50 facts that should change the world by Williams, Jessica, journalist instant download

50 facts that should change the world by Williams, Jessica, journalist instant download

Includes bibliographical references (pages 304-329) and index, The average Japanese woman can expect to live to be 84. The average Botswanan will reach just 39 -- A third of the world's obese people live in the developing world -- The US and Britain have the highest teen pregnancy rates in the developed world -- China has 44 million missing women -- Brazil has more Avon ladies than members of its amed services -- Eighty-one per cent of the world's executions in 2002 took place in just three countries: China, Iran and the USA -- British supermarkets know more about their customers than the British government does -- Every cow in the European Union is subsidised by $2.50 a day. That's more than what 75 per cent of Africans have to live on -- In more than 70 countries, same-sex relationships are illegal. In nine countries, the penalty is death -- One in five of the world's people lives on less than $1 a day -- More than 12,000 women are killed each year in Russia as a result of domestic violence -- In 2001, 13.2 million Americans had some form of plastic surgery -- Landmines kill or maim at least one person every hour -- There are 44 million child labourers in India -- People in industrialised countries eat between 13 and 15 pounds of food additives every year -- The golfer Tiger Woods is the world's highest-paid sportsman. He earns $78 million a year -- or $148 every second -- Seven million American women and 1 million American men suffer from an eating disorder -- Nearly half of British fifteen-year-olds have tried illegal drugs and nearly a quarter are regular cigarette smokers -- There are 67,000 people employed in the lobbying industry in Washington DC -- 125 for each elected member of Congress -- Cars kill two people every minute -- Since 1977, there have been nearly 80,000 acts of violence or disruption at abortion clinics in North America -- More people can identify the golden arches of McDonald's than the Christian cross -- In Kenya, bribery payments make up…