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With the coming of Worldometers.com in the World Wide Web, lucky are the students, researchers, and other users of statistics about the World!
Now, you’d be updated with statistics about:
- World population, statistics on births, deaths on a current day;
- Government and economics such as military expenditure, education expenditure, countries in the U.N., cars produced, bicycles produced, computers sold on a current year;
- Education and media (including book titles published, newspapers circulated, movie visitors, cumulative hours waited for web pages to download on a current year);
- Environment (including forest loss, productive land loss through soil erosion, topsoil erosion, carbon dioxide emission, desert land formed due to mismanagement, miles the Earth has traveled within the Solar System on a current year);
- Food (including tons of food produced, calories consumed, grams of protein consumed, undernourished people in the World, overweight people, people who died of hunger on a certain day, dollars spent on dieting);
- Water (including water consumed, deaths of water-related-diseases, people with no access to safe drinking water);
- Energy (including energy produced, energy consumed, consumed oil, consumed coal, Solar energy striking Earth on a current year); and,
- Health (including deaths caused by communicable diseases, deaths of children under five years, abortions, abortions due to risk of maternal health, deaths of mothers during birth, HIV infected people, deaths caused by HIV, deaths caused by malaria, deaths caused by cancer, deaths caused by smoking, millions of cigarettes produced, deaths caused by pesticides, babies born from teenagers, global government spending on health care, world spending on illegal drugs, US spending on perfume, automobile accident fatalities on a current year).
This is a great site, making research easy not just for students, but for advocates of health, hunger/food, or any advocacy on social issues.
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