Each views the world relative to his own surroundings.
STOCKMARKETS Finland has the most valuable stockmarket in the world, relative to its national output.
Last year Kuwait piled up the biggest surplus with the rest of the world relative to its national income.
"Pete may have $2 billion, but in terms of impact on the world relative to the positions he has held, it's been small.
The increasingly wretched economic situation in most of the Muslim world, relative not only to the West but also to the tiger economies of East Asia, fuels these frustrations.
Sierra Leone is estimated to have the highest number of maternal deaths in the world relative to its population, with 1,360 women dying per 100,000 live births this year.
With a circulation of more than two hundred and fifty thousand, Yedioth may be the biggest newspaper in the world relative to population outside of North Korea.
Ireland's export sector – one of the largest in the world relative to the size of the economy – picked up a lot of the slack.
Having had one of the biggest current-account deficits in the world relative to GDP, Latvia now has one of the biggest surpluses (see chart).
By the mid-1980s Zambia had become one of the most indebted nations in the world relative to its gross domestic product (GDP).
