Statistics for World Statistics - Up or Down?

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Question	Answer	% Correct
Global obesity rate	Up	91%
Carbon dioxide in the atmosphere	Up	89%
Annual worldwide deaths due to AIDS	Down	88%
Life expectancy in Africa	Up	86%
U.S. government debt as a percent of GDP	Up	86%
Percentage of people living in Germany who were born in a different country	Up	84%
Drug overdose death rate in the U.S.	Up	84%
Adult smoking rate in the U.S.	Down	76%
Population of Japan	Down	70%
Teenage birth rate in the U.S.	Down	69%
Per-capita European Union CO₂ emissions	Down	61%
Number of nuclear weapons in the world	Down	46%
Global coal production	Up	36%
Number of bald eagles in the United States	Up	33%
Los Angeles air pollution	Down	31%