Human population of the world as of September 4, 2000: 6,094,046,761
Projected human population of the world in 2050: 9,000,000,000
Estimated human population of the world in 1850: 1,000,000,000
Number of independent countries of the world as of September 4, 2000: 190
Number of airline passengers that cross international borders each day: 500,000
Number of e-mail messages that cross international borders each day: 1,500,000,000
Number of dollars that cross international borders each day: $1,500,000,000,000
Number of people worldwide living on less than $2 per day: 3,000,000,000
Newstand price of a Sunday New York Times: $2.50
Percentage of children in Africa under age 14 employed at least part-time: 41
Percentage of children in Asia under age 14 employed at least part-time: 22
Percentage of children in the United States under age 14 employed at least part-time: 0.8
Estimated total number of child laborers in the United States: 300,000
Percentage of total U.S. workforce who are immigrants: 12
Number of people worldwide who are illiterate: 1,000,000,000
Press run of the first edition of Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire: 3,000,000
Number of people worldwide without access to safe water: 1,300,000,000
Number of people worldwide without access to adequate sanitation: 2,600,000,000
Number of children under the age of 5 who die each year from easily preventable diseases such as diarrhea, malaria and measles: 11,000,000
Number of people who die every day as a result of poor water quality: 25,000
Number of liters of fresh water it takes to grow a kilogram of wheat: 900
Number of liters of fresh water it takes to grow a kilogram of grain-fed beef: 100,000
Percentage of the world's working-hours performed by women: 66
Percentage of the world's income earned by women: 10
Percentage of the world's wealth owned by women: 1
Number of people worldwide who turn 60 each month: 1,200,000
Number of persons who will be age 60 or older by 2020: 1,400,000,000
Estimated worldwide human life expectancy by 2020: 73
Worldwide human life expectancy in 1955: 48
Percentage of school-age children in the developing world without access to education who are girls: 66
Number of fewer births per woman with some secondary education in Latin America compared with those who have none: 2
Number of men, women, and children worldwide who have died of AIDS: 18,800,000
Number of men, women, and children worldwide presently living with HIV/AIDS: 34,300,000
Number of people newly infected with HIV in 1999: 5,400,000
Number of countries in Africa with at least one in five adults infected with HIV: 7
Percentage of adults in Botswana infected with HIV: 35.8
Number of phone lines in all of Africa: 14,000,000
Number of phone lines operated by the U.S. phone company Verizon Communications: 63,000,000
Percentage of world population with access to telephones: 20
Percentage of world population connected to the Internet: 2
Number of pages (including this one) on the World Wide Web: 320,000,000
Percentage of all websites in English: 80
Percentage of world population that understands English: 10
Percentage of the world's population living in South Asia: 20
Percentage of all Internet users living in South Asia: 1
Number of industrial countries that hold 97% of all patents wordwide: 25
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