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Global Statistics Journal: July 4, 2009

By Justin Long ⋅ July 4, 2009 ⋅ Email This Post Email This Post ⋅ Print This Post Print This Post ⋅ Post a comment

Mobile banking
% of Kenyans with bank accounts: 20%
Mobile phones in Africa, 2003: 50 million
Mobile phones in Africa, 2007: 270 million
Number of phones in Japan with e-money function: 55 million
% of Japanese carrying mobile money phone: 50%
Mobile banking customers, 2012: 190 million
Source: Boston Globe

Internet and Video statistics
Total Internet users, USA, watching video: 152 million
% of total USA Internet users: 78.6%
Total videos watched by USA users: 16.8 billion
Average minutes watched per user: 385 minutes, or 6.4 hours
Watchers of Youtube videos: 107.1 million
Videos per viewer: 63.5
Watchers of Myspace videos: 49 million
Myspace videos per watcher: 7.9
Watchers of Yahoo videos: 45.4 million
Yahoo videos per watcher: 7.8
Watchers of Hulu videos: 40.1 million
Hulu videos per watcher: 9.9
Source: SearchEngineWatch.com

Facebook chat: 1 billion messages sent daily

Entertainment
Total video game players: 1 billion (“in a few years”)
Source: EA CEO John Riccitello

Grim statistics
People living on under $1 per day: 1 billion (UNICEF 2007)
Children/youth infected with AIDS, monthly: 31,000
Orphans due to HIV/AIDS: 15 million (World Refugee Survey)
Children dying daily due to preventable diseases: 26,000
Refugees from countries due to war: 14 million (UNICEF 2008)
HT: Doug Nichols

India’s housing need
Number of houses needed by India’s cities: 25 million
Shantytown dwellers, Mumbai: 8 million
Cost of 70-sq.meter flat in central Mumbai: US$500,000
Solution: The “nano” home: ultra low cost housing
Source: Economist.com

Traffic accidents
A new report by the World Health Organization estimates 1.27 million people each year worldwide are killed in traffic accidents, and nearly half are pedestrians, cyclists and motorcyclists (World Health Organization).

Focus on the Family
The ministry has an audience of 230 million people in 149 countries.
Source: Pewforum.org

Internally Displaced Numbers
Total internally displaced persons: 26 million
Total internally displaced persons under UN care, 2008: 14.4 million
Total internally displaced persons under UN care, 2007: 13.7 million
Total displaced (internal+external): 42 million
Total refugees & asylum seekers: 16 million
Source: United Nations via Al Jazeera

Human trafficking
Total victims of forced labor, bonded labor, sexual slavery, p.a.: 12.3 million
Source: International Labor Organization

Demographics

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