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

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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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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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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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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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In Britain, the proportion of homes that receive multi-channel television has risen from 31% to 89% in the past 10 years.

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In 2008, America's net imports of oil and gas amounted to $416 billion or 60% of its budget deficit.

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Only around 20% of Americans have been on a cruise.

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In 2008 the median size of a new home in the US shrank for the first time in 13 years.

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Pay-television subscriptions grew by more than 2 million in America in 2009.

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Since 2005, North American box-office receipts have risen by 20%.

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In 2008, 87% of newspaper revenues in America came from advertising. In Japan, the proportion was 35%.

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Spending on DVDs in America fell from $20 billion in 2006 to $16 billion in 2009.

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At the turn of the 20th century, U.S. households spent about 2 percent of their income on transportation. That figure is now around 18 percent and rising.

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