In Algeria, 70% of lawyers and 60% of judges are women.
Murder is the leading cause of death among pregnant women in the US.
There are now 3.3 billion mobile phone accounts globally, a figure roughly equal to half the world’s population.
Sharks kill around 10 people each year. Falling coconuts kill approximately 150.
It is estimated that financial services companies hold around 30% of all office space in London.
There is expected to be a 36% increase in the number of people aged 75+ in Japan between 2005 and 2015.
During the same period the number of people aged under 5 years-of-age is predicted to decline by 13%.
The Self-storage industry in America has grown more than 40-fold since the 1960s and now consists of over a billion square-feet of empty (and not so empty) space.
In value terms the industry is now considerably larger than the US music industry.
According to Gartner, 80% of Internet users will have avatars or digital replicas of themselves by the year 2011.
Approximately 2,600 people die and 330,000 people are seriously injured every year in the US due to talking and texting on cell-phones whilst driving.
24% of Russians expect to see a clash with the US in the near future compared with only 4% of Chinese.
Around 80% of all news available on the Internet originates in newspapers.
9.5 million people now have financial assets of at least US$1 million.
The US Department of Defence is aiming to replace 33% of armed vehicles with robots by the year 2015.
Almost 10% of British homes no longer have a landline telephone.
14,000 new cars take to the road in China every single day.
Sales of CD music titles sold in paper jackets (i.e. reminiscent of vinyl records) rose by 100% in Japan in 2005.
90% of all scientists and engineers with PhDs will live in Asia by 2010.
Of the 120,000 blogs created daily,50% are about the same subject - the writer.
By the year 2015, West Africa will become the world’s largest source of crude oil outside of the Middle East.
A report by the Kaiser Family Foundation says that 53% of US students (grades 7-12) consumed another form of media whilst ‘watching’ television.
The fine for possessing a hamster in Vietnam is US$1,900.
1% of all adults in the US are in jail.
Families in the UK spend GB £14,800 per year on household bills. Five years ago the figure was £8,000.
There are now more pensioners aged > sixty (11.2 million) than children aged < sixteen (11.1 million) in the UK.
Pets outnumber people 1.5:1 in Australia
The latest Justin Timberlake Album is available in 115 formats.
There was a 400% rise in Chinese patent applications between 1995 and 2005.
The number of breast-augmentation surgeries performed on female teens rose by 55% in the US between 2006 and 2007.
50% of New York University students said they would “permanently forfeit” the right to vote in exchange for a one-off payment of US$1million.
Between 1991 and 2005 deaths directly related to alcohol nearly doubled in the UK.
80% of UK wealth is held by people aged 55+
Around 100 million people are thought to have died prematurely during the 20th Century due to cigarette smoking.
In 2005, 40% of UK weddings involved someone that was getting married for at least the second time.
2.9 million rooms have been ‘lost’ in British homes since 2003 due to open-plan home conversions.
Consumer spending by those aged 65-74 in the UK is predicted to increase by 40% by 2017.
In 2003, the minimum wage in the UK was £4.20 per hour. In the US it was $5.15. In China it was 18 pence (29 cents) and it India it was 7 pence (11 cents).
74% of Britons think that ‘green taxes’ are a con.
The number of non-food antibacterial products launched globally grew from less than 200 in 2003 to 1,610 in 2006 according to Mintel’s New Products Database.
US $750 billion is now managed globally under Islamic or Sharia principles.
In 2020 the dominant family type in Australia will be couples without children.
Smoking kills 25% of all men in the developing world.
Sales of the five major painkilling medicines grew by 88% in the US between 1997-2005.
China has 21% of the world’s population but only 1.8% of the world’s oil supply.
Ford’s 2007 car fleet averaged 18.7 mpg. A 1908 Ford Model T could reach 25mpg.
The UK’s DNA Database contains information on 40% of black men in Britain.
According to the General Social Survey (US) there has been a 300% increase in the number of Americans that have absolutely nobody to talk to about their problems.
50% of men in the UK say that they would give up sex for six months in return for a 50-inch plasma television.
However, only 17% would give up the internet in exchange for the television.
40% of the world’s 923,000 industrial robots reside in Japan.
Between 1980-2000 membership of political parties in the West fell by almost 50%
It is predicted that the retail space devoted to recorded music in the US will have fallen by 30% during 2008.
90% of men that have walked on the moon were once Boy Scouts.
85% of primary school teachers in the UK are female and 39% of boys aged 8-11 have no male teachers whatsoever.
Fewer than 5% of Americans take public transport to work.
In 1970, 80% of British children walked to school. By 2007 the figure had fallen to 9%.
86% of the world’s population will live in emerging markets by the year 2050
In 2007, only 6% of American men wore a tie to work every day. In 2002 the figure was 10%.
Oil majors control less than 10 percent of world resources of gas and oil, against 70 percent in the 1970s.
There are 26 million businesses in the US and 20 million of these have no employees.
35% of US small-business owners are dyslexics.
In 1992 girls aged 14 drank 3.8 units (roughly 2/3 of a bottle) of wine a week. By 2004 the figure had risen to 9.7 units per week.
Britons spend 20% of their annual income on leisure, up from 9% in 1957
To make a cotton T-Shirt requires 27,000 litres of water
42% of the world’s population now lives under double-digit inflation.
There were 8,987 new cases of MRSA in the US in 2005, resulting in 1,598 deaths. The total number of deaths since 2005 stands at 18,650,
which compares to 17,011 deaths from AIDS.
Cement production accounts for 5% of global carbon dioxide emissions.
81,000 people died on Chinese roads during 2007
14% of American dogs suffer from separation anxiety.
According to the University of East Anglia (UK) the chance of finding intelligent life on another planet over the next 4 billion years is 0.01%
More than 85% of the information held by organizations is unstructured.
According to a 2007 UNICEF study, the UK is ranked last of 27 surveyed countries when it comes to child well being.
In China there are 228 million Internet users compared to 217 million in the US.
55% of women in America die their hair.
12.6% of US residents (37.6 million people) are illegal immigrants.
31% of people living in London were born outside of the UK.
62% of people living in Britain aged 18-24 say they believe in horoscopes versus 38% who say they believe in the Bible.
10% of Americans believe that the Internet brings them closer to God versus 6% that say it makes them feel more distant.
The average cost to create a cancer drug is US$1.04 billion. The FDAs approval rate for cancer drugs between 1990-2007 was 8%.
2.5 million US children are on prescribed antipsychotic drugs.
In 2004, the richest 1% of the American population took home US$1.35 trillion in pay.
This is more than the total national take-home pay in Canada, Italy or France.
52% of Korean infants aged 3-5 regularly use the Internet, spending on average 4 hours every week online.
77 billion corporate emails are sent every working day. By 2012 the number is expected to be around 150 billion.
5% of Soviet officials under President Gorbachev had security service backgrounds. Under Putin the figure was 78%.
70% of people in the UK have no ties whatsoever to any local group or association.
There were 411,000 books published in the US in 2007
