Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
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Drew DeSilver is a senior writer at Pew Research Center.
Journalists and print loyalists who are dejected about the state of the U.S. newspaper business may be comforted — or perhaps made a bit envious — by the knowledge that in at least some other countries, newspaper circulation continues to rise smartly. The chart below, from The Economist’s Graphic Detail blog, uses data from the World Press […]
Nearly seven in 10 Americans agree that there’s solid evidence the earth’s average temperature has been rising over the past few decades.
Worldwide, roughly two-thirds of the countries that allow gay marriage are in Western Europe.
The Mediterranean is a sea of misery, according to the Pew Research Center’s recent report on global economic trends. Nations ringing the Mediterranean consistently rank at or near the top of multiple measures of pessimism in the 39-country survey. And, in what should surprise exactly no one, Greece has by far the bleakest outlook, topping […]
More than a third of Americans say they or someone in their household owns a gun.
About one in eight Americans say they’ve used marijuana within the past year.
Almost nine in 10 retired military leaders said cyber attacks from China are a serious problem for the United States.
The sharp drop in teen birth rates, especially among Hispanic teens, appears to be linked to both economic and attitudinal factors. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported last week that the birth rate among 15- to 19-year-olds had fallen to a record low 31.3 births per 1,000 in 2011. Teen birth rates dropped for […]
Number of Americans who killed themselves with a gun in 2010.
Young adults are less trusting in general but more willing to trust at least some government officials and agencies. Overall, the United States is one of the more trusting societies in the world.
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