Index Archive

Portion of Americans who have ever evacuated their homes because of severe weather

: 1/5

Who say they could definitely afford to stay elsewhere if they had to evacuate

: 1/3

Number of countries whose carbon emissions exceeded those caused by Canada’s wildfires last year

: 3

Percentage of emergency calls to U.S. fire departments that were about an actual fire in 1980

: 28

In 2023

: 4

Estimated number of Florida police officers who have been fired by another Florida police department

: 1,100

Percentage of Americans who say that it is safe to walk alone at night in their neighborhood

: 72

Of Salvadorans

: 88

Portion of Americans who are very confident that the food in grocery stores is safe to eat

: 1/4

Percentage increase since 2020 in the number of food recalls in the United States

: 20

Percentage of Americans who stockpile nonperishable foods

: 55

Who would stockpile even more if they had space

: 42

Percentage of U.S. public school teachers in 2018 who said that the stress and disappointment of their jobs were “worth it”

: 72

Who say so today

: 42

Percentage of Goldman Sachs junior analysts and associates who work more than 90 hours per week

: 63

Average number of hours that they slept per night last year

: 4.9

Average score, on a 1–10 scale, that they gave their physical health before starting at Goldman Sachs

: 8.1

Average score they gave while working at the company

: 4.2

Portion of U.S. households that owned mutual-fund shares in 1980

: 1/20

That owns mutual-fund shares today

: 1/2

Chance that an actively managed investment fund outperformed the S&P 500 last year

: 1 in 5

Minimum portion of the S&P 500’s market cap accounted for by companies currently under federal antitrust investigation

: 1/3

Average amount that white American women are paid for selling their eggs to fertility clinics

: $11,000

That black American women are paid

: $7,000

Percentage by which legislation proposed by a U.S. governor in a major speech is more likely to pass if the governor is a woman

: 20

Minimum number of deaths that antibiotic resistance is projected to cause globally by 2050

: 39,000,000

Minimum number of deaths by euthanasia in the Netherlands last year

: 9,068

Portion of all deaths in the Netherlands that this represented

: 1/20

Percentage change since 2002 in the alcohol consumption of the average person in Ireland

: –30

Of the average American

: +14

Estimated amount stored on unused gift cards in the United States

: $27,000,000,000

Percentage change since 2021 in the portion of Americans who want to receive books for the holidays

: −13

Who want to receive personal-care and beauty products

: +25

Percentage increase since 2019 in the number of breast-augmentation surgeries performed in United States

: 6

In the number of cosmetic breast-reduction surgeries

: 64

Portion of Americans aged 18–27 who wish that Instagram had never been invented

: 1/3

Amount spent by Meta last year on Mark Zuckerberg’s personal security

: $23,400,000

Portion of American women who say they would probably or definitely clone themselves if given the opportunity

: 1/10

Of American men

: 1/4

Harper’s Index

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