Here are some interesting statistics.
- There are more trees on Earth than there are stars in the Milky Way. According to estimates, there are 3 trillion trees on our planet, while there are "only" 400 billion stars in the Milky Way.
- Germany has the lowest percentage of children in the world. Only 12% of the population is under 14, the majority between the ages of 25 and 54.
- China is the world's largest gold producer. Over the past 10 years, China has produced approximately 440 tons of gold annually.
- Over the course of your life, you walk the equator 4.5 times on average. Calculating 7,500 steps a day for 80 years, that's a whopping 180,000 km in a lifetime.
- Americans watch an average of 4 hours of TV a day.
- Ninety percent of emails sent worldwide are spam. Eighteen percent of these emails are sent from the United States, followed by Turkey (9%), and Russia (8%).
- McDonald's sells 75 burgers every second. The company even has a website that tracks all sales of its individual products in real time.
- Bangladesh has more people than Russia. Yes, Russia has 144 million people, while Bangladesh has nearly 165 million, spread across 147,570 km2, about 116 times smaller than Russia.