By 2020 the internet will add $3.8 trillion (£2.5 trillion) to the global economy, exceeding the gross domestic product of Germany.

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Apple has just 2.2 per cent of the world cell-phone market, but even that means it sold twenty-five million iPhones in 2009.

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The average Hollywood film (with a budget of $32 million) leads to 141 jobs directly, from caterers to make-up artists, and another 425 jobs indirectly.

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Indian consumers buy 700 million illegal DVDs every year - costing the Indian film industry $959 million.

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More than 2 million flights pass over the New York City every year.

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Ferrari produced around 7,000 cars in 2009.

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The average profitability of companies using the internet has increased by 2.7%.

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About 8 per cent of all Google queries are name searches.

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For the week ending March 13th 2010, Facebook accounted for 7.1% of the America's web traffic, compared with Google’s 7.0% - the first time Facebook has had a weekly lead.

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Over 13.4 million took a cruise in 2009, up from 12.6 million in 2007.

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The total EU budget is less than 2% of the Union's GDP.

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22% of American college graduates now major in business compared with only 2% in history and 4% in English.

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Walmart operates 8,400 stores worldwide, has more then 2 million employees and handles over 200 million customer transactions each week.

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In 2009, US consumer credit card debt saw a sustained drop for the first time in decades, falling for 10 straight months as the recession took hold.

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668,000 dotcom sites are registered every month.

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In 2010, about 120 million compact cameras and 11 million DSLRs will be sold worldwide.

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Each week 98% of adults in Britain use a BBC service.

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'Diploma mills' in the US sell roughly 200,000 fake degrees a year to customers around the globe.

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Nearly 2/3rds of the film selections by Netflix's customers come from referrals made by computer.

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The national telecom company in China adds more than 700,000 broadband customers each month.

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The amount of reading people do, previously in decline because of television, has almost tripled since 1986, thanks to all the text on the internet.

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Traffic from legal online video sites like Hulu, iPlayer and Youtube has surged from 13% of all internet traffic in 2008 to 27% in 2009.

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Google responds to around 35,000 search queries every second.

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In 2004, the average American spent $770.95 annually on services like cable television, Internet connectivity and video games. By 2008, that number rose to $903, outstripping inflation. By the end of 2010, it is expected to have grown to $997.07.

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America's share of world exports in the early 1950s was 18% - a figure that has since dropped to 8%.

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In the early 1980s, shares traded on the NYSE changed hands every 3 years on average. Currently the average tenure is down to 10 months.

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Legal music downloads have compensated for around 40% of the fall in CD sales in recent years in America and Britain, while in France they have made up for only 19% of the drop.

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Hummer drivers pick up 5 times as many traffic tickets as the average motorist.

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The average Wall Street employee took home nearly $124,000 on top of his base salary in 2009 — a quarter more than in 2008 but still less than the average bonus in 2006, when the figure peaked at a staggering $191,360 per head.

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U2 made $109 million from touring, record sales and other royalties in 2009 - making more money than any other music act in the US. Michael Jackson was the top earner from CD and ringtone royalties, but only made it to number 20 on the overall list - highlighting the importance of touring to a star's pay packet.

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Currently, the average life of a web page is somewhere between 44 and 77 days.

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