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Percentage of children in Gaza who said last year that they “wanted to die”

: 49

Who believed they would soon die

: 96

Percentage of Ukrainians who said in 2022 that their country should keep fighting until it defeats Russia

: 73

Percentage who now favor negotiations to end the war as soon as possible

: 52

Average percentage by which the opening of a Walmart Supercenter causes nearby household incomes to decrease

: 6

Percentage increase over the past year in bankruptcy filings by U.S. retail stores

: 104

Estimated ratio of manufacturing robots to human factory workers in the United States

: 1:33

Percentage increase since 2000 in cases of adult diabetes in the United States

: 111

Portion of Americans who have experienced chronic pain

: 3/5

Factor by which black Americans are more likely than white Americans to suffer from psychosis or schizophrenia

: 2

Estimated percentage of Americans who are incarcerated, on parole, or on probation who have had a traumatic brain injury

: 45

Estimated number of legally owned gun silencers in the United States in 2011

: 285,000

Number of states that require annual active-shooter trainings for public elementary schools

: 34

For police departments

: 0

Percentage decrease since 2019 in the number of school-bus drivers in the United States

: 12

Portion of schools that reported having “major difficulties” transporting students in 2024

: 9/10

Chance that an applicant to a 4-year U.S. college will hire an independent admissions consultant this year

: 1 in 3

Percentage of non-white Americans who say that U.S. colleges do a very good or excellent job of educating students

: 56

Percentage increase in book sales in the United States over the past year

: 1

Estimated number of square miles of new drylands formed in the past three decades

: 2,700,000

Factor by which this exceeds the size of Texas

: 10

Percentage of U.S. solar-power capacity growth last year accounted for by Texas

: 31

Percentage by which Texas’s new solar-power capacity exceeded California’s last year

: 358

Factor by which annual deaths from exposure to cold weather have increased in the United States since 2000

: 3

Projected factor by which the population of homeless people over the age of 65 in U.S. cities will increase by 2030

: 3

Percentage increase since 2010 in divorces among Americans aged 65 and older

: 60

In cases of gonorrhea among that cohort

: 592

Percentage increase since 2021 in ADHD diagnoses among that cohort

: 67

Chance that an American believes they have undiagnosed ADHD

: 1 in 4

Chance that they do have ADHD

: 1 in 17

Portion of Americans who say that keeping their house clean is harder than working a full-time job

: 1/4

Percentage of events at nightclubs in New York City that went past 3 am in 2014

: 70

Average amount of time, in nanoseconds, by which each day on Earth is longer than the last

: 47
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