Portrait of America (63 photos)

A look at American culture through the dry figures of statistics. Each image shows the actual number of any things. That you could actually imagine their number.



32000 Barbie - a number of dummies shows how much has been done plastic surgery breast augmentation in 2006 in the United States



410,000 paper cups with hot drinks used in the US every 15 minutes







2 million plastic bottles used in the US every 5 minutes







200,000 packs of cigarettes equal to the number of smokers in the US who die from smoking every 6 months

8000000 toothpicks - equal to the number of trees that are cut down in the US each month to make paper for mail order catalogs



11000 rekativnyh tracks equal to the number of commercial flights made in the US every 8 hours







426,000 cell phones released into the United States every day







1140000 packaging bags used in the US every hour







106000 Aluminum cans are used in the US every 3 minutes







2300000 folded prison uniforms - that is how much Americans were imprisoned in 2005









65,000 cigarettes - so much teenagers aged 18 start smoking every month







9000000 cubes - that so many children in the US live without health insurance, and thus without medical assistance











24,000 posters GMC Yukon Denali, equal to the number of sales of sports cars in 2004





213000 pills Vicodin, equal to the number of people who applied for an ambulance in critical condition due to abuse of painkillers every year







29,569 pistols, equal to the number of deaths associated with the weapon in the US in 2004.







60,000 plastic bags are used in the United States every 5 seconds.







30,000 or stacks of paper sheets 15 000 000, which are used in offices US every 5 minutes





3,600,000 plugs on each nipple tires for sports car sold in the US in 2004







125,000 packages of $ 100 bills (12, $ 5 million) - as much is spent on the war in Iraq, the government each hour







170, 000 Energizer batteries - so much is produced in the United States every 15 minutes









38,000 shipping containers, the number of containers handled through US ports every twelve hours.





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