2/07Average number of times an adult worldwide has sex each year, according to self-reporting in polls: 103

Durex (Manchester, England)

    Average in Japan, the lowest of forty-one countries surveyed: 45

Durex (Manchester, England)

8/92Percentage change, since 1970, in beer production in China, per capita: +372

United States Feed Grain Council (Washington)/U.S. Census Bureau (Hyattsville, Md.)

9/05Number of Danish graduate students who last December released a copyright-free recipe for an “open-source beer”: 15

Superflex (Copenhagen)

    Number of times the website has been accessed so far: 133,000

Superflex (Copenhagen)

4/85Number of beer cans manufactured since they were introduced in 1935: 610,000,000,000

Can Manufacturers Institute (Washington, D.C.)

10/00Average number of people living per square mile in the Gaza Strip, New Jersey, and Japan, respectively: 8,000, 1,100, 828

Prof. James W. Hughes, Rutgers, The State University (New Brunswick, N.J.)/Central Intelligence Agency (Washington)/Harper’s research