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Fifty interesting facts
1. The average life expectancy of Japanese women is 84 years; while female life expectancy in Botswana is only 39 years old.
2. For black Americans a chance to end up in prison is one in three, whereas their white fellow citizens for this probability is one to seventeen.
3. Every fifth inhabitant of the Earth (1.25 billion people) are malnourished.
4. Among the 15-year-olds about half of the UK have already tried drugs, and nearly a quarter - regularly smoke cigarettes.
5. Children living in poor families are three times more likely to suffer illness, leading to mental retardation than children from wealthy families.
6. 81% of death sentences, executions worldwide in 2002, accounted for three countries: China, Iran and the United States.
7. Department Stores UK know about your customers more than the government of its population. They use the so-called "loyalty cards" to determine your interests and incomes.
8. Subsidies for the maintenance of one cow, allocated by the European Union, make up 1 pound 40 pence a day - three-quarters of Africans forced to exist on a smaller amount.
9. Same-sex sexual relations are prohibited by law in more than 70 countries. Nine, including Afghanistan, Iran and Saudi Arabia, are punishable by death.
10. Every hour, the British housewife emit an amount of debris that it would be enough to fill all the space of the Royal Albert Hall.
11. Today in the world there are 27 million slaves.
12. One third of the world's population is at war. In 2002, the world has seen 37 military conflicts with the participation of 30 countries (the total population of 2.29 billion people).
13. The United Kingdom is the second largest among developed countries after the United States in the number of pregnancies among adolescents. For 1000 women in childbirth account for 30.8 teenagers. Teenage mothers are twice more likely to be in poverty.
14. Every fifth inhabitant of the planet is forced to exist on the amount is less than 50 pence per day.
15. In India, 44 million laborers - children, some of them work 16 hours a day.
16. People in the industrialized world consumes in a year from six to seven kilograms of food additives. Sandwich with ham can contain up to 13 E-units.
17. Tiger Woods - a famous golfer and highest paid athlete, earning 44 million pounds a year, including 30, 000 pounds a day that is a cap with the word Nike, for the production of which Thai workers get 2.20 pounds a day. < br />
18. Every week from US schools exclude an average of 88 pupils for carrying weapons.
19. Every hour one person is killed or maimed by mines.
20. In the world there are at least 300,000 political prisoners are often kept in appalling conditions, and sometimes - subjected to torture only for being peacefully express their own beliefs.
21. Every minute by a car killed one person.
22. The United States owed the United Nations contributions amounting to $ 1 billion, while every 23 hours to the American military program spent a similar amount.
23. In 2001, during the general election in the UK was attended by 26 million people. The number of viewers who have submitted their votes for the first transmission of the participants 'Pop Idol', was more than 32 million people.
24. In Kenya, the cost of bribes make up one-third of a household budget.
25. Drug trafficking in the world reaches the sum of 225 billion pounds - the same number of sales for the pharmaceuticals industry of the world.
26. Upon delivery of the aircraft kiwi fruit from New Zealand to the United Kingdom, the volume of gas released into the atmosphere, contributing to the emergence of 'greenhouse effect', five times the weight of the fetus.
27. It is known that in more than 150 countries, torture.
28. Each year, Americans spend more on pornography 5, 6 billion pounds - while their government is spending the same amount on foreign aid.
29. On average, every Englishman fixed video cameras 300 times a day. We controlled most nation in the world with our 30 million CCTV cameras (10% of the world's total).
30. In 2001, 13, 2 million Americans and 2, 5 million British suffered plastic surgery.
31. In Brazil, there are more than distributors of cosmetics AVON, than soldiers. Physical beauty is there so high, that the word 'self-loving' is considered a compliment.
32. Eighty-two percent of the world's smokers live in developing countries.
33. World oil reserves may be depleted by 2040
34. More than 70 percent of the world's population has never heard the phone ring. In Africa, only one in 40 people has a mobile phone.
35. A quarter of the armed conflicts in the world in recent years linked to the struggle for the possession of natural resources.
36. Nearly 30 million Africans are living with HIV infection. By 2050, the disease may claim the lives of 280 million people.
37. Each year, the world cease to exist ten languages.
38 people die from suicide than in armed conflict. Over the past 45 years the number of suicides in the world grew by 60 per cent.
39. In the US, seven million women and one million men suffer from diseases caused by malnutrition.
40. Washington, DC, there are 67,000 people involved in lobbying interests of different industry - 125 people for each member of Congress.
41. Since 1977, in North America recorded 80,000 acts of violence and sabotage in connection with the activities of the clinic making abortion.
42. In armed conflicts around the world up in arms involving more than 300,000 children.
43. People know better sign 'McDonald' (Golden Arches) than the Christian cross. The same applies to the logo of the oil company Shell, icon 'Mercedes' and the Olympic rings.
44. One-third of obese people in the world live in developing countries. Representatives of social movements accused Western countries in the supply of food to poor countries with high fat content at dumping prices.
45. In 2003, the US spent on the armed forces of 379 billion dollars. This is 22 times greater than the combined military spending of seven 'rogue states': Cuba, Iraq, Iran, Libya, North Korea, Sudan and Syria.
46. As a result of domestic violence in Russia each year kills more than 12,000 women.
47. 61% of British teenagers believe that aliens have visited Earth, and adhere to the Christian faith, only 39%.
48. Each year, two million girls and women get genital mutilation as a result of sexual violence.
49. In China, as a result of the preferences enjoyed by sons than daughters, and the operation of the law "one-child" There are women in the 44 million less than the men.
50. Every year in Western Europe exported some 120 000 women and girls. The UN estimates that the volume of trafficking of 4 billion pounds a year.
2. For black Americans a chance to end up in prison is one in three, whereas their white fellow citizens for this probability is one to seventeen.
3. Every fifth inhabitant of the Earth (1.25 billion people) are malnourished.
4. Among the 15-year-olds about half of the UK have already tried drugs, and nearly a quarter - regularly smoke cigarettes.
5. Children living in poor families are three times more likely to suffer illness, leading to mental retardation than children from wealthy families.
6. 81% of death sentences, executions worldwide in 2002, accounted for three countries: China, Iran and the United States.
7. Department Stores UK know about your customers more than the government of its population. They use the so-called "loyalty cards" to determine your interests and incomes.
8. Subsidies for the maintenance of one cow, allocated by the European Union, make up 1 pound 40 pence a day - three-quarters of Africans forced to exist on a smaller amount.
9. Same-sex sexual relations are prohibited by law in more than 70 countries. Nine, including Afghanistan, Iran and Saudi Arabia, are punishable by death.
10. Every hour, the British housewife emit an amount of debris that it would be enough to fill all the space of the Royal Albert Hall.
11. Today in the world there are 27 million slaves.
12. One third of the world's population is at war. In 2002, the world has seen 37 military conflicts with the participation of 30 countries (the total population of 2.29 billion people).
13. The United Kingdom is the second largest among developed countries after the United States in the number of pregnancies among adolescents. For 1000 women in childbirth account for 30.8 teenagers. Teenage mothers are twice more likely to be in poverty.
14. Every fifth inhabitant of the planet is forced to exist on the amount is less than 50 pence per day.
15. In India, 44 million laborers - children, some of them work 16 hours a day.
16. People in the industrialized world consumes in a year from six to seven kilograms of food additives. Sandwich with ham can contain up to 13 E-units.
17. Tiger Woods - a famous golfer and highest paid athlete, earning 44 million pounds a year, including 30, 000 pounds a day that is a cap with the word Nike, for the production of which Thai workers get 2.20 pounds a day. < br />
18. Every week from US schools exclude an average of 88 pupils for carrying weapons.
19. Every hour one person is killed or maimed by mines.
20. In the world there are at least 300,000 political prisoners are often kept in appalling conditions, and sometimes - subjected to torture only for being peacefully express their own beliefs.
21. Every minute by a car killed one person.
22. The United States owed the United Nations contributions amounting to $ 1 billion, while every 23 hours to the American military program spent a similar amount.
23. In 2001, during the general election in the UK was attended by 26 million people. The number of viewers who have submitted their votes for the first transmission of the participants 'Pop Idol', was more than 32 million people.
24. In Kenya, the cost of bribes make up one-third of a household budget.
25. Drug trafficking in the world reaches the sum of 225 billion pounds - the same number of sales for the pharmaceuticals industry of the world.
26. Upon delivery of the aircraft kiwi fruit from New Zealand to the United Kingdom, the volume of gas released into the atmosphere, contributing to the emergence of 'greenhouse effect', five times the weight of the fetus.
27. It is known that in more than 150 countries, torture.
28. Each year, Americans spend more on pornography 5, 6 billion pounds - while their government is spending the same amount on foreign aid.
29. On average, every Englishman fixed video cameras 300 times a day. We controlled most nation in the world with our 30 million CCTV cameras (10% of the world's total).
30. In 2001, 13, 2 million Americans and 2, 5 million British suffered plastic surgery.
31. In Brazil, there are more than distributors of cosmetics AVON, than soldiers. Physical beauty is there so high, that the word 'self-loving' is considered a compliment.
32. Eighty-two percent of the world's smokers live in developing countries.
33. World oil reserves may be depleted by 2040
34. More than 70 percent of the world's population has never heard the phone ring. In Africa, only one in 40 people has a mobile phone.
35. A quarter of the armed conflicts in the world in recent years linked to the struggle for the possession of natural resources.
36. Nearly 30 million Africans are living with HIV infection. By 2050, the disease may claim the lives of 280 million people.
37. Each year, the world cease to exist ten languages.
38 people die from suicide than in armed conflict. Over the past 45 years the number of suicides in the world grew by 60 per cent.
39. In the US, seven million women and one million men suffer from diseases caused by malnutrition.
40. Washington, DC, there are 67,000 people involved in lobbying interests of different industry - 125 people for each member of Congress.
41. Since 1977, in North America recorded 80,000 acts of violence and sabotage in connection with the activities of the clinic making abortion.
42. In armed conflicts around the world up in arms involving more than 300,000 children.
43. People know better sign 'McDonald' (Golden Arches) than the Christian cross. The same applies to the logo of the oil company Shell, icon 'Mercedes' and the Olympic rings.
44. One-third of obese people in the world live in developing countries. Representatives of social movements accused Western countries in the supply of food to poor countries with high fat content at dumping prices.
45. In 2003, the US spent on the armed forces of 379 billion dollars. This is 22 times greater than the combined military spending of seven 'rogue states': Cuba, Iraq, Iran, Libya, North Korea, Sudan and Syria.
46. As a result of domestic violence in Russia each year kills more than 12,000 women.
47. 61% of British teenagers believe that aliens have visited Earth, and adhere to the Christian faith, only 39%.
48. Each year, two million girls and women get genital mutilation as a result of sexual violence.
49. In China, as a result of the preferences enjoyed by sons than daughters, and the operation of the law "one-child" There are women in the 44 million less than the men.
50. Every year in Western Europe exported some 120 000 women and girls. The UN estimates that the volume of trafficking of 4 billion pounds a year.
