LMVH is the world's largest luxury-goods group with more than 50 brands and revenues of €17.2 billion in 2008.

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Currently 439 nuclear reactors are operating in the world - with 40 new ones being built.

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In 1990, citizens made up 86% of Singapore's 3 million people. Today, the share is 64% of 5 million odd.

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The iPhone App Store boasts 85,000 applications and a total of more than 2 billion downloads.

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Chinese household savings reached almost 25% of GDP in 2008, helping finance investment of an unprecedented 40% of GDP.

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California gets only 1% of its electricity from coal.

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Britain produces 700 regional cheeses, more even than France.

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Foreigners currently hold around half of US Treasury debt - up from 18% in 1990.

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In France, 5.2 million workers, or 2% of those with jobs, are employed by the public sector.

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Although only a 10th of social gamers actually buy virtual goods, they earn game operators $28 million a month.

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The average Westerner produces over 500 kg of municipal waste a year.

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Developing countries make more than half of the world’s electronics. China alone churns out more than a quarter, compared with just 3% in 1995.

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A non-celebrity pornographic actress might have charged $1,000 for a 'straight boy-girl' scene before the recession, but gets $800 or less now. Men averaged $500 for a straight scene in 2007, they are now lucky to get $300.

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More Coca-Cola products are consumed per person in Mexico than any other country, and the company has 70% of the nation's soft drinks market.

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Norway has the second-highest income per person in the world, over $100,000 in 2008.

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There are currently 21 generic internet domains in addition to the 280 country suffixes (such as .uk, .in, etc.)

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98% of Indians have never flown.

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Currently China accounts for only 0.5% of Cadbury's worldwide sales.

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Every 10 minutes of commuting cuts your social involvement by a 10th - so 10 percent fewer family dinners, club meetings and other forms of interaction.

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There are about 45,000 flights that take off in the US every single day. That number is set to rise to 61,000 by 2016.

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Lego is the world's largest manufacturer of tyres - making upwards of 300 million tiny rubber tyres every year.

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India has the highest density of retail outlets of any country in the world – more than 15 million compared with 900,000 in America where the market is 13 times bigger (in value terms.)

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36% of the world's newspapers are tabloid.

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Less than 10% of all patents filed have any economic worth.

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Eating a packet of crisps a day is equivalent to drinking five litres of cooking oil a year.

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China currently spends 12% of GDP on infrastructure - compared with Britain's 5% at the peak of the railway mania in 1840s.

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The annual cost of the Royal family to the UK is just 66p per person.

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More than 12,000 laptops are reported missing every week at US airports.

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A 1% increase in income per person leads to a 1.4% increase in the numbers of passengers travelling by air.

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Infosys, India's most celebrated IT company collects only 1.2% of its income from the domestic market.

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