Here are some interesting stats I found at: http://www.nationmaster.com (most of these numbers are from 2000, before Bush was selected and before he radically altered, I'm sure, at least some of these numbers) and at the CIA World Factbook, with July 2005 estimated numbers.
Here are some interesting numbers:
"America is first in McDonald’s restaurants per million people and mortality due to obesity, with more deaths than Mexico, Germany, Spain, Austria and Canada combined.
The United States consumes more energy than India, the Middle East, South America, Africa, South East Asia and Oceania combined - which means more than 3.1 billion people.
More than 8.5 million planes take off from airports in the USA every year. That is almost half the number worldwide. More than a third of all the airports in the world are in the USA."
GENERAL:
Area - Land: US ranks #4 at 9,631,418 sq km
Population: US is ranked #4 at 295,734,134 (out of 6,446,131,400).
GDP (value of all final goods and services produced within a nation in a given year): US ranks #1 with $11,750,000,000,000
GDP - per capita: purchasing power parity - $40,100 (2004 est.)
GDP - PPP (purchasing power parity): US ranked #1 in the year 2000 at $9,612.7 billion
Gasoline prices (Ratio of premium gasoline price to world average): US ranked #102 at 0.77 (1998-2000 MRYA); way under countries like Uganda, Croatia, Lithuania, etc. -- odd when we can most afford it!
TAXATION:
Total tax wedge - Single worker : US is ranked #21 at 30%
Corporate income tax (Corporate Income tax as a percentage of total tax collected by the country.): Us ranks #10, at 8.5%
Personal income tax (Personal Income tax as a percentage of total tax collected by the country. ): US ranks #3 at 42.4%
Goods and service tax (Goods and service tax as a percentage of total tax collected by the country.): US ranks #18 at 15.7%
Property tax (Property tax as a percentage of total tax collected by the country. ): US ranks #3 at 10.1%
Social security - Contribution by employees (Tax on employee's contribution of social security as a percentage of total tax collected by the country. ): US ranks #6 at 10.2%
RANKINGS IN EDUCATION:
Average years of schooling of adults: #1 at 12.0 years of eduation (2000), (although we rank #68 in Literacy - Total population at 97% literacy)
Education spending: #47 at 4.7% of GDP, 1990-99 (worse now, I'm sure).
Public spending per student - Primary level: US ranks #36, with a score of 17.9 (1998-2002) -- compare that to #1 Lithuania, who scored 61.4 (1998-2002), and has a literacy rate of 99.6%.
Scientific literacy: US ranks #14 with a score of 499 mean value of performance scale 15 years old (2000) (but don't ask me what that means!)
Reading literacy: US ranks #15
Mathematical literacy: US ranks #18
LIFESTYLE:
Human Development Index: US ranks #6 at an index of 0.939 (whatever this means!)
We're not doing too bad in some other lifestyle sections, either :-) :
Beer consumption: US ranked #8 at 85 liters per person (2000)
Cannabis use : we're #3! -- 12.30% of people who have used cannabis;
Then there's happiness:
Happiness level - Very happy: US ranks #8 with 39% of people who answered the survey question: ""Taking all things together, would you say you are: very happy, quite happy, not very happy, or not at all happy?"" by stating that they were ""Very happy""." and #36 in
Happiness level - Not very or not at all happy: only 8% answered the same survey question "by stating that they were "not very" happy or "not at all" happy."
Life satisfaction: US ranks #12 scoring their lives at 7.4 out often when asked "All things considered, how satisfied or dissatisfied are you with your life-as-a-whole now? 1 dissatisfied to10 satisfied"
Here's a surprise(?): in the 1990's, when that evil bastard Clinton was making hay (just kidding -- I love him - though not in that way!) , the people of the US were ranked #1 in Very proud of their nationality with 77% responding they were very proud. Wonder what that number is now?
ENERGY:
Oil - production: 7.8 million bbl/day (2004 est.)
Oil - consumption: 19.65 million bbl/day (2001 est.)
Electricity - production: 3.839 trillion kWh (2002)
Electricity - consumption: 3.66 trillion kWh (2002)
Electricity - exports: 13.36 billion kWh (2002)
Electricity - imports: 36.23 billion kWh (2002)
Oil - proved reserves: 22.45 billion bbl (1 January 2002)
Natural gas - production: 548.1 billion cu m (2001 est.)
Natural gas - consumption: 640.9 billion cu m (2001 est.)
Natural gas - exports: 11.16 billion cu m (2001 est.)
Natural gas - imports: 114.1 billion cu m (2001 est.)
Natural gas - proved reserves: 5.195 trillion cu m (1 January 2002)
CRIME: We're #1 in:
Adults prosecuted: at 14,203,822 (1999)
Assaults: at 2,238,480 (1999)
Burglaries: 2,099,700 (1999)
Car thefts: 1,147,300 (1999)
Crime: Drug offences at 560.1 per 100,000 people
Females prosecuted: 2,481,808 (1999)
Prisoners: 2,078,570 prisoners
Prisoners - Per capita: 715 per 100,000 people
Rapes: 89,110 (1999)
Software piracy losses: $6,496
Total crimes: 23,677,800 (1999)
TRANSPORTATION: We're #1 in:
CO2 Emissions: 5,762,054.0
Light commercial vehicle production: 7,000,354
Motor vehicles: 65 per 1000 people (1996)
POLITICS: We're #1 in:
Female decision makers: 45% (although we're [162nd of 166] in Female candidacy: with only 1788 females having run for office)
Presidential elections - Total vote: 105,404,546 (2000)
Presidential elections - Voter registration: 156,421,311 (2000)
Presidential elections - Voting age population: 213,954,023 (2000) (but we rank [65th of 85] for Presidential elections - Turnout: at only 49.3% (2000), and [56th of 89] for Presidential elections - Registered voter turnout: at only 67.4% (2000)
We're also #1 in:
Divorce rate: US ranks #1 at 4.95 per 1000 people
Gender division of housework: 2.26
Confidence in social institutions - Church: 72%
Members of voluntary organisations - Parties: 12%
Soft drink consumption: 216.0 litres
Undesirable neighbours - Criminal record holders: 54%
Undesirable neighbours - Heavy drinkers: 61%
Military Expendtures: $370,700,000,000
Air force personnel: 370,300 (8/98)
Navy personnel: 380,600 (8/98)
Weapon holdings: 38,538,000 (2001)
Conventional arms exports: $4,562 million
Military Exports to developing nations: $90,929 million
Olympic medals - Bronze - Sydney 2000: 33 bronze medals
Olympic medals - Gold - Sydney 2000: 40 gold medals
Olympic medals - Total - Sydney 2000: 97 total medals
Olympic point totals - Sydney 2000: 201
Summer olympic medals - All time: 2,116
Aircraft departures: 8,534,500 (2001)
New citizenships: 898.0 thousand
English speakers:
210,000,000 first language speakers in USA (1984 estimate). 8,400,000 USA residents with no one 14 years old or older who speaks fluent English; 38% or 7,700,000 households headed by immigrants.
Catholic - Permanent Deacons: 13,462
Jehovahs Witnesses: 1,012,201 (2002)
Jews: 5,800,000
Cotton exports: 12,000thousand bales
Banana imports: $1,389 million
Economic importance: 197.9
Foreign investment: $124,435
Foreign investment - Share: 16.9%
Imports: $ 1,476,000,000,000
Growth competitiveness score: 5.82
Infrastructure: 100
Innovation: 30.30 (2001)
Technology index: 6.24
Internet Service Providers: 7,000 (2002 est.)
Internet Hosts: 115,311,958 (2002)
Secure servers: 37.5 per 100000 people
Linux web servers: 11,108
Livejournal users: 1,292,816
Personal computers: 161,000,000 (2000)
Radios: 575,000,000
Television viewing: 28 hours per person per week
Cinemas: 15,559 (2000)
Films produced: 3,865
Nuclear electricity generation: 780.1 terawatt-hours
Nuclear energy consumption: 821.1 terawatt-hours
Nuclear reactors operable: 104
Nuclear reactors operable - MWe: 98,530
Nuclear reactors uranium required: 21,741
Oil Usage per person: 8.35 TOE per person
Red Cross donations: 221,259,353
HEALTHCARE #1s:
Health Care - Total expenditure as % of GDP: 13.9% of GDP
Health care Spending - Per person: $4,271 (1999)
Health care funding - Private per capita: $2,580 per capita
Health care funding - Total per capita: $4,631 per capita
Child maltreatment deaths: 2.2 per 100,000 children
Motor vehicle deaths: 15.5 deaths per 100,000 people
Plastic surgery procedures: 90,992
Teen birth rate: 64
Teenage pregnancy: 494,357 births
Teenage pregnancy - Share: 22%
Obesity: 30.6%
Obesity in men: 27.8%
Obesity in women: 33.3%
DISEASES: We're #1 in:
We're#1 in a huge number of diseases; too many to list; see them here.
Some of these stats and much, much more can be found at: http://www.nationmaster.com .
Other stats and updated information was found at the CIA World Factbook online resource.
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