5/86Percentage of Costa Ricans who say that Nicaragua interferes “too much” in Costa Rica’s internal affairs: 40

U.S. Information Agency (Washington, D.C.)/Interdisciplinary Consultants on Development (San José, Costa Rica)

    Percentage who say that the United States interferes too much: 50

U.S. Information Agency (Washington, D.C.)/Interdisciplinary Consultants on Development (San José, Costa Rica)

5/86Percentage change in U.S. imports from Caribbean nations in 1985: -22

U.S. Department of Commerce

5/86Portion of the coffee exported by Nicaragua that is produced by private growers: 2/3

Ministry of Agricultural Development and Agrarian Reform (Managua)

5/86Number of banks in the West that are owned by the Soviet Union: 6

Wall Street Journal

5/86Portion of the Soviet Union’s urban population that shares a kitchen and bathroom with another family: 1/5

Murray Feshbach (Sovietologist-in-residence, NATO, Brussels)

5/86Estimated number of Americans who live on communes: 40,000

Benjamin Zablocki (Rutgers University)

5/86Number of Americans who served in Vietnam and were declared missing in action: 2,436

U.S. Department of Defense

    Number of Americans who served in World War II and were declared missing in action: 78,751

U.S. Department of Defense

5/86Number of federal commissions appointed since 1949 to study the Pentagon: 35

Washington Post

5/86Number of U.S. university scientists who have pledged to refuse Star Wars research funds: 3,100

Michael Weissman (University of Illinois at Urbana)

5/86Percentage of college freshmen who are enrolled in a remedial math class: 25

Commission on Professionals in Science and Technology (Washington, D.C.)

5/86Decimal places to which the value of pi has been calculated: 29,360,128

Jonathan M. Borwein and Peter B. Borwein (Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia)

5/86Chances that a female graduate student in psychology has had sex with one of her professors: 1 in 6

American Psychologist (Washington, DC.)

5/86Chances that a white, college-educated 25-year-old woman will marry: 1 in 2

Neil G. Bennett, Patricia H. Craig (Yale University), and David E. Bloom (Harvard University)

    Chances that a white, college-educated 35-year-old woman will marry: 1 in 18

Neil G. Bennett, Patricia H. Craig (Yale University), and David E. Bloom (Harvard University)

5/86Percentage of male executives who become fathers by age 40: 90

A Lesser Life: The Myth of Women’s Liberation in America, by Sylvia Ann Hewlett (William Morrow)

5/86Percentage of women between the ages of 20 and 24 in 1965 who were infertile: 4

National Center for Health Statistics (Hyattsville, Md.)

    Percentage of women between the ages of 20 and 24 who are infertile today: 11

National Center for Health Statistics (Hyattsville, Md.)

5/86Rank of Alaska and Utah, among all states, in birth rate: 1,2

U.S. Census Bureau

5/86Number of European countries whose population is declining: 18

Population Reference Bureau (Washington, D.C.)

5/86Percentage of abortions in the United States that are performed on Catholic women: 29

Alan Guttmacher Institute (New York City) and National Abortion Federation (Washington, D.C.)

5/86Number of times the average man sees his parents each year: 47

Family Circle

    The average woman: 62

Family Circle

5/86Percentage of Americans over 60 who live with a younger relative: 6.3

U.S. Census Bureau

    Percentage of Japanese over 60 who do: 70

Prime minister’s office (Tokyo)

5/86Percentage increase in the number of middle-class black families in the United States since 1970: 17

National Urban League (New York City)

5/86Percentage increase in marriages between blacks and whites since 1977: 33

U.S. Census Bureau

5/86Portion of black mayors who head cities that don’t have a black majority: 1/3

Joint Center for Political Studies (Washington, D.C.)

5/86Estimated amount spent in all U.S. political campaigns in 1984: $1,800,000,000

Citizens’ Research Foundation (Los Angeles)

5/86Number of votes Donald Duck received in the 1985 Swedish parliamentary elections: 291

United Press International

5/86Mary Lou Retton’s “Performer Q” popularity rating in 1984: 53

Marketing Evaluations (Port Washington, N.Y.)

    Today: 39

Marketing Evaluations (Port Washington, N.Y.)

5/86“Product categories” for which the 1988 Olympic organizers are selling official sponsorships: 44

ISL Marketing A.G. (New York City)

5/86Corporate sponsors of the recent dog-sled expedition to the North Pole: 65

Steger International Polar Expedition (Ely, Minn.)

5/86Weight of the average male bear in Alaska (in pounds): 250

International Association for Bear Research and Management (Calgary, Alberta)

    In Pennsylvania: 487

International Association for Bear Research and Management (Calgary, Alberta)

5/86Life expectancy of an adult mayfly (in days): 1

American Museum of Natural History (New York City)

5/86Lifespan of a sidewalk tree in New York City (in years): 7

New York City Tree Consortium