World of Statistics

2030: 16.0
2040: 15.0
2050: 14.6

World historical and projected crude birth rates (births per 1,000 population):

1950: 37.8
1955: 36.3
1960: 35.3
1965: 34.7
1970: 32.9
1975: 30.2
1980: 28.1
1985: 27.5
1990: 26.0
1995: 23.3
2000: 21.7
2005: 20.7
2010: 19.9
2015: 19.0
2020: 18.0
2021: 17.8
2022: 17.6
2023: 17.4

Share of fully battery-electric and pug-in hybrids cars sold in 2024:

🇳🇴 Norway: 92%
🇸🇪 Sweden: 58%
🇨🇳 China: 48%
🇬🇧 UK: 28%
🇨🇭 Switzerland: 28%
🇪🇺 EU: 21%
🇨🇦 Canada: 17%
🇦🇺 Australia: 13%
🇺🇸 USA: 10%
🇰🇷 South Korea: 9%
🇧🇷 Brazil: 6%
🇯🇵 Japan: 3%
🇮🇳 India: 2%

Source: IEA, Global EV Outlook 2025

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Passive interest: $12m
NFTs: $1.2m

(Forbes)

Donald Trump $6 billion net worth:

Crypto: $3b
Truth social: $2.2b
Hotels: $1.1b
Real estate: $1.1b
Licensing: $600m
US golf, hotel, restaurant revenue: $378m
Token sales: $57.4m
Ireland & Scotland golf/hotels: $38.9m
Overseas licensing: $31m
Royalties: $26m
US management fees: $22m

🇺🇸 Where Layoffs in 2025 Are Hitting the Hardest

Announced Job Cuts as of June 30, 2025:

Government 288,600
Retail 79,900
Technology 76,200
Services 48,700
Consumer Products 31,400
Health Care/Products 30,100
Financial 25,800
Warehousing 24,400
Non-Profit 16,900
Telecommunications 14,900

🇺🇸 Party identification

🔵 Democrats: 46% (+3)
🔴 Republicans: 43% (-4)

Change from Q4 2024

(Gallup)

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Number of billionaires:

🇺🇸 USA: 867
🇨🇳 China: 278
🇩🇪 Germany: 80
🇬🇧 UK: 72
🇫🇷 France: 60
🇨🇦 Canada: 54
🇦🇺 Australia: 52
🇮🇹 Italy: 48
🇯🇵 Japan: 44
🇨🇭 Switzerland: 40

Source: The Henley Private Wealth Migration Report 2025

BREAKING: 🇺🇸 Tech giant Microsoft passes $4 trillion milestone.

Microsoft has become only the second publicly traded company after Nvidia to surpass $4 trn in market valuation, after registering huge earnings.

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🇺🇸 US national debt today: $37.1 trillion

Debt per citizen: $108k

Debt per taxpayer: $323k

2012 - 125 million
2011 - 72 million
2010 - 40 million
2009 - 21 million
2008 - 12 million
2007 - 1 million

 iPhones sold:

2024 - 232 million
2023 - 232 million
2022 - 225 million
2021 - 234 million
2020 - 197 million
2019 - 187 million
2018 - 218 million
2017 - 217 million
2016 - 212 million
2015 - 231 million
2014 - 169 million
2013 - 150 million

The Euro has gained 13% on USD YTD.

Aircraft carrier fleets:

🇺🇸 USA: 11
🇨🇳 China: 3
🇬🇧 UK: 2
🇮🇹 Italy: 2
🇮🇳 India: 2
🇫🇷 France: 1
🇷🇺 Russia: 1
🇪🇸 Spain: 1

(Global Fire Power)

🧀 Only 16% of French people surveyed in 2015 said they could live without cheese ‘sans aucun problème’ (without any problem).

Day of the year: 206

Obesity rate

🇺🇸 USA: 42.74%
🇨🇳 China: 8.37%
🇮🇳 India: 7.51%

Worldobesity, BMI > 30kg/m², adults

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💎 Countries that produce the most diamonds (value of diamonds produced annually):

🇷🇺 Russia: $3.6B
🇧🇼 Botswana: $3.3B
🇨🇦 Canada: $1.5B
🇦🇴 Angola: $1.5B
🇳🇦 Namibia: $1.2B
🇿🇦 South Africa: $794M
🇿🇼 Zimbabwe: $303M
🇱🇸 Lesotho: $139M
🇸🇱 Sierra Leone: $102M
🇨🇩 DR Congo: $65M

World Population Review, 2023 data

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🇮🇳 India GDP per capita

1980: $267
1990: $368
2000: $442
2010: $1,350
2020: $1,920
2023: $2,500
2024: $2,710
2025: $2,880

🇪🇺🇺🇸 By PPP the EU is only $1 trillion away from the USA.

19% of the EU's GDP comes from manufacturing as opposed to the USA's 10%.

🇰🇵 North Korea made their exchange rate against the dollar at 2.16 because of Kim Jong Il's birthday on 16 February.

🇹🇷 🇨🇾 On this day 51 years ago (1974), Turkish troops invaded Cyprus, causing a political split of the island that lasts till today.

⚡️ When lightning strikes it can reach up to 30,000 degrees celsius (54,000 degrees fahrenheit).

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