Portion of Americans who considered the summer of 2020 to be average or above average
: 1/2
Who considered the summer of 2021 to be bad or the “worst summer ever”
: 1/4
Chance that an American planning to move in the next year blames natural disasters or extreme temperatures
: 1 in 2
Rank of The Villages, a Florida retirement community, among the fastest-growing U.S. metropolitan areas
: 1
Amount West Virginia will pay prospective residents to move to the state
: $12,000
Rank of New Mexico among states whose residents googled the phrase “is Santa real” most often this year
: 1
Average weight, in pounds, of a professional Santa
: 245
Number of pounds by which the average weight of an adult male in the United States has increased since 1988
: 18.5
Factor by which the rate of body mass index growth for U.S. children has increased during the pandemic
: 2
Portion of teen girls who say that Instagram has aggravated their body image issues
: 1/3
Number of TikTok videos removed from the platform last year for violating its “minor safety” policies
: 55,401,107
Ratio of school psychologists to K–12 students in the United States
: 1 : 1,211
Number by which U.S. college enrollment has declined over the past five years
: 1,500,000
Percentage of this decline that can be attributed to male students
: 71
Portion of adults worldwide who have experienced increased stress in the past year
: 7/10
Who describe themselves as “emotionally exhausted”
: 1/2
Percentage of U.S. executives who think their workplace culture has improved since the start of the pandemic
: 72
Of U.S. human resources professionals who think so
: 21
Portion of U.S. adults who have not participated in a video call since the pandemic began
: 1/5
Who say digital interactions are just as good as in-person ones
: 1/5
Percentage of U.S. adults taking virtual exercise classes who plan to continue as gyms reopen
: 86
Percentage of U.S. prisoners released in 2008 who were arrested again in the following decade
: 82
Portion of those arrests that were for drug-related offenses
: 1/2
Amount, in grams, of marijuana the Drug Enforcement Administration plans to produce this year
: 2,000,000
Percentage increase in the amount of psilocybin the agency plans to produce
: 4,900
Minimum number of Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies who have been invited to join intradepartmental gangs
: 254
Percentage increase last year in the number of deaths by overdose in the United States
: 30
Rank of 2020 among years with the highest number of recorded deaths by overdose
: 1
Percentage change over the past two decades in the number of U.S. estates paying estate taxes
: -96
Portion of millionaires who worry about leaving “too much” money to their heirs
: 2/3
Average amount of outstanding student debt owed by U.S. public school teachers
: $56,900
Average salary of a U.S. public school teacher
: $65,090
Percentage of U.S. families with health insurance that have medical debt
: 16
Median amount of debt held by those families
: $2,000
Average cost of a fake COVID-19 vaccination card on the messaging app Telegram
: $250
Minimum number of COVID-19 vaccine doses that have been made available to U.S. zoo animals
: 11,000
Percentage change since 2016 in the wild reindeer population
: -13
Estimated year by which the woolly mammoth could become de-extinct
: 2026
