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Hello and welcome to another edition of The Crunch!

In this week’s newsletter we have charts on football, soccer and the beautiful game.

Oh, and we also have charts about Elon Musk and SpaceX, Australian house prices, ride-share bikes and how to get really nice grass. For playing football on.

But first … how the US is shutting out climate refugees

Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown is largely targeting people from countries most vulnerable to displacement from climate-driven disasters, Guardian analysis shows.

As the administration pushes policies to boost planet-heating fossil fuels, millions of people are being forced to flee their countries due to storms, floods and droughts, which are worsened by the climate crisis.

Of the 39 countries from which the Trump administration has fully or partly restricted entry to the US, 22 are ranked within the most vulnerable quarter of nations in the world to climate impacts, according to analysis of data from the Notre Dame Global Adaptation Initiative, which assesses how prone jurisdictions are to the climate crisis.

Four charts from the fortnight

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1. Elon Musk is worth a lot …

To paraphrase Douglas Adams – Musk’s fortune is big. Really big. It’s difficult to comprehend just how much $1tn is, because it’s such an abstract concept and the closest things to compare it to are other huge amounts which are similarly hard to imagine.

Here the ABC gives it a crack by comparing Musk’s fortune to that of other rich people, government spending, the GDP of Taiwan and some other things:

Mona Chalabi has also had a go at putting Musk’s wealth in context with a variety of things, like a piece of Toblerone.

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2. … and that is because of SpaceX

This piece from Reuters takes a look at the SpaceX IPO and how it has smashed initial public offering records.

However, probably the most interesting part of this isn’t the “number goes up” rhetoric, but how SpaceX sizes up to other companies.

While it has a comparable market capitalisation to other tech companies, its revenue is much lower.

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3. Even with a small drop in prices, housing in Australia is still hugely expensive

There’s been a lot written about the Australian housing market – and the fact that prices are down due to increases in interest rates.

However, even if there is a small dip in the market, as our columnist Greg Jericho shows, prices have a long way to go before homes start to become more affordable:

The one stat that really stood out from Greg’s column was this – an average home would cost $592,500 now, instead of $1.1m, if prices were the same relative to income as before John Howard introduced the 50% capital gains tax discount.

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4. How much public space do ride-share bikes take up?

The People’s Republic of Couch has a very pointed interactive graphic doing some back-of-the-envelope maths on how much public space ride-share bikes could be taking up in Sydney:

Personally speaking, after my (Nick’s) recent secondment in London, I think we definitely need the designated bike parking areas and geofencing that they use over there.

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Off the Charts

It’s another great Reuters piece with awesome illustrations! If you had a dollar for every time this had happened in our newsletter you’d be almost as rich as Elon Musk.

This excellent visual feature goes into the making of a world-class, World Cup pitch, complete with cross-section illustrations of the playing surface:

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