World Facts

WORLD MAP

INTERESTING NUMBERS

• ·       Population:

6,928,198,253 (July 2011 est.)

• ·     Age structure:

0-14 years: 26.3% (male 944,987,919/female 884,268,378)

15-64 years: 65.9% (male 2,234,860,865/female 2,187,838,153)

65 years and over: 7.9% (male 227,164,176/female 289,048,221) (2011 est.)

• ·     Population growth rate:

1.092% (2011 est.)

• ·     HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS:

33.3 million (2009 est.)

• ·     Electricity - production:

19.12 trillion kWh (2007 est.)

• ·     Electricity - consumption:

17.78 trillion kWh (2007 est.)

• ·     Airports:

total airports - 43,982 (2010)

top ten by passengers: Atlanta (ATL) - 88,032,086; London (LHR) - 66,037,578; Beijing (PEK) - 65,372,012; Chicago (ORD) - 64,158,343; Tokyo (HND) - 61,903,656; Paris (CDG) - 57,906,866; Los Angeles (LAX) - 56,520,843; Dallas/Fort Worth (DFW) - 56,030,457; Frankfurt (FRA) - 50,932,840; Denver (DEN) - 50,167,485 (2009)

top ten by cargo (metric tons): Memphis (MEM) - 3,697,054; Hong Kong (HKG) - 3,385,313; Shanghai (PVG) - 2,543,394; Inch'on (ICN) - 2,313,001; Paris (CDG) - 2,054,515; Anchorage (ANC) - 1,994,629; Louisville (SDF) - 1,949,528; Dubai (DXB) - 1,927,520; Frankfurt (FRA) - 1,887,686; Tokyo (NRT) - 1,851,972 (2009)

• ·     Heliports:

3,825 (2010)

• ·     Railways:

total: 1,138,632 km (2008)

• ·     Roadways:

total: 102,260,304 km (2008)

• Comparison of land area of earth and USA:

Land area about 16 times the size of the US

• Telephones - mobile cellular:

5.3 billion (2010)

• ·     Internet users:

2.1 billion (2010)

WORLD AT A GLANCE

FOR MORE INFORMATION:  http://factchannel.blogspot.com/p/world-at-glance.html

Special edition of graphs

SOME GRAPHS ARE WORTH LOOKING

NEWS!!!!!!

Yo!!! What happened to people in 2009.

Seems right........

Number of people happy....

Can anybody argue against it. I challenge you...

That's a freaking truth inside an american

Better change your electronic devices!

 

Wow! I am moving to Texas....

Top regions

That's Funny.....

Just joking!!!!

Special edition of animals

INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT ANIMALS

* A 1,200-pound horse eats about seven times it's own weight each year.

* A bird requires more food in proportion to its size than a baby or cat.

* A newborn kangaroo is about 1 inch in length.

         

   
*A rat can last longer without water than camel can.

* A single little brown bat can catch 1,200 mosquitoes-sized insects in just 1 hr.

* A woodpecker can peck twenty times a second.

* A chimpanzee can learn to recognize itself in a mirror, but monkeys can't.

* Gastric frog, native to Australia,is known to give birth to its young one through the mouth.

*Whale shark measures 18 metre.It is the world's biggest fish.

*A butterfly has 12,000 eyes.

*If gold fish is left in a dark room for a long time, it turns white.

*This is a mind-boggling fact – for 'each' of the 600 million people there is about 200 million insects crawling, flying...

*The largest snakes in the world, anacondas can grow to 550 pounds (227 kilograms)

Mind blowing facts

ü Ever experienced a solar eclipse? Be sure to wear something warm! During a total solar eclipse the temperature can drop by 6 degree Celsius.

ü On Uranus, summer lasts for 21 years, and so does winter.

                

ü The fastest growing plant is the bamboo. Some varieties can grow up to three feet in a day.

                  

ü Tiger can spend up to eighteen hours sleeping.

                    

ü Earth is the only planet not named after a God

      

ü Tigers will occasionally eat vegetation for dietary fibre.

                        

ü The great plague of Europe (542 A.D- 593 A.D) killed half the population of  Europe.

                      

ü Dolphin’s sleep with one eye open.

                 

ü In a poll conducted by Animal planet, the tiger was voted the world’s favourite animal, narrowly beating the dog.Tigers received 21% of the votes and dogs 20%.

    ü The six official languages of the United Nation are English, French, Arabic, Chinese, Russian, and Spanish.

Some facts are shocking.

 ü  The hair of an adult man or woman can stretch 25 percent of its length without breaking.
  

  ü  One third of the electricity produced on earth is used to power electric light bulbs! 

   ü  The present population of 5 billion plus people of the world is predicted to become 15 billion by 2080.

                      
ü  Finger nails grow nearly 4 times faster than toe nails!

   

üSome worms will eat themselves if they can’t find any food!

ü  The original English language alphabet had only 24 letters “J” and “v” joined the alphabet much later.

ü  Adolf Hitler was a vegetarian, and had only one testicle.

ü If you are locked in a completely sealed room, you will die of carbon dioxide poisoning first before you will die of oxygen deprivation.

ü  Each day is longer than the previous on by 0.00000002 seconds which is 13 seconds each century!

üDonald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear trousers.

ü One in every 4 Americans has appeared on television!

    

Facts are true

 ü  55 percent of people yawn within 5 minutes of seeing someone else yawn.

 ü  The average person laughs 10 times a day.

   
 ü  The world’s most popular sport is soccer! Soccer games are      attended or watched by more people than any other sport.

ü  France,   a country of about 60 million people has 60 million tourists every year.

   ü  Every day and average human being spends about 1 hour on travel.

ü  There are no poisonous snakes in Maine, USA.

ü  Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

ü  If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.

ü  More people are allergic to cow’s milk than any other food.

ü  The world’s best-selling book is the Bible! It is also the most shop-lifted book in the world.