Facts & Trends

About 25 percent of the world's population, or 1.6 billion people, do not have electricity in their homes ...

Nearly 10,000 desperate refugees were rescued from overcrowded boats in the Mediterranean this week, a record high, but another 400 are believed to have drowned when one of the boats sank, also a record.  Most of the migrants were from ...

For every deceased person who is buried, four are now cremated ...

Percentage of U.S. children in 1960 who lived in households headed by heterosexuals in their first marriage: 73 Who do today: 46 ...

Yearly odds of an adult being hit by lightning: 1 in 1 million ...

From 2000 to 2013, advertising revenue for America's newspapers fell $40 billion—from $63.5 billion to $23 billion, according to a new report by the Brookings Foundation. At the same time, Google's ad revenue has soared to $57.9 billion ...

"When women are depressed, they either eat or go shopping.  Men invade another country." - Elayne Boosler ...

The Pew Research Center asked people in 40 countries if it was necessary to believe in God to be moral. Here is a sample of those who said it was: 95% - Egypt 86% - Brazil 53% - U.S. 14% - ...

Percentage of the world's 25 largest news organizations that have been targeted by state-backed hackers: 84 ...

Save the Children ranked 72 developing countries by the strength of their health systems and found that many fell below the nations worst hit by Ebola. Here are the five most vulnerable: 1 - Somalia 2 - Chad 3 - ...