Statistics
Africa’s children
Approximately 17 percent of Africa’s labor force is children.
Nearly 25 percent of Africa’s children between the ages of 10 and 14 are involved in labor.
About 80 percent of the world’s children under the age of 15 who are living with HIV are from Africa.
More than half of the continent’s estimated 15 million refugees and internally [...]
Russia’s grim statistics
Homeless children: 2 million
Orphaned children: 800,000
Illiterate teenagers: 2 million
Children in “socially negative conditions”: 6 million
% of Russian children who are healthy: 32%
% who have functional physical problems: 52%
% with chronic diseases: 16%
Russian teens who have tried/use heavy drugs: 4 million
Teenage drug addicts: 1 million
Teenager criminals, p.a.: 1 million
Number of crimes committed by teens p.a.: 200,000
Number [...]
Of families and money in China
Millionaires in Hong Kong: 74,000
Millionaires in Hong Kong, 2009: 100,000+
Number of Chinese nationals who subsist on less than US$1/day: 1 in 7 (200 million)
Number of rural children termed “leftovers” because at least one parent has migrated to the city: 22 million
Chinese women who tried to commit suicide in 2005: 1.5 million (150 thousand succeeded).
Chinese cities [...]
Shopping in the house of Saud
Over 3.2 million foreign tourists and 6.8 million domestic tourists travelled in the kingdom during the first half of 2005, with domestic trips spending 6.724 billion Saudi riyals: 39% on shopping, 16% on accommodation and 14 percent on transport. Tourists came primarily from Egypt, Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar and the UAE. Source: wire reports
The Hamburger Standard
The Economist has, for 20 years, somewhat whimsically measured the purchasing power of individual countries by comparing the price of a Big Mac in US dollars.
Average price of a Big Mac, USA: US$3.10
Most expensive places: Iceland ($6.37), Denmark ($4.77)
Cheapest places: China ($1.31), Malaysia ($1.52), Hong Kong ($1.55), Thailand ($1.56), Indonesia ($1.57), Philippines ($1.62), Russia ($1.77), [...]
Vision 2025 Progress
Before Wycliffe announced Vision 2025,
it would have completed a Scripture in every language still needing it by 2150.
Now, Wycliffe is on track to complete by: 2038.
Most of the remaining need for translation is in:
Central Africa (Nigeria, Cameroon, CAR): 800 languages
North India to South China: another 800 languages
Asian islands (Sumatra to Papua New Guinea): 1,000 languages
Source: [...]
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