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BIG DATA BY NUMBERS
40 % projected growth in global data generated per year versus 5 per cent growth in global IT spending
€250bn potential annual value to Europe’s public sector administration – more than the GDP of Greece
235 terabytes of data collected by the US Library of Congress in April 2011
£600bn potential annual consumer surplus from using personal location data globally
$300bn potential annual value to US health care – more than double the total annual Spanish health care spend
30bn pieces of data shared on Facebook every month