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Interesting Facts, Population Statistics, Death Numbers, Fun Data, Random Info |
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How significant is this moment? Allow me to provide you with some incredible statistics:
The World is 4.55 billion years old.
In the year 10,000 B.C., there were only 5 million people on the planet. By 8,000 B.C., this figure had risen to simply 8 million.
Around the year 1900 there were 1.6 Billion people on earth. NOW there is a total population around the globe at just under 6.8 BILLION. In just over A century the population has QUADRUPLED. (Strangely enough, the current global population of chickens is all about comparable to the present number of people on the planet.)
TODAY ALONE, the populace of the world increases by over 200,000 people. Today, China increases in population by over 24,000 people, and India by over 49,000 people. Russia is among the few countries with a population that's actually DECREASING on a daily basis, by almost 2,000 people every day.
Before the year 2050, India will surpass China because the largest country in the world, estimated to hit over 1.5 BILLION people. The populace of India has almost TRIPLED from 1950 to 2000 (It is expected to increase by 50% in the next 4 decades.)
Source: The planet Factbook, 2008
funny facts
Interesting Facts around the globe from the last ONE MINUTE in your life! I call this section - "During the first minute of reading this:"
During the very first minute of your time reading this, an estimated 255 babies were born.
During exactly the same minute, approximately 107 people died (almost 6% of the people who died in that minute, died of the fully preventable ailment - hunger). This is an overage of 147 people, increasing the global population by around 80 MILLION each year.
In just One minute: 141 MILLION emails were sent, and 775,000 searches were completed on Google.com.
Google has 200M searches per day
There were 360 million internet users in 2000. This season, you will find almost SEVEN BILLION
In just 1 minute: 43,000 A lot of Carbon dioxide (CO2) were emitted in to the world, 56,674 barrels of oil were pumped from the earth (1 barrel equals 42 gallons)
The 23 million residents of the US state of Texas emit more co2 compared to entire population of sub-Saharan Africa, that is 720 million people.
Additional sources: Committee to Protect Journalists, The Inter-parliamentary Union, UNICEF
In just 1 minute: Over 10 MILLION cigarettes were smoked
Every day, the average person inhales about 20,000 liters of air.
Smoking deaths - Around 5.4 million deaths a year worldwide (1,205 daily US only)
In just 1 minute: $220M was allocated to illegal drugs.
In just 1 minute: 10 people died due to water pollution (Water pollution accounts for the death of 14,000 per day)
In just One minute: 34 people were identified as having cancer
Over 12 million new cancer cases were diagnosed and 7.6 million cancer deaths (about 20,000 cancer deaths a day) occurred worldwide in 2007
In just 1 minute: 2 people died inside a road accident
An estimated 1.17 million deaths occur each year worldwide due to road accidents
OUR WORLD and POPULATION STATISTICS
New York City is way from the largest city in the world, actually in 16th place at just under 8.5 million people, but after Shenzhen: China, Tokyo: Japan, Jakarta: Indonesia, Seoul: Columbia, and Instanbul: Turkey.
In 2006, 2.6 billion people, or 40% of the world's population, lived on under $2 each day, with 1 billion of them surviving around the margins of subsistence with less than $1 each day.
The largest passenger airport IN THE WORLD is really Atlanta, at over 89 million passengers in 2007 and over 90 million in 2008. The second largest passenger airport on the planet is Chicago O'Hare at over 76 million passengers in 2007 only 69 million in 2008. In fact, america oversees four from the seven largest airports on the planet, and 16 of the 30 largest airports in the world. (source: Airport Council International)
funny facts
The port of Singapore received almost 28 million containers in 2007, making it the biggest container port on the planet. Shanghai, China was in second place at 26 million. The Los Angeles and Long Beach, California container ports COMBINED equaled just over 15 million containers in 2007.
A quite interesting resource detailing those activities of our world within this moment -
Enough of the heavy stuff - for several FUN FACTS:
In Los Angeles, you will find fewer people than you will find automobiles.
Most lipstick contains fish scales.
Yes, the current moment is extremely special...in just one minute the entire world can change right in front of your eyes. Take a moment to breathe and ensure your alternatives support the world by which we live and our greater communities. |
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11/29/2011 11:24 AM to 11/11/2020 12:24 PM |
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