Mobile phones worldwide
Total cell phone subscribers, 2010: 5 billion
Total mobile broadband subscribers, 2010: 1 billion
Total mobile broadband subscribers, 2009: 600 million
Source: International Telecommunications Union
As more and more people are using cell phones for communications, banking and even Internet access, we will need to modify websites and evangelistic material to be presentable on smaller screens.
Daily status updates
Twitter, total status updates per day, 2010: 50 million
Twitter, total status updates per month, 2010: ~1 billion
Twitter.com, total visitors: 75 million per month
Total status updates per day is a more reliable measure of Twitter’s growth than visits to the website, since many people access Twitter through third-party clients like Tweetdeck.
Source: Techcrunch.com
Biggest energy consumers
USA, energy consumed, 2009: 2.18 billion tons of oil equivalent
USA, % decline from 2008: 5% decline
China, energy consumed, 2009: 2.13 billion tons of oil equivalent
China, % increase from 2008: 8.7%
China’s energy use has more than doubled since 1999
America’s energy use has declined since 1999
America still uses 4x more energy per capita than China
Source: Economist.com
Globalization of crime
Trafficking of humans for sexual exploitation in Europe, p.a.: $3 billion
Children involved in prostitution in India: 1.2 million
Smuggling of migrant workers to US/Europe, p.a.: $7 billion
Europe’s heroin market, p.a.: $20 billion
Counterfeit goods detected at Europe’s borders, p.a.: $10 billion+
Source: New York Times, UN “Globalization of Crime” report, ASSIST News
Resource links for statistics (HT:Brigada.org)
http://www.globalissues.org/
http://www.who.int/research/en/ – for health indicators
http://www.imf.org/external/data.htm – for economics
http://data.un.org/ – for general statistics
http://data.worldbank.org/- for more on economics
Cost of BP Oil Spill:
Total cost of BP oil spill reaches $3.1 billion
Maternal Mortality:
@ONECampaign: Every year more than 300,000 women die in pregnancy. Let’s change that: http://bit.ly/bcOo4f #G8
