-25
Minimum percentage change in total sales of American-brand products in Arab nations since last year.
+100
Percentage by which the number of cancer cases worldwide will increase by 2020, according to the World Health Organization.
29
Percentage of Japanese who rate their kisses an 8 or higher, on a scale of 1 to 10.
72
Percentage of Italian men who do.
110
Minimum number of Serbian Orthodox churches that have been destroyed since the NATO intervention in 1999.
1 in 3
Chance that a cancer in the UK is caused by poor diet.
1 in 3
Chance that a cancer in the U.S. is related to diet or lack of exercise.
59, 29
Percentage of African-Americans who supported the first and second Gulf Wars, respectively.
53
Percentage of Americans on April 11 who supported using military force against North Korea.
6
Number of presidents Argentina has had in the past two years.
+25
Percentage change in U.S. sales of the U.S. flag since last year.
6
Number of Israeli reservists who have been sent to guard a single settler living on a West Bank hill.
$3,000,000
Estimated value of a nativity scene made from pure cocaine seized at the Rome airport in April.
823
Number of Americans who listed themselves in the 2000 census as being of six races.
25
Percentage of North Koreans who are being fed by World Food Program, the humanitarian aid group.
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1,000
Minimum number of human-rights violators from abroad who now reside in the U.S., according to Amnesty International.
4/23
Annual feast day of Khizr, Islam’s patron saint of cannabis.
1 in 4
Chance that a weapons system in the U.S. military is maintained by a for-profit contractor.
$1.6 million
Price of the world’s most expensive shoes, sold at Harrods in London.
10 to 15
Number of times per day adults laugh.
$108,333
Amount a German judge ordered a self-professed witch to pay four dissatisfied customers who complained her “love potion” failed to work.
1 in 4
Number of homeless South Koreans who have a credit card.
22
Number of religions listed in the Encyclopedia of American Religion that believe in UFOs.
100,000,000
Minimum number of Latin American residents about whom the U.S. government has bought personal data since 2001.
3
Minimum number of children under the age of 16 who are being held in the U.S. camp at Guantanamo Bay.
966
Number of Congolese villagers killed by militants in one week in April 2003.
5
Percentage of people in the EU seeking asylum in 1992 who did so in Britain.
$390
Minimum amount that the UK government will put into a savings account for every baby born since September 2002.
40
Minimum number of American companies that have cut ties to Myanmar since 2000 because of a human-rights boycott.
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Index sources
These figures originally appeared in Harper’s Monthly
1. American Prospect
2. British Medical Journal
3., 4. Look Japan
5. Antiwar.com
6., 7. British Medical Journal
8. Gallup
9. National Journal
10. Embassy of Argentina
11. Guardian
12. Haaretz
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13. ABC.net.au
14. U.S. Census Bureau
15., 16. Mother Jones
17. Cannabis Culture
18. Mother Jones
19.-23. Oregonian
24. ChoicePoint Inc. (Atlanta)
25. BBC
26. National Review
27. United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (Geneva)
28. Her Majesty’s Treasury (London)
29. Free Burma Coalition (Washington, D.C.)