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How Much Is 1 Trillion Dollars

April 10, 2010, Submitted by: Ken

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Some incredible statistics of one trillion dollars to help visualize the reality of the enormous quantity that it represents.

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1 Trillion Dollars end-to-end

  • 370 Million miles!
  • 14,865 trips around the earth
  • 1,550 distances from the earth to the moon
  • 4 earth to sun lengths (this is mind boggling!)
  • 10 Billion strips of toilet paper (just about enough for every person on the planet to flush twice)
  • 1 Billion Eiffel Towers (enough for every country in the world to have 5 Million Eiffel Towers of their own)
  • 186 Million flights from San Francisco to London
  • 335 Million trips from Los Angeles to Boston
  • 167 Billion US Congressmen and Senators standing on each others heads

1 Trillion Dollars spread out flat

  • 111 Billion square feet
  • 2.5 Million acres
  • 4 Thousand square miles
  • 500 Million homes
  • 2.3 Million football fields covered with green
  • would almost cover the entire state of Connecticut
  • 196 3-lane freeways from Los Angeles to Boston
  • 588 lanes of freeway side-by-side from LA to Boston (1.3 Miles wide!)

1 Trillion Dollars stacked

  • 358 Million feet high
  • 67.9 Thousand miles high
  • 39.9 Million cubic feet
  • A football field that is filled and stacked with dollar bills 831 feet high (seriously, think about this one… )
  • 2,492 homes filled from floor to ceiling, every room, with dollar bills


If dollars grew on trees like leaves, one trillion dollars would require 5 Million full size mature money trees the size of oak trees,  in order to produce enough money leaves

These statistics represent 1 trillion dollars. The current US National debt is over 12 trillion dollars which makes these statistics even more mind boggling.

The next time you hear the ‘trillion’ word being thrown around as if it is the new normal, please remember these stats and the relevancy of the word.