11/85Estimated percentage of boys born in the United States in 1984 who were circumcised: 80

Edward A. Wallerstein (New York City)

    Percentage of boys born in Britain who were: 0.4

Edward A. Wallerstein (New York City)

11/85U.S. spending on health care in 1960, expressed as a percentage of the gross national product: 5.3

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

    Today: 10.6

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

11/85Percentage of Americans’ disposable income spent on insurance premiums: 11.1

National Insurance Consumer Organization (Alexandria, Va.)

11/85Percentage of South Korea’s gross national product accounted for by export earnings: 33

First Boston Corporation (New York City)

11/85Percentage of Japan’s gross national product accounted for by export earnings: 17

Japan External Trade Center (New York City)

11/85Amount Latin American countries earned on their exports in 1984: $125,000,000,000

International Monetary Fund (Washington, D.C.)

    Amount they paid in principal and interest on their debts: $49,000,000,000

International Monetary Fund (Washington, D.C.)

11/85Percentage of the 90,000 Latin Americans who have “disappeared” since 1963 who were Guatemalan: 39

Latin American Federation of Families of Disappeared Prisoners (Caracas, Venezuela)

11/85Wholesale price of an AK-47: $230

Defense and Foreign Affairs magazine (Washington, D.C.)

11/85Price of a fully equipped “terrorist-proof” Mercedes 500 at Washington’s Counter Spy Shop: $208,000

Counter Spy Shop (Washington, D.C.)

11/85Number of white South African males who failed to report for military service in 1984: 1,596

The Progressive (Madison, Wis.)

    In the first six months of 1985: 7,589

The Progressive (Madison, Wis.)

11/85Estimated number of Vietnam draft resisters still living in Canada: 10,000

Jack Colhoun, former editor of AMEX-Canada

11/85Portion of American households made up of a single person in 1955: 1/10

U.S. Census Bureau

    Today: 1/4

U.S. Census Bureau

11/85Average number of jokes Henny Youngman delivers in a 40-minute monologue: 245

Henny Youngman

11/85Percentage of men who say they are happier since their divorce or separation: 58

USA Today Poll

    Percentage of women who say this: 85

USA Today Poll

11/85Percentage increase, since 1980, in the number of lawyers who specialize in divorce cases: 100

Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers (Chicago)

11/85Percentage of federal district court judges appointed by President Carter who are millionaires: 4

Professor Sheldon Goldman (University of Massachusetts at Amherst)

    Percentage appointed by President Reagan who are: 22.5

Professor Sheldon Goldman (University of Massachusetts at Amherst)

11/85Percentage of all federal judges appointed by President Reagan who graduated from Ivy League law schools: 10

Professor Sheldon Goldman (University of Massachusetts at Amherst)

11/85Percentage of Fortune 500 companies that tested employees and job applicants for illegal drug use in 1982: 10

Benzinger, DuPont & Associates (Chicago)

    Percentage that test today: 25

Benzinger, DuPont & Associates (Chicago)

11/85Pairs of sunglasses owned by Jack Nicholson: 15

Jack Nicholson

11/85Number of Fabergé Imperial eggs owned by Malcolm Forbes: 11

Forbes Magazine Galleries (New York City)

    By the Kremlin: 10

Sotheby’s (New York City)

11/85Weekly sales per square foot near the cash registers in the average supermarket: $22.80

Food Marketing Institute (Washington, D.C.)

    Per square foot elsewhere in the store: $7.76

Food Marketing Institute (Washington, D.C.)

11/85Cavities the average 15-year-old had in 1970: 12

National Institutes of Health (Bethesda, Md.)

    Cavities the average 15-year-old has today: 8

National Institutes of Health (Bethesda, Md.)

11/85Percentage of Iowans who say they would like to be reincarnated as themselves: 64

Des Moines Register & Tribune Company

11/85Percentage of trees in New Hampshire whose leaves turned red this fall: 13

Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests (Concord, N.H.)

    Percentage whose leaves turned red 35 years ago: 9

Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests (Concord, N.H.)

11/85Greatest pumpkin ever grown (in pounds): 612

World Pumpkin Federation (Collins, N.Y.)

11/85Rank of Richard Nixon masks among the best-selling Halloween masks bought by adults: 1

Little Jack Horner Joke and Magic Shop (Boston)