Quotes About Statistics

Even in nonindustrialized societies, girls do not start having children the moment they reach menarche; the average age worldwide for a first baby is nineteen, according to a 2008 article in Science.

Suppose you have a village of 100 people. If half of them die at age five, perhaps from such childhood ailments, twenty die at age sixty, and the remaining thirty die at seventy-five, the average life span in the society is thirty-seven, but not a single person actually reached the age of thirty hale and hearty and then suddenly began to senesce.

First and foremost, well over half of all workers globally, 90 per cent in developing countries and 67 per cent in emerging economies, are informally employed. It is only in developed countries that most workers (82 per cent) are formally employed (ILO 2018a). As

Although Hollywood commonly portrays children in foster care as toddlers clutching teddy bears, nearly one-half are eleven or older. And about one-fifth—103,500—are sixteen or older.

My uneaten client stat is high.)

Americans, I'd learned, walked less than any other industrialized nation on earth, with the average US native taking 5,117 steps daily compared to 9,695 in Australia, 7,168 in Japan and 9,650 in Switzerland.

Denmark shows up regularly on magazine and online lists as "the happiest nation on earth," yet every year tens of thousands of business professionals leave the country. In a nation of only 5.6 million people, where one in four Danish women admits to suffering from high degrees of stress, its hard not to believe that some lists can be misleading. Denmark

Tüketici ürünlerinde tüm yeni markalar?n yüzde 52'si ve bireysel ürünlerde yüzde 75'i tutunam?yor.

It's easier to get your high school diploma, become a police inspector, or get your master's degree in literature than to commit suicide. The success rate is less than eight percent.

In the early 1990s, for example, 300 million people lived in countries where men's life expectancy was higher than that of women. Today, the number is practically zero.

The largest concentrations of women were found in industries with the smallest number of accidents. In such industries, women outnumbered men nearly four to one. Conversely, in the most dangerous places, there were hardly any women at all.[367]

From 1939 to 1944 the proportion of students who were female went up seven-fold, reaching 49.3 percent of the total student body.

For example, at Wigan Pier, later to be made famous by George Orwell, women formed just 5.5 percent of the work force. Of them, not a single one worked underground.[355]

In 1945, out of 52 million American adult women only 19.5 million held jobs. Among married women, only a quarter did.[364] Though the image of Rosie the Riveter dominated propaganda, its link to reality was tenuous. In metal-working plants of all types, male workers outnumbered female ones more than three to one.[365]

in all species for which information is available, once the sex of the fetus is determined, more males than females are aborted.[120]

At a very rough guess there might have been between 1.5 and 2 million slaves in Italy in the middle of the first century BCE, making up perhaps 20 per cent of the total population. They

In South Dakota about 6 percent of the population are Indians, but we account for 43 percent of arrests and 50 percent of all convictions.

The New England Jornal of Medicine reports that nine out of ten doctors agree that one out of ten doctors is an idiot.

Half of the people in the world are below average.

The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans are suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.

Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.

It is a sad fact that 50 percent of marriages in this country end in divorce. But hey, the other half end in death. You could be one of the lucky ones!

Percentages! Those are for economists, polls, and politicians. Percentages can't define your identity.

I've done an informal, anecdotal survey about marriage, and I've found no evidence that it brings happiness.