Everything you need to know about Donald Trump's cabinet, in 5 charts

There are more billionaires than black people in Trump’s new cabinet

Donald Trump with Vice President-elect Mike Pence and his Defence Secretary, James Mattis (Getty)

In a campaign characterised by catchphrases and slogans, Mr Trump repeatedly told voters that he was going to “drain the swamp” in Washington. It was a slippery phrase, and he variously used it to attack the political elite, the media, corporate lobbyists and Wall Street, a catch-all term for the establishment who prospered while ordinary Americans had suffered.

I will Make Our Government Honest Again -- believe me. But first, I'm going to have to #DrainTheSwamp in DC. https://t.co/m1lMAQPnIb

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 18, 2016

Here’s how the cabinet stacks up, in numbers, so far.

(In the interests of making a direct comparison as possible, we compared only the 20 cabinet-level positions Trump has named so far, and only compared the first set of appointments that each president made in office.)