Percentage of children in Gaza who said last year that they “wanted to die”
: 49Who believed they would soon die
: 96Percentage of Ukrainians who said in 2022 that their country should keep fighting until it defeats Russia
: 73Percentage who now favor negotiations to end the war as soon as possible
: 52Average percentage by which the opening of a Walmart Supercenter causes nearby household incomes to decrease
: 6Percentage increase over the past year in bankruptcy filings by U.S. retail stores
: 104Estimated ratio of manufacturing robots to human factory workers in the United States
: 1:33In South Korea
: 1:10Percentage increase since 2000 in cases of adult diabetes in the United States
: 111In China
: 524Portion of Americans who have experienced chronic pain
: 3/5Factor by which black Americans are more likely than white Americans to suffer from psychosis or schizophrenia
: 2Estimated percentage of Americans who are incarcerated, on parole, or on probation who have had a traumatic brain injury
: 45Estimated number of legally owned gun silencers in the United States in 2011
: 285,000In 2024
: 5,000,000Number of states that require annual active-shooter trainings for public elementary schools
: 34For police departments
: 0Percentage decrease since 2019 in the number of school-bus drivers in the United States
: 12Portion of schools that reported having “major difficulties” transporting students in 2024
: 9/10Chance that an applicant to a 4-year U.S. college will hire an independent admissions consultant this year
: 1 in 3Percentage of non-white Americans who say that U.S. colleges do a very good or excellent job of educating students
: 56Of white Americans who say so
: 31Percentage increase in book sales in the United States over the past year
: 1In Bible sales
: 22Estimated number of square miles of new drylands formed in the past three decades
: 2,700,000Factor by which this exceeds the size of Texas
: 10Percentage of U.S. solar-power capacity growth last year accounted for by Texas
: 31Percentage by which Texas’s new solar-power capacity exceeded California’s last year
: 358Factor by which annual deaths from exposure to cold weather have increased in the United States since 2000
: 3Projected factor by which the population of homeless people over the age of 65 in U.S. cities will increase by 2030
: 3Percentage increase since 2010 in divorces among Americans aged 65 and older
: 60In cases of gonorrhea among that cohort
: 592Percentage increase since 2021 in ADHD diagnoses among that cohort
: 67Chance that an American believes they have undiagnosed ADHD
: 1 in 4Chance that they do have ADHD
: 1 in 17Portion of Americans who say that keeping their house clean is harder than working a full-time job
: 1/4Percentage of events at nightclubs in New York City that went past 3 am in 2014
: 70That do so today
: 53Average amount of time, in nanoseconds, by which each day on Earth is longer than the last
: 47