.
It is also far lower than the rain forest's global worth (which, while seemingly priceless, does have some estimates attached to it, in the range of $1,700 per hectare per year).
The following correction was printed in the Guardian's Corrections and clarifications column, Tuesday 2 November 2010 A reader expressed doubts about the provenance of a figure for the estimated global worth of the pornography industry, mentioned in a feature as $96bn£61bnbn) in 2006.
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Since her creation in 1974, Hello Kitty has become a global figure worth an estimated $7 billion to Sanrio.
In 2004, the world's fleets carried around 90% of total global exports worth $8.9 trillion, largely unnoticed.
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