Thursday, December 01, 2005
The average japanese woman can live to be 84. The average botswanan will reach just 39.
A third of the world's obese live in the developing world.
Every cow in the european union is subsidised by $2.50 a day. That's more than what 75 percent of africans have to live on.
There are 44 million child labourers in India.
Ppl in industrialised countries eat between six and seven kilograms of food additives every year.
Tiger woods earns $78 million a year. He is paid $55,000 a day to wear nike caps; a thai worker is paid an average of $4 a day to make them.
Cars kill 2 ppl every minute.
In kenya, bribery payments make up a third of the average household budget.
The world's illegal drug trade is worth $400 billion - about the same as the world's legal pharmaceutical industry.
A third of americans believe aliens have landed on earth.
Black men born in the US today stand a one in three chance of going to jail.
A third of the world's population is at war.
The world's oil reserves could be exhausted by 2040.
82 percent of the world's smokers live in developing countries.
More than 70 percent of the world's population have never heard a dial tone.
Ten languages die out every year.
More ppl die each year from suicide than in all the world's armed conflicts.
Every week, an average of 88 children are expelled from american schools for bringing a gun to class.
America spends $10 billion on pornography every year - the same amount it spends on foreign aid.
In 2003, the US spent $396 billion on its military This is 33 times the combined military spending of the seven 'rogue states'.