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World Statistics - Up or Down?
Try to guess whether each of these objective statistical measures has increased or decreased since the year 2000.
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Last updated: January 12, 2024
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Life expectancy in Africa
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Between 2000–2021, African life expectancy increased from 53.3 to 61.7. Source.
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Carbon dioxide in the atmosphere
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From 2000–2023, CO2 in the atmosphere increased by about 14%. Source.
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U.S. government debt as a percent of GDP
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Debt increased from 57% to 121% of GDP between 2000–2023. Source.
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Teenage birth rate in the U.S.
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The teen birth rate declined by 65% between 2000–2019. Source.
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Per-capita European Union CO2 emissions
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Per capita CO2 emissions declined by 22% between 2000–2019. Source.
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Los Angeles air pollution
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Between 2000–2022, the number of "unhealthy" days declined from 175 to 94. Source
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Percentage of people living in Germany who were born in a different country
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Increased from 11% to 14.9% between 2000–2015. Source.
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Number of bald eagles in the United States
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No exact source but the increase has been large
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Population of Japan
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A small decline of 3% between 2000–2024, but the decline is accelerating. Source.
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Drug overdose death rate in the U.S.
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Increased by over 350% between 2000–2020. Source.
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This is entirely due to China, India, and a handful of other countries. Coal production in the developed world has fallen by huge amounts.
Nr 2,3,7 and 15 are definitely negative. And the coal one too, regardless of if you are for or against using fossile fuel. A big increase is never better. A decrease would be better.
The root cause is more speculative.
By "Worldwide deaths due to AIDS," I have to assume the intended stat is the annual number of deaths due to AIDS (or something like that).
Because the way it's phrased, it could be interpreted as asking for the total number of deaths, which very clearly can only have gone up.
In a sense, yes, I'm being pedantic, and you could make the argument that "well, it's clear from context what is meant" but on the other hand: it is a trivia website. "Pedantry? Well gawrsh, Mickey!" Also: it feels like a tiny tweak that's easy to do and won't reset the stats or anything, so why not?
Personally, I think (in the U.S.) we need to rise the child tax deduction to at least $50,000/year per child. That's not a typo. Maybe $100,000/year. We need to encourage our most productive citizens to have WAY more children and small measures aren't going to cut it.
Hungary is trying something similar. It will be interesting to see how it works. In my opinion, the fertility crisis is the #1 or #2 largest issue facing humanity right now (the other being AI).
And for any one taking this opportunity to say OvErPoPulAtIoN no, thats not it, Malthus. World population will decline and the green revolution has kinda been workin so far. Learn DTM. Biggest threat is ai
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2021/11/19/growing-share-of-childless-adults-in-u-s-dont-expect-to-ever-have-children/
While I don't know much about how this stuff work, I'm not sure how effective a tax deduction (even a huge one) would be for the many adults who do not want kids outright. Notably only 17% of the adults who didn't see themselves ever have kids cited financial reasons.
Maybe you wouldn't need to incentivize these people though; maybe such a huge tax deduction would be enough to incentivize those who do have kids to have more, to the extent that the crisis is resolved.
The "fire at will" thing is overstated. Sure, it exists in theory for most non-government jobs. However, in practice, the hassle and expense of litigation means that most professional employers are reluctant to terminate unless it can be done in a litigation-free way like layoffs.
However, if you're working a hospitality or retail job you're pretty screwed.
But European fertility is even worse than the U.S.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_Arms_Limitation_Talks
It has been incredibly successful.
Thousands of nukes were dismantled. In fact, since the 1980s, decommissioned nuclear weapons have been a major source of uranium used in nuclear power plants.
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