Visualise how much an amount of money is worth (by seeing how much you could buy with it).
US$15.5bn can buy all of the following:
Value of Vedanta Resources Plc
Market capitalization of VEDANTA RESOURCES PLC03 May 2010£6.89bn (US$11.0bn)Information from London Stock ExchangeA day in a theme park for everybody in United Kingdom
Buying 61.6m people a day ticket to Alton Towers£1.82bn (US$2.90bn)4 times the GDP of Kiribati
2008US$85.8m × 4 = US$548mfrom World Bank50 Jonathan Ross
Yearly Salary2006£6.00m (US$9.58m) × 50 = £300m (US$479m)Information from BBCand
3 Royal Families
Yearly cost of British Royal Family2005£37.0m (US$59.1m) × 3 = £111m (US$177m)