Facts about Russia (2)

Following up on my first post of Russian facts. Here are some more facts...

• The "current account balance" (as defined by CIA W.F.B.) of the United States is $-738,600,000,000 with a ranking of 164th in the world (last). [1]
  
• The "current account balance" of the Russian Federation is $76,600,000,000 with a ranking of 5th in the world. [1]
  
• Russia has the world's greatest reserves of mineral and energy resources. [2]
  
• Russia produces one-fifth of the worlds diamonds. [7]
  
• There was 418,500 American casualties in World War 2 (0.32% of the total population). [5]
  
• There was 23,100,000 Soviet Union Casualties in World War 2 (13.7% of the total population). [5]
  
• My fiancé's grandfather told us that of his generation, only 1 in 100 Russians (or Soviets?) survived World War II. We made a toast to him as a survivor.
  
• The literacy rate in Russia is 99.4%. [6]
  
• The literacy rate in the United States is 99.0. [6]
  
• Russia has more post-secondary education graduates than any other country in Europe. [3]
  
• Moscow Russia is the most expensive city to live in the world. [8]
  
• Russia is in the process of building the Russia Tower in Moscow which, upon completion, will be the tallest building in Europe and the second tallest in the World. [9]
  
• There are more billionaires living in Moscow Russia than any other city in the world. [4]
  
• Only America has more billionaires than Russia (469 vs. 87). [4]
  

• 1 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_language
  
• 2 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia
  
• 3 https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2187rank.html
  
• 4 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_population
  
• 5 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_literacy_rate
  
• 6 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamond
  
• 7 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow
  
• 8 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia_Tower
  
• 9 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Russian_billionaires