Vitalstatistics

Friday, Nov. 28th, 2008 Ibex: +0.65%
08.12
Extracts from this weeks statistics

There are now 40 Million people HIV infected world wide.
25000 of them live in Switzerland.

Zurich's Bahnhofstrasse ranks no. 8 on the worlds most expensive shopping streets, measured by rent paid by square meter. New York's Fifth Avenue is still top of the bill.

Two third of all seventeen year old girls at Swiss schools had sex.
One out of three before they were fourteen.

Almost half the world — over 3 billion people — live on less than $2.50 a day.
The GDP (Gross Domestic Product) of the 41 Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (567 million people) is less than the wealth of the world’s 7 richest people combined.

Ten percent of the registered population in Switzerland lives on an income below the poverty line, which is set at CHF 2.300 per month for a person living in a single household.

California has the world 7th largest economy. Did you know this?

Nearly a billion people entered the 21st century unable to read a book or sign their names.
Less than one per cent of what the world spent every year on weapons was needed to put every child into school by the year 2000.
Yet, it didn’t happen.

An estimated 1.3 billion people smoke.
84% of all smokers live in developing and transitional economy countries.
Most people start smoking before the age of 18; almost a quarter of these individuals begin using tobacco before the age of 10 47.5% of all men smoke compared to 10.3% of women. Tobacco is the fourth most common risk factor for fatal diseases worldwide.

A Swiss district court sentenced a former member of the management of Bank Leumi to eight years imprisonment. He had misappropriated over one hundred million Swiss Francs.

Driving a car and operate a mobile phone at the same time increases the chance of a road accident by a factor eight, even when a hands-free set is used. The effect is just as distracting and resembles driving under considerable influence of alcohol.

The Danish are the happiest people in Europe. Second and third come the Swedish and the Finns.
The Macedonians are the most unhappy, closely followed by the Hungarians and Bulgarians.
The survey had left the Swiss out.