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[ April 2019 ]

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Percentage change since 1975 in the portion of Americans who hold hunting licenses

: –38
April 2019 • Source: National Shooting Sports Foundation (Newtown, Conn.)/US Census Bureau (Suitland, Md.)

Number of states that allow roadkill to be salvaged for food

: 31
April 2019 • Source: PETA (Norfolk, Va.)

Number of the twenty least prosperous US congressional districts that are represented by Republicans

: 16
April 2019 • Source: Brookings Institution (Washington)

Of the twenty most prosperous districts that are represented by Democrats

: 20
April 2019 • Source: Brookings Institution (Washington)

Percentage of statewide elections in the Deep South won by Republicans since 2008

: 97
April 2019 • Source: Smart Politics (Minneapolis)

Number of new Confederate statues that have been constructed on public grounds since 2015

: 1
April 2019 • Source: Southern Poverty Law Center (Montgomery, Ala.)

Percentage of Southern white Americans who say the country must “protect and preserve its white European heritage”

: 30
April 2019 • Source: Scott Huffmon, Winthrop University (Rock Hill, S.C.)

Of Southern black Americans who do

: 28
April 2019 • Source: Scott Huffmon, Winthrop University (Rock Hill, S.C.)

Rank of Arabic among France’s most spoken languages

: 2
April 2019 • Source: Embassy of France in the United States (Washington)

Percentage of French students who study Arabic in secondary school

: 0.2
April 2019 • Source: French Ministry of National Education (Paris)

Net loss of foreign-language programs at US colleges and universities from 2009 to 2013

: 1
April 2019 • Source: Modern Language Association (NYC)

From 2013 to 2016

: 651
April 2019 • Source: Modern Language Association (NYC)

Percentage increase from 2012 to 2017 in the number of US college graduates who major in computer science

: 51
April 2019 • Source: US Department of Education

In the number of students who earn PhDs in computer science

: 17
April 2019 • Source: US Department of Education

Portion of 2017 computer science PhDs who pursued work in industry rather than academia

: 2/3
April 2019 • Source: Computing Research Association (Washington)

Factor by which graduate students are more likely to experience depression or anxiety than the general population

: 6
April 2019 • Source: Lindsay Bira, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio

Percentage of Indians with graduate educations who are unemployed

: 16
April 2019 • Source: Amit Basole, Azim Premji University (Bengaluru, India)

Of Indians who are illiterate

: 2
April 2019 • Source: Amit Basole, Azim Premji University (Bengaluru, India)

Percentage change in the value of the US market in adult fiction books from 2013 to 2017

: ?16
April 2019 • Source: Association of American Publishers (Washington)

In children’s and young-adult fiction books

: +11
April 2019 • Source: Association of American Publishers (Washington)

Factor by which Facebook users over 65 are more likely to share stories from fake news sites than users between 18 and 29

: 7
April 2019 • Source: Andrew Guess, Princeton University (N.J.)

Percentage of US adult Facebook users who are unaware the company categorizes them according to their interests

: 74
April 2019 • Source: Pew Research Center (Washington)

Of users who feel their assigned categories do not accurately describe them

: 27
April 2019 • Source: Pew Research Center (Washington)

Percentage of Americans born before 1946 who know someone who identifies with gender-neutral pronouns

: 7
April 2019 • Source: Pew Research Center (Washington)

Of Americans born after 1996

: 35
April 2019 • Source: Pew Research Center (Washington)

Number of minutes by which the average American man has more leisure time each day than the average woman

: 33
April 2019 • Source: US Bureau of Labor Statistics

Percentage of this extra time that men spend watching television

: 65
April 2019 • Source: US Bureau of Labor Statistics

Percentage of Americans who said global warming was personally important to them in the spring of 2018

: 63
April 2019 • Source: Yale Program on Climate Change Communication (New Haven, Conn.)

In the fall of 2018

: 72
April 2019 • Source: Yale Program on Climate Change Communication (New Haven, Conn.)

Percentage of US adults in 1978 who said that the country’s levels of consumption were “immoral”

: 65
April 2019 • Source: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research, Cornell University (Ithaca, N.Y.)

Who say so today

: 46
April 2019 • Source: YouGov (NYC)

Chance that an American CEO expected global economic growth to slow last year

: 1 in 50
April 2019 • Source: PricewaterhouseCoopers (NYC)

That a CEO expects global economic growth to slow this year

: 3 in 10
April 2019 • Source: PricewaterhouseCoopers (NYC)

Average age of an American with at least $25 million in 2014

: 58
April 2019 • Source: Spectrem Group (Lake Forest, Ill.)

In 2018

: 47
April 2019 • Source: Spectrem Group (Lake Forest, Ill.)

Percentage of US adults who say they would rather talk about their own death than money

: 57
April 2019 • Source: Age Wave (Emeryville, Calif.)

Percentage of Americans aged 18 to 34 who say they’d like to live forever

: 24
April 2019 • Source: YouGov

Of Americans over 55

: 13
April 2019 • Source: YouGov

Factor by which the rate of asteroids hitting Earth has increased over the past 290 million years

: 3
April 2019 • Source: Sara Mazrouei, University of Toronto
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