Estimated amount spent on 2020 campaigns for the U.S. House of Representatives, Senate, and White House
: $14,000,000,000
Factor by which this exceeds the previous record for an election year
: 2
Estimated amount of global tax revenue lost each year to companies that incorporate in tax havens
: $245,000,000,000
To individuals who store their assets in tax havens
: $182,000,000,000
Percentage of Americans in a relationship who keep some of their money secret from their partner
: 37
Average amount of money those Americans keep secret
: $2,006
Estimated total value of federal COVID-19 loans that were paid out to fraudulent or ineligible applicants
: $71,400,000,000
Minimum number of countries that have placed restrictions on news organizations during the pandemic
: 91
Of countries where activists have reported police violence as a component of the pandemic response
: 59
Chance that an American knew someone who died of COVID-19 last year
: 1 in 2
Minimum percentage by which the U.S. birth rate is expected to fall this year
: 8
Percentage of American travelers who do not support opening their own communities to visitors
: 37
Who hesitate to travel for fear that they would not be welcome at their destinations
: 25
Percentage of Americans who plan to use their cars more often after the pandemic ends than they did before it began
: 41
Who plan to use them less often
: 10
Estimated percentage of greenhouse-gas emissions that were covered by a carbon tax or cap-and-trade system last year
: 22
Area, in square kilometers, of the hole in the ozone layer produced by the Australian wildfires last year
: 800,000
Percentage by which the smoke plumes from those fires decreased the amount of sunlight reaching Australia
: 90
Estimated amount of carbon, in metric tons, produced each year by the sending and receiving of emails
: 12,000,000
By the sending and receiving of text messages
: 7,000,000
Estimated percentage of greenhouse-gas emissions that are caused by the health care industry
: 4.6
Portion of those emissions for which the United States is responsible
: 1/4
Portion of U.S. health care facilities that regularly test their employees for COVID-19
: 1/2
Of U.S. companies overall that do
: 1/6
Factor by which U.S. health care workers have requested leave more often since the onset of the pandemic
: 4
Percentage of U.S. doctors who have closed their practices since then
: 8
Portion of U.S. doctors and nurse clinicians who have retired early or plan to do so because of the pandemic
: 1/5
Percentage of U.S. workers over 55 who plan to delay their retirement because of the pandemic
: 13
Percentage of senior White House jobs that turned over during the Trump presidency
: 91
Percentage of those jobs that did so more than once
: 39
Chance that an outgoing senior White House employee was fired or pressured into resigning
: 1 in 4
Portion of U.S. remote employees who say they have been working harder than ever
: 7/10
Who say they have not felt as appreciated by their employer since they began working remotely
: 1/2
Percentage decrease, in the first half of 2020, in direct foreign investment in the United States
: 61
Percentage by which the American economy is expected to contract this year
: 4.3
By which the Chinese economy is expected to expand
: 1.9
Minimum number of documentaries that the Chinese government has produced about Wuhan’s response to the coronavirus
: 21
