37% of American homes have Digital Video Recorders.

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By some estimates, roughly 5% of all petrol burned in Europe's cars is consumed by air-conditioning units.

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In 2009, the legal gambling market totalled $335 billion globally. Online gambling contributed just over $25 billion to the tally.

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China now exports every six hours as much as it did in the whole of 1978.

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The pharmaceutical industry spends about one-third of its $20 billion direct-to-consumer advertising budget on just 10 drugs.

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95 percent of the orange juice concentrate sold at retail in the U.S. is packed in Florida.

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In 2009, Facebook’s traffic grew by 66% and Twitter’s by 47%.

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The celebrity perfume market is estimated to be worth £255 million in the UK alone.

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China's internet population has reached 404 million, up from 384 million at the end of 2009, and the number of people accessing the internet with mobile phones there has reached 233 million.

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More than 8 million visits were made to news websites every minute, on the night Barack Obama won the US presidential election. On the first day of the 2010 Football World Cup, there were 12 million visits per minute.

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Wal-Mart handles more than 1 million customer tranactions every hour.

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In China over 5 million people graduate every year and in India about 3 million, respectively four times and three times the numbers a decade ago.

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In 2001, 28% of students who studied abroad did so at American universities. By 2008, that figure had shrunk to 21%, though the absolute number of globally mobile students grew by 50% over the period.

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75% of fast-food companies' revenues in Europe comes from people eating in the restaurant compared with half in America.

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Apple recently announced that its App Store now offers 225,000 apps which collectively have been downloaded 5 billion times.

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The number of members of LinkedIn with the title vice-president grew 426% faster than the membership of the site as a whole in 2005-09.

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In 2009, Italians made only 66 non-cash transactions per person compared with about 170 in the euro zone.

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In America, McDonald's ramped up spending on advertising by more than 7% in 2009 even as other cut back.

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Energy companies produce 85 million new barrels of oil daily.

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The number of humanitarian workers worldwide has grown at a rate of 6% for the past 10 years, reaching a current total of more than 20,000.

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In 2009, revenues from mobile apps amounted to nearly $10 billion.

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The global market for luxury goods shrank by as much as 13% in 2009.

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