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Why is life expectancy so long in Hong Kong? Life expectancy in Hong Kong is 84.23 years, more than five years longer than the US and the highest in the world. Hong Kong is not that wealthy (median household income is $38,000 USD); it’s somewhat polluted; people don’t obviously eat what seems like a healthy diet; and they don’t seem to exercise a g... See more
Tyler Cowen • Work on these things - Marginal REVOLUTION
Wild stat: Finland has 3.3 million saunas for a population of 5.6 million (a sauna for every two people).
One of my favorite business stats today is that Tesla has never spent money on advertising.
In 1993, there were just 23,000 websites and less than 40 million users. In 2018, there are roughly a billion websites, and more than three billion users.
Jack Self • THE BIG FLAT NOW: Power, Flatness, and Nowness in the Third Millennium
On-demand audio listening time (think podcasts) crossed linear audio listening (think radio) for the first time in 2023.
Target think they will lose $500m of profit from theft in 2023, known in retail parlance as “shrinkage”. [MarketWatch]
The first digital ad was displayed in 1994 on hotwired.com — the ad had a click-through rate of 44%, compared to an average of 0.46% for online display ads last year.
this guy is worth $110 bn dollars
Young people report higher levels of stress than their older counterparts. Nearly 6 in 10 respondents in the 35 to 44 years of age category reported high or very high levels of stress (58%), while less than one-quarter (23%) of respondents in the 55-plus age group reported experiencing the same upper levels of stress.
Source: Stress Management f... See more