40 percent of Americans between the ages of 26 and 40 have at least one tattoo.

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Over 35% of Indians are illiterate.

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The average income per person in China is around $3,500 and in India $1,000.

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In America, 30% of teenagers send more than 100 texts a day.

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Around 15 to 20 % of gay men in America marry heterosexual women.

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Life expectancy at birth is 79.1 in Britain and 77.8 in America.

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American teenagers send 3,146 text messages a month, which translates to more than 10 messages every hour of the month that they are not sleeping or in school. Even the under 12 segment send 1,146 text messages per month, which is almost four text messages per waking hour that they are not at school.

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In America more than 10,000 baby-boomers will become eligible for Social Security and Medicare every day for the next two decades.

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Women earn almost 60% of university degrees in America and Europe.

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In the European Union, women have filled 6 million of the 8 million new jobs created since 2000.

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The number of dollar billionaires in China actually increased in the past year from 101 to 130.

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Around 200 million people now live outside their homelands, comprising some 3% of the global population.

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

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

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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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About 3% of the world’s population lives abroad: a share that has hardly grown in recent years, despite a jump in absolute numbers.

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87 percent of all Americans can be uniquely identified using only three bits of information: ZIP code, birthdate, and sex.

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Currently immigrants account for about 10% of the population of most west European countries, and up to 30% in some of Europe’s great cities.

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