All posts with 'Statistics' tag
Gasoline Prices Around The Globe
Gasoline prices in the major capital cities. Per gallon, in US dollars.
As you can see on the chart above, gasoline prices in the world are quite different. Londoners have the most expensive gas on the planet, what is quite explainable for the island with a high standards of living. Fortunately, their distances are shorter than […]
Language Usage Statistics From Wikipedia
There are a lot of different statistics on world language usage published already. Some of them using pretty much data from the very official sources and some of them are just extrapolations. People like to know that their native language is used by millions other people on the Earth or vice versa - rare language […]
Read More..>>What kills pornstars?
Rame.net have a list of the porn performers who have died recently. It’s sad but life is life. Though it’s an interesting statistics on the reasons of death:
Accidental (mostly car accidents) - 24
AIDS / HIV - 98 (most of them are gay actors)
Medical (cancer, heart attacks) - 70 (including heart attacks and liver failures due […]
US states as contries by GDP
Interesting map found on the Strangemaps blog: it represents US states as countries with comparable GDP (Gross Domestic Product).
If California was a separate country it would take the France’s place #8. GDP of Texas compares to that of Canada. Florida - US third largest GDP - is comparable to South Korea. The “poorest” US state […]
Detroit is dying
Detroit is dying. Former automobile manufacturing capital of the world lost 50% of its population. 1950 census counted 1,849,568 detroiters. In 2000 Detroit’s population was 951,270 and still decreasing. Used to be so rich, so beautiful city almost lying in ruins nowadays. Forgotten Detroit website have a big photo archive of urban decay.
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