11/90Names on U.S. voter-registration rolls that represent people who have died or moved to another district: 20,000,000
5/89Estimated number of acres of residential lawn in the United States: 20,000,000
12/90Amount the U.S. government lent Brazil last year to build a highway through the Amazon rain forest: $20,000,000
6/91Value of the jewelry Madonna wore to the Academy Awards last March: $20,000,000
1/94Amount IBM will spend this year on parties for its top employees: $20,000,000
9/95Projected cost of providing Israel’s most remote West Bank settlements with roads bypassing Arab towns: $20,000,000
2/96Amount U.S. intelligence agencies have spent on psychics since 1972: $20,000,000
10/01Amount Romania plans to spend by 2003 to build a Count Dracula theme park: $20,000,000
8/02Amount an Ohio power company agreed to pay in April to purchase a town affected by its plant’s pollution: $20,000,000
2/03Estimated number of asteroids whose orbits Earth crosses each year: 20,000,000
12/06Amount a 2006 defense bill authorized for a daylong “celebration” of “success” in Iraq and Afghanistan: $20,000,000
Date on which the authorization was extended to 2007: 9/30/06
7/07Amount Uncle Ben’s rice spent this year to rebrand the “iconic character” of its fictional namesake: $20,000,000
Date on which he was “elevated” to “Uncle Ben, Chairman”: 3/30/07
2/00Estimated profit earned by New York State last year on collect calls made by prisoners: $21,000,000
1/06Number of manufacturing jobs that China has lost since 1996: 21,000,000
11/90Amount a cousin of Saudi Arabia’s King Fahd lost at casinos on the French Riviera in August: $21,640,000
4/94Value of the federal government’s stockpile of “medicinal” opium and morphine: $21,800,000
1/06Tons of hurricane-related waste still waiting to be hauled away in Louisiana: 22,000,000
Estimated percentage that were subsequently foamed to death: 100
2/85Number of homosexuals discharged from the U.S. military in 1983: 1,796
Amount the military spent recruiting and training the homosexuals it discharged: $22,500,000
12/92Fine levied on Rockwell International in June for environmental violations at the Rocky Flats weapons plant: $18,500,000
Performance bonuses the Department of Energy paid Rockwell for the last 3 years it operated the plant: $22,600,000
11/98Total amount that individuals have spent since 1994 on legal fees related to Starr’s investigation: $23,000,000
7/02Days after receiving it last year that a California dump lost its landmark status because it is a Superfund site: 20
Amount spent since 1989 to clean up the site: $23,000,000
8/87Total acres in Indiana: 23,158,400
12/07Estimated total annual revenue of panhandlers in the Las Vegas metropolitan area: $24,000,000
3/84Men under arms, worldwide: 25,000,000
8/87Acres of lawn in the United States: 25,000,000
10/92Estimated cost of a complete set of the 200 human body parts now available in artificial form: $25,000,000
1/01Estimated number of Americans who have ever belonged to a nonprofessional self-help group: 25,000,000
7/01Signing bonus that two oil companies paid Chad in April 2000 in order to join an oil-exploration project: $25,000,000
Amount of this bonus that Chad spent on weapons, violating an International Monetary Fund agreement: $4,500,000
7/03Estimated amount spent on lap dances in Las Vegas each year: $25,000,000
3/98Estimated percentage of drugs donated since 1992 to victims of the Bosnian war that were unusable: 50
Estimated amount that the drugs’ destruction would have cost the donors: $25,500,000
6/97Price Richard Nixon’s family proposes the U.S. government pay to release remaining Watergate documents: $26,000,000
2/04Estimated value of Senate majority leader Bill Frist’s household’s stake in HCA, his family’s hospital chain: $26,000,000
Months before Bush signed the Medicare bill in December that the New York Times last mentioned Frist’s holdings: 4
10/06Estimated amount that tourism will add to Rwanda’s economy next year: $26,000,000
4/07Amount by which the salary of Judge Judy exceeds the salaries of all nine Supreme Court justices combined: $26,000,000
8/86At the Port of Los Angeles: 26,437,500
9/85Number of Americans who commute from a suburb to a city to go to work: 13,900,000
Who commute from one suburb to another: 26,900,000
6/07Amount that Lockheed Martin has spent so far on Polecat, a new unmanned stealth aircraft: $27,000,000
Date on which the only prototype crashed when the self-destruct mode was accidentally activated: 12/18/06
12/95Amount insurers paid to victims of climate-related disasters each day during the 1980s, worldwide: $8,000,000
Amount paid such victims each day last year: $27,400,000
5/86Decimal places to which the value of pi has been calculated: 29,360,128
9/86Days spent on strike by British workers in 1979: 29,474,000
2/92Number of jobs George Bush promised in 1988 to create by the end of his second term as president: 30,000,000
2/97Amount that Western Village, a Japanese theme park, spent constructing an 80-foot replica of Mount Rushmore: $30,000,000
3/99Severance pay received by Viacom CEO Frank Biondi after he was fired by the company in 1996: $15,000,000
Severance pay Frank Biondi received last year after he was fired by Universal Pictures: $30,000,000
6/02Total amount the I.R.S. has paid Americans in improperly claimed slave reparations since 2000: $30,000,000
7/04Value of the “political risk insurance” that the U.S. government is providing two private investors in Iraq: $30,000,000
12/04Revenue generated by Halliburton under CEO Dick Cheney from business deals with Iraq under Saddam Hussein: $30,000,000
6/00Number of immigrants Japan would require in order to maintain its present workforce through the year 2050: 30,450,000
3/88Amount spent by Americans in 1986 in adoption fees for South Korean babies: $31,270,000
10/99Amount a clerical error has cost the British government in excess payments to the Queen since 1991: $31,500,000
4/03Amount the U.S. withheld from the U.N. Population Fund last year, citing links to forced abortions in China: $34,000,000
Months after the State Department had cleared the U.N. of such connections that the funds were withheld nonetheless: 2
1/98Projected cost of a poll Newt Gingrich proposed last fall to assess Americans’ views of the I.R.S.: $35,000,000
2/03Amount Democratic candidates raised last year from individuals who gave at least $1 million: $36,000,000
Amount Republican candidates raised last year from individuals who gave as much: $3,000,000
Amount that is currently emerging per day, in gallons: 36,900,000
7/00Number of Susan B. Anthony dollars the U.S. minted last year to meet new vending-machine demand: 37,000,000
4/97Value of surplus weapons and equipment one U.S. Air Force base lost track of between 1991 and 1994: $39,000,000
7/90Amount the U.S. government has paid Romania since 1980 for Soviet-made weapons for intelligence purposes: $40,000,000
Estimated amount of the payment that went directly into the Ceausescu family’s private bank accounts: $8,000,000
12/98Amount the U.S. Energy Department plans to spend by 2000 to keep Russian nuclear scientists employed: $40,000,000
9/01Amount the federal government paid Harvard researchers in the 1990s to help design Russian market reforms: $40,000,000
8/91Total number of tourists who visited Italy last year: 27,000,000
Total number who visited Disney theme parks in the United States: 41,000,000
4/01Gallons per day that the proposed drilling of Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is projected to yield: 42,000,000
12/93Number of residents of the former Soviet Union who live outside their ethnic homeland: 43,000,000
1/97Number by which Americans who watched last year’s Super Bowl exceeded those who voted in November: 43,000,000
12/95Amount the U.S. government budgeted this year for aid to U.S. workers laid off as a result of NAFTA: $43,400,000
Number of workers approved for such aid this year: 42,172
3/95Amount for which a Mississippi man attempted to sue “the Bible” last year, citing it as “oppressive hearsay”: $45,000,000
1/01Amount the U.S. Army plans to pay the entertainment industry this year to develop training videos for combat: $45,000,000
5/05Amount the Department of Homeland Security will spend this year directing research at U.S. universities: $45,000,000
2/89Amount Drexel Burnham spent copying documents requested by the SEC for its investigation: $46,000,000
10/03Estimated market value of the usable body parts of an adult human: $46,000,000
11/87Amount lawyers spent advertising on TV in 1986: $47,000,000
3/94Legal fees paid by the DOE since 1990 to defend its contractors in suits over radiation exposure: $47,000,000
4/01Tons of food suitable for human consumption wasted in the United States each year: 48,000,000
9/05Year by which Brazil’s government will have switched its computers entirely to open-source software: 2010
Amount they expect the switch will save each year: $48,000,000
4/08Amount that Rudy Giuliani’s campaign spent to win a single Republican delegate: $48,000,000
Amount it would have cost him to win the nomination at this rate, expressed as a percentage of Bill Gates’s net worth: 97
4/01Gallons by which daily U.S. oil consumption would drop if SUVs’ average fuel efficiency increased by 3 mpg: 49,000,000
8/06Minimum value of free, privately sponsored trips taken since 2000 by members of Congress and their staffs: $49,000,000
4/94Total value of the 96,000 refund checks returned to the I.R.S. as undeliverable last year: $50,000,000
1/99Estimated amount the Pentagon will spend this year on Viagra: $50,000,000
2/04Amount earmarked by the House last December to create an indoor rain forest in Iowa: $50,000,000
11/95Campaign funds raised as of June 1995 by the major Republican presidential candidates: $50,049,048
Estimated number of primaries that had occurred in 1992 by the time major Democratic candidates had raised this much: 41
4/84Americans who say they have quit smoking: 33,000,000
Americans who say they haven’t: 53,000,000
8/89Amount the federal government spent last year to develop a vaccine for AIDS: $53,925,000
2/89Total volume of the World Trade Center towers in New York City, in cubic feet: 54,000,000
6/85Potholes in the United States: 55,961,000
6/01Amount Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neill earned last year as CEO of Alcoa: $56,400,000
Rank of Alcoa among the worst U.S. polluters during O’Neill’s tenure, according to the National Wildlife Federation: 1
11/88Total amount paid in residuals to the 10,000 members of the Writers Guild last year: $57,037,100
Amount the Walt Disney Company paid its chairman in salary, bonuses, and stock options last year: $37,700,000
8/89Amount the Pentagon spent last year to develop defenses against biological weapons: $58,800,000
2/85American adults who read below the ninth-grade level: 60,000,000
1/89Estimated amount that Nicaraguans living in the United States send home to their families, each year: $60,000,000
4/92New tax revenue that will be generated this year as a result of ending the deduction for cosmetic surgery: $60,000,000
7/05Amount slated to be spent by 2007 to build a theme park in honor of Charles Dickens: £62,000,000
5/05Average amount the Bush Administration has spent per year on contracts with P.R. firms: $62,500,000
Average amount spent during the second term of the Clinton Administration: $32,000,000
7/03Total child support that went unpaid in Clark County, Nevada, in the last year: $63,100,000
12/04Estimated revenue generated by Halliburton last year through subsidiaries in Iran: $63,506,000
3/09Amount Italy spent last year to bail out its Parmigiano Reggiano and Grana Padano cheese industries: $65,000,000
10/88Value of the unclaimed beverage-container deposits in New York State last year: $66,000,000
5/93Square feet of office space in Manhattan that is currently vacant: 66,000,000
4/89Total amount of funds left over from last year’s House campaigns: $67,000,000
8/87Average earnings of the ten most prosperous Wall Street professionals in 1986: $68,800,000
10/97Amount the Agency for International Development spent on its new computer system: $71,000,000
4/03Amount budgeted last year for the EPA’s Leaking Underground Storage Tank Program: $72,000,000
1/98Average amount the U.S. spends on intelligence each day: $72,876,712
9/03Price of the oil-field supplies sold to Iraq by two Halliburton subsidiaries during Cheney’s tenure: $73,000,000
12/85Pieces of mail that end up at the dead letter office each year: 75,100,000
5/93Amount the federal government spent each day last year on “intelligence”: $79,000,000
6/87Estimated 1986 earnings of the CBS television network: $80,000,000
4/89Estimated number of people worldwide who hear Muzak each day: 80,000,000
Estimated increase, since last year, in the amount spent on U.N. peacekeeping forces, worldwide: $81,000,000
7/90Acres of solar panels it would take to fulfill all human energy needs: 83,000,000
Percentage of the earth’s landmass this represents: 0.2
12/91Estimated number of cookies that will be left out for Santa Claus this Christmas Eve: 84,000,000
8/90Federal funds to be spent this year on lead-lined trucks to house the administration during nuclear attack: $58,000,000
Amount the President proposes to spend on this program next year: $85,000,000
9/04Funds allocated for Iraq’s water programs to be spent on U.S. embassy operating costs: $85,500,000
1/95Sets of fingerprints in the FBI’s files that belong to people who have never been convicted of a crime: 86,442,642
7/08Amount that the IRS has spent since 2006 on an outsourced program to collect unpaid taxes: $87,000,000
Amount the contractors have collected during that time: $50,000,000
8/04Minimum number of U.S. firms under contract in Iraq that have paid federal fines, settlements, or restitution since 2000: 7
1/89Amount Nicaragua earns each year from coffee exports: $90,000,000
10/95Average amount Americans spent on lottery tickets each day last year: $93,000,000
6/01Amount Iraq pledged in January to aid “poor Americans”: $93,000,000
5/98Amount by which Oxford Health Plans’ losses in 1997’s last quarter exceed its total profits since 1993: $96,200,000
5/99Value of the U.S. military equipment earmarked last year to aid Iraqi anti-Hussein groups: $97,000,000
Amount that has been used: 0
4/92Sales of Tupperware in Japan last year: $100,000,000
9/92Estimated total number of acts of sexual intercourse among human beings each day, worldwide: 100,000,000
10/02Minimum annual U.S. spending on searching for missing soldiers: $100,000,000
7/03Minimum number of Latin American residents whose personal data the U.S. government has bought since 2001: 100,000,000
9/08Estimated annual sales-tax revenue that California receives each year from medical-marijuana sales: $100,000,000
8/96Annual amount by which Wisconsin’s new mandatory workfare plan will outspend its old welfare budget: $102,000,000
10/04Aid that U.S. leaflets dropped on Fallujah in July threatened to freeze if insurgent attacks continued: $102,000,000
Number of insurgent attacks in Fallujah in the week before and after the leafletting, respectively: 21, 36
3/88Amount spent by South Korea in 1986 for American wastepaper: $103,539,420
10/87Additional hours Americans will spend on paperwork in 1987 as a result of the 1986 Tax Reform Act: 105,000,000
6/03Amount of new U.S. military aid for Colombia inserted into the Iraq war bill in March: $105,000,000
4/98Amount that U.S. health-care professionals owe in defaulted student loans: $107,000,000
Rank of chiropractors among those most likely to default: 1
3/90Amount Americans spent last year on toy guns: $108,800,000
6/87Estimated 1986 earnings of Wheel of Fortune: $110,000,000
11/08Total value of federal small-business contracts obtained by Blackwater between 2005 and 2007: $110,000,000
9/05Amount allocated for investigating health-care fraud in 2003 that the FBI cannot account for: $114,000,000
8/02Amount the Bush Administration paid this year to buy back oil and gas drilling leases off Florida’s coast: $115,000,000
Factor by which this exceeds the price that the Reagan Administration received for selling them: 7
Months before the Florida gubernatorial election this year that President Bush announced the buyback: 5
3/89Amount Cuba earned last year from Western tourists: $117,000,000
11/86Number of Americans who have not been to a dentist in over a year: 122,000,000
8/89Estimated amount Americans spent last year to kill household roaches: $124,000,000
3/08Minimum number of U.S. personal-data records compromised in security breaches last year: 126,000,000
5/08Current annual deficit of the International Monetary Fund: $140,000,000
9/98Minimum estimated total public spending on investigations by independent counsels since 1978: $144,000,000
11/90Cost of maintaining the U.S. military force in the Persian Gulf region, per day: $32,000,000
Cost of implementing the savings and loan bailout, per day: $148,000,000
11/99Federal anti-poverty funds granted Texas since 1996 that have not been spent: $149,000,000
2/99Amount the family of Osama bin Laden was paid by Saudi Arabia to construct U.S. barracks there this year: $150,000,000
7/06Estimated number of hot dogs that will be eaten in the United States over the Fourth of July weekend: 150,000,000
7/08Estimated total value of investments in major U.S. military contractors owned by members of Congress: $150,000,000
12/84Total number of recordings of “White Christmas” that have been sold: 150,431,669
6/86Amount the Reagan Administration has budgeted for military bands in 1987: $154,200,000
Amount it has budgeted for the National Endowment for the Arts: $144,900,000
6/02Barrels of oil required to raise U.S. cattle for beef each year: 155,000,000
1/88Number of workdays lost each year because of headaches: 157,000,000
7/88Value of the arms that Warsaw Pact members have bought from NATO countries since 1982: $35,000,000
Value of the arms that NATO members have bought from Warsaw Pact countries since 1982: $165,000,000
10/08Amount that the Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae loan companies have spent on lobbying since 1998: $174,000,000
3/89Amount the Pentagon will spend this year on new chemical weapons: $60,400,000
Amount the Pentagon will spend this year to destroy obsolete chemical weapons: $179,500,000
9/00Estimated number of people who live in a “state of concern”: 180,000,000
1/97Amount the U.S. spends on road construction and maintenance each day: $180,429,842
6/85Hours spent on strike by Italians in 1979: 192,700,000
9/84Estimated value of Israeli arms sales to Latin American nations in 1982: $200,000,000
7/87Amount added to South Africa’s annual export earnings for every $10 increase in the price of gold: $200,000,000
5/89U.S. sales of licensed Roger Rabbit merchandise since the movie’s release last June: $200,000,000
10/90Estimated number of M&M’s sold each day in the United States: 200,000,000
11/03Minimum number of facts and rules with which a computer must be programmed to have common sense: 200,000,000
8/93Gallons of Kool-AID consumed by Americans each summer: 204,000,000
11/99Amount by which the President ‘s ten-year defense budget exceeds that of House Democrats: $158,000,000
Amount by which it exceeds that of House Republicans: $206,000,000
10/07Minimum amount that religious groups received in congressional earmarks between 2003 and 2006: $209,000,000
Amount such groups received during the previous fourteen years: $107,000,000
1/09Minimum amount that religious groups received in congressional earmarks from 2003 to 2006: $209,000,000
Amount such groups received during the previous fourteen years: $107,000,000
3/99Average hourly outflow from Brazil ‘s currency reserves on January 13 and 14, after the real was devalued: $214,000,000
12/90Estimated amount a $100,000 Individual Reanimation Account will yield in 2090: $219,976,130
1/91Combined value of the mortgages given by East Harlem bank branches to local residents in 1989: $2,413,000
Combined value of the deposits in East Harlem bank branches in 1989: $221,000,000
1/88Number of bedrooms in the United States: 236,800,000
7/92Change, since 1988, in U.S. sales of adult diapers: +$245,000,000
7/88Projected total cost of the Love Canal cleanup: $250,000,000
8/91Amount pledged by the Tobacco Institute last year to a campaign to discourage smoking by minors: $10,000,000
Estimated profit U.S, tobacco companies earned last year from sales of tobacco products to minors: $250,000,000
11/03Cotton-subsidy reparations proposed by four African countries at the WTO’s Cancún meeting this fall: $250,000,000
3/99Size of the business loan given Amazon.com last April after 11 consecutive months without a profit: $275,000,000
10/94Gallons of hamburger grease sold by McDonald’s since 1955: 281,250,000
12/84Amount spent by the U.S. government on advertising in 1983: $228,857,200
Amount spent by Coca-Cola: $282,150,000
8/90Number of automobiles that have been discarded in the United States since 1946: 288,324,898
10/90Barrels of oil the United States imports from Iraq and Kuwait annually: 290,000,000
Barrels of oil that could be saved by raising U.S. auto-efficiency standards by 2.75 miles per gallon: 290,000,000
8/95Number of Susan B. Anthony dollars held by the federal government: 291,000,000
Cost of storing them, per year: $30,000
6/96Change since 1970 in tons of clothing and footwear disposed of each year in U.S. landfills or incinerators: +293,000,000
10/84Value of claims filed this year with Lloyd’s of London for satellite launch failures: $300,000,000
7/86Amount the United States spent in 1985 on radio broadcasts to Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union: $146,559,000
Estimated amount the Soviet Union spent trying to jam those broadcasts: $300,000,000
7/88Total cost of eradicating smallpox, worldwide: $300,000,000
8/88Amount Israel has spent since December on defense forces in the West Bank and Gaza Strip: $300,000,000
5/90Value of the year-end bonuses that Drexel Burnham Lambert gave its employees in December and January: $270,000,000
Estimated amount the company requested in bank loans before it filed for bankruptcy in February: $300,000,000
6/90Number of biodegradable golf tees ordered this year from Peat “T” of Edmonton, Canada: 300,000,000
8/91Estimated amount Japanese companies donated to American charities last year: $300,000,000
10/91Amount the Pentagon will save each year in military expenditures as a direct result of the START treaty: $300,000,000
Additional amount the Pentagon will spend each year on treaty verification and compliance: $300,000,000
10/99Estimated number of illiterates in India’s population as it reached one billion last August: 300,000,000
11/03Amount by which federal subsidies to U.S. cotton farmers last crop-year exceeded 2001’s U.S. cotton sales: $300,000,000
1/04Minimum amount boxer Mike Tyson earned in the nine years before filing for bankruptcy last August: $300,000,000
2/09Profit that the federal government made in 1983 on stock obtained in its 1979 bailout of Chrysler: $311,000,000
5/97Amount the World Bank will finish spending this year on an expansion of its Washington headquarters: $314,000,000