World of Statistics

Current Valuation:

Claude $965B 🇺🇲

ChatGPT $888B 🇺🇲

AstroTalk $1.5B 🇮🇳 👀

🇰🇵 Even in North Korea, someone’s parked in your spot.

Pyongyang’s once-empty streets are now packed with cars, creating the country’s first real traffic jams and parking shortages.

• New laws allow private car ownership
• Chinese brands (Chery, Geely, Changan) dominate
• Hotels, markets, and bowling alleys are suddenly full of vehicles
• Satellite images show a dramatic increase in just two years

⚽️ The 1994 World Cup hosted by the USA remains #1 in history for both total attendance (3,587,538) and average attendance per match (68,991).

The final at the Rose Bowl drew 94,194 fans as Brazil beat Italy on penalties.

Still the gold standard 32 years later! 🇺🇸

Water area by country (square km):

🇨🇦 Canada - 891,163
🇷🇺 Russia - 719,836
🇺🇸 USA - 685,924
🇮🇳 India - 314,073
🇨🇳 China - 270,550
🇮🇷 Iran - 116,600
🇨🇴 Colombia - 100,210
🇮🇩 Indonesia - 93,000
🇦🇺 Australia - 58,459
🇧🇷 Brazil - 55,352
🇦🇷 Argentina - 43,710
🇸🇪 Sweden - 40,152
🇫🇮 Finland - 34,330
🇻🇪 Venezuela - 30,000
🇵🇰 Pakistan - 25,223
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan - 25,200
🇺🇦 Ukraine - 24,250
🇺🇿 Uzbekistan - 22,000
🇻🇳 Vietnam - 21,140
🇲🇽 Mexico - 20,430
🇳🇴 Norway - 19,520
🇧🇩 Bangladesh - 14,252
🇹🇷 Turkey - 13,930
🇯🇵 Japan - 13,430
🇳🇬 Nigeria - 13,000
🇰🇪 Kenya - 11,227
🇬🇭 Ghana - 11,000
🇸🇴 Somalia - 10,320
🇩🇪 Germany - 8,350
🇰🇬 Kyrgyzstan - 8,150
🇮🇹 Italy - 7,200
🇪🇸 Spain - 6,390
🇪🇬 Egypt - 6,000
🇿🇦 South Africa - 4,620
🇳🇿 New Zealand - 4,395
🇿🇼 Zimbabwe - 3,910
🇳🇵 Nepal - 3,830
🇹🇼 Taiwan - 3,720
🇹🇭 Thailand - 2,230
🇵🇭 Philippines - 1,830
🇬🇧 UK - 1,680
🇸🇾 Syria - 1,550
🇮🇪 Ireland - 1,390
🇨🇭 Switzerland - 1,280
🇵🇱 Poland - 791
🇮🇱 Israel - 440
🇰🇷 South Korea - 301
🇵🇸 Palestine - 220
🇸🇮 Slovenia - 120
🇸🇬 Singapore - 10
🇰🇵 North Korea - 2
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia - 0

Note: Water area: the sum of the surface areas of all inland water bodies (lakes, reservoirs, and rivers) within international boundaries and coastlines. Coastal internal waters may be included. Territorial seas are not included unless otherwise noted. Contiguous zones and exclusive economic zones are not included.

👨‍⚕️ Types of Doctors

Doctor of Heart - Cardiologist
Doctor of Skin - Dermatologist
Doctor of Bone - Orthopedic
Doctor of Brain - Neurologist
Doctor of Child - Pediatrician
Doctor of Eyes - Ophthalmologist
Doctor of Teeth - Dentist
Doctor of Kidney - Nephrologist
Doctor of Surgery - Surgeon
Doctor of Cancer - Oncologist
Doctor of Mind - Psychiatrist
Doctor of Liver - Hepatologist
Doctor of Women - Gynaecologist
Doctor of Stomach - Gastroenterologists
Doctor of Ears - Otolaryngologist
Doctor of Lungs - Pulmonologist
Doctor of Animals - Veterinarian

Spain's military budget increased 50% in a single year, from 2024 to 2025.

It crossed the 2% of GDP threshold for the first time since 1994.

Every single NATO member except Malta increased military spending in 2024.

Europe is rearming at a pace not seen since the early 1950s.

The World’s Happiest Cities 2026 😊

1. 🇩🇰 Copenhagen
2. 🇫🇮 Helsinki
3. 🇨🇭 Geneva
4. 🇸🇪 Uppsala
5. 🇯🇵 Tokyo
6. 🇳🇴 Trondheim
7. 🇨🇭 Bern
8. 🇸🇪 Malmö
9. 🇩🇪 Munich
10. 🇩🇰 Aarhus
11. 🇨🇭 Zurich
12. 🇪🇸 Barcelona
13. 🇫🇮 Espoo
14. 🇳🇴 Oslo
15. 🇳🇱 The Hague
16. 🇦🇺 Ballarat
17. 🇩🇰 Aalborg
18. 🇯🇵 Yokohama
19. 🇨🇭 Lugano
20. 🇮🇸 Reykjavik
21. 🇸🇪 Jönköping
22. 🇸🇬 Singapore
23. 🇫🇷 Grenoble
24. 🇩🇪 Stuttgart
25. 🇫🇷 Paris
26. 🇰🇷 Seoul
27. 🇩🇪 Bremen
28. 🇸🇪 Stockholm
29. 🇳🇱 Leiden
30. 🇧🇪 Antwerp
31. 🇳🇴 Bergen
32. 🇵🇱 Warsaw
33. 🇦🇹 Vienna
34. 🇳🇱 Nijmegen
35. 🇦🇺 Maitland
36. 🇩🇪 Berlin
37. 🇳🇴 Stavanger
38. 🇸🇪 Gothenburg
39. 🇨🇦 Vancouver
40. 🇦🇹 Klagenfurt
41. 🇫🇮 Turku
42. 🇧🇪 Ghent
43. 🇳🇱 Amsterdam
44. 🇹🇼 New Taipei City
45. 🇺🇸 San Francisco
46. 🇹🇼 Taipei City
47. 🇬🇧 Edinburgh
48. 🇬🇧 London
49. 🇰🇷 Incheon
50. 🇬🇧 Cambridge

Source: Happy City Index 2026

🇨🇳 China consumes 46% of cigarettes in the entire world at a rate of 2.4 trillion a year.

🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia population

1960: 2.4 million
1980: 6.0 million
2000: 16.2 million
2020: 31.5 million
2025: 34.5 million

Top toughest exams in the world:

🇨🇳 China → Gaokao Exam
🇮🇳 India → IIT JEE Exam
🇮🇳 India → UPSC Exam
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 England → Mensa
🇺🇸🇨🇦 US/Canada → GRE
🇺🇸🇨🇦 US/Canada → CFA
🇺🇸 US → CCIE
🇮🇳 India → GATE
🇺🇸 US → USMLE
🇺🇸 US → California Bar Exam

Literacy rate:

🇹🇩 Chad: 27%
🇧🇫 Burkina Faso: 34%
🇲🇱 Mali: 31%
🇸🇸 South Sudan: 35%
🇦🇫 Afghanistan: 37%
🇨🇫 CAR: 37%
🇳🇪 Niger: 38%
🇬🇳 Guinea: 45%
🇪🇹 Ethiopia: 52%
🇵🇰 Pakistan: 58%
🇳🇬 Nigeria: 62%
🇳🇵 Nepal: 71%
🇪🇬 Egypt: 75%
🇧🇩 Bangladesh: 75%
🇮🇳 India: 76%
🇩🇿 Algeria: 81%
🇰🇪 Kenya: 83%
🇮🇶 Iraq: 86%
🇸🇾 Syria: 86%
🇮🇷 Iran: 89%
🇿🇦 South Africa: 90%
🇮🇱 Israel: 92%
🇧🇷 Brazil: 95%
🇲🇽 Mexico: 95%
🇮🇩 Indonesia: 96%
🇵🇭 Philippines: 96%
🇹🇷 Turkey: 97%
🇨🇳 China: 97%
🇦🇷 Argentina: 97%
🇴🇲 Oman: 97%
🇸🇦Saudi Arabia: 98%
🇦🇪 UAE: 98%
🇶🇦 Qatar: 98%
🇰🇷 South Korea: 99%
🇷🇸 Serbia: 99%
🇪🇸 Spain: 99%
🇮🇹 Italy: 99%
🇷🇺 Russia: 100%
🇺🇦 Ukraine: 100%
🇵🇱 Poland: 100%
🇰🇵 North Korea: 100%

Note: The share of adults aged 15 and older who can both read and write. Figures are rounded.

According to World Bank (2023)

Cities with the most billionaires in 2024:

🇺🇸 New York: 119
🇬🇧 London: 97
🇮🇳 Mumbai: 92
🇨🇳 Beijing: 91
🇨🇳 Shanghai: 87
🇨🇳 Shenzhen: 84
🇨🇳 Hong Kong: 65
🇷🇺 Moscow: 59
🇮🇳 New Delhi: 57
🇺🇸 San Francisco: 52
🇹🇭 Bangkok: 49
🇹🇼 Taipei: 45
🇫🇷 Paris: 44
🇨🇳 Hangzhou: 43
🇸🇬 Singapore: 42
🇨🇳 Guangzhou: 39
🇮🇩 Jakarta: 37
🇧🇷 Sao Paulo: 37
🇺🇸 Los Angeles: 31
🇰🇷 Seoul: 31

According to Hurun Global Rich List 2024

🤖 The cost of training AI:

Transformer (Google): $930
BERT-Large (Google): $3,288
RoBERTa Large (Meta): $160k
LaMDA (Google): $1.3M
Llama 2 70B (Meta): $3.9M
GPT-3 175B (davinci) (OpenAI): $4.3M
Megatron-Turing NLG 530B (Microsoft / NVIDIA): $6.4M
PaLM (540B) (Google): $12.4M
GPT-4 (OpenAI): $78.3M
Gemini Ultra (Google): $191.4M

According to The AI Index Report

The happiest countries in the world:

1. Finland 🇫🇮
2. Denmark 🇩🇰
3. Iceland 🇮🇸
4. Israel 🇮🇱
5. Netherlands 🇳🇱
6. Sweden 🇸🇪
7. Norway 🇳🇴
8. Switzerland 🇨🇭
9. Luxembourg 🇱🇺
10. New Zealand 🇳🇿
.
12. Australia 🇦🇺
13. Canada 🇨🇦
15. USA 🇺🇸
16. Germany 🇩🇪
19. UK 🇬🇧
21. France 🇫🇷
24. Romania 🇷🇴
26. UAE 🇦🇪
30. Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦
32. Spain 🇪🇸
33. Italy 🇮🇹
36. Mexico 🇲🇽
39. Poland 🇵🇱
44. Kazakhstan 🇰🇿
47. Japan 🇯🇵
49. Brazil 🇧🇷
52. Argentina 🇦🇷
57. South Korea 🇰🇷
64. China 🇨🇳
70. Russia 🇷🇺
76. Philippines 🇵🇭
84. Indonesia 🇮🇩
85. South Africa 🇿🇦
88. Venezuela 🇻🇪
92. Ukraine 🇺🇦
95. Nigeria 🇳🇬
101. Iran 🇮🇷
106. Turkey 🇹🇷
108. Pakistan 🇵🇰
118. Bangladesh 🇧🇩
121. Egypt 🇪🇬
126. India 🇮🇳
137. Afghanistan 🇦🇫

According to World Happiness Report

World’s leaders approval rating:

🇷🇺 Vladimir Putin: 79%
🇮🇳 Narendra Modi: 77%
🇺🇦 Volodymyr Zelenskyy: 73%
🇲🇽 Andrés López: 64%
🇨🇭 Alain Berset: 57%
🇧🇷 Lula da Silva: 51%
🇦🇺 Anthony Albanese: 46%
🇮🇹 Giorgia Meloni: 44%
🇮🇪 Leo Varadkar: 40%
🇪🇸 Pedro Sánchez: 39%
🇺🇸 Joe Biden: 39%
🇧🇪 Alexander De Croo: 35%
🇵🇱 Mateusz Morawiecki: 33%
🇸🇪 Ulf Kristersson: 31%
🇨🇦 Justin Trudeau: 30%
🇬🇧 Rishi Sunak: 29%
🇫🇷 Emmanuel Macron: 28%
🇳🇴 Jonas Gahr Støre: 27%
🇳🇱 Mark Rutte: 26%
🇩🇪 Olaf Scholz: 26%
🇦🇹 Karl Nehammer: 24%
🇰🇷 Yoon Seok-youl: 20%
🇯🇵 Fumio Kishida: 19%
🇨🇿 Petr Fiala: 18%

According to Morning Consult Political Intelligence, WCIOM, KMIC

Where men sit down to wee (% of men):

🇩🇪 Germany: 40%
🇦🇺 Australia: 25%
🇸🇪 Sweden: 22%
🇩🇰 Denmark: 19%
🇫🇷 France: 19%
🇨🇦 Canada: 16%
🇪🇸 Spain: 14%
🇮🇹 Italy: 13%
🇺🇸 USA: 10%
🇵🇱 Poland: 10%
🇬🇧 UK: 9%
🇲🇽 Mexico: 6%
🇸🇬 Singapore: 5%

*times where you go to the toilet to ONLY urinate

According to YouGov data analytics firm

Annual electric power consumption (kWh per capita):

🇮🇸 Iceland: 53,832
🇳🇴 Norway: 23,000
🇨🇦 Canada: 15,588
🇫🇮 Finland: 15,250
🇸🇪 Sweden: 13,480
🇺🇸 USA: 12,994
🇦🇪 UAE: 11,563
🇰🇷 South Korea: 10,497
🇦🇺Australia: 10,071
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia: 9,048
🇦🇹 Austria: 8,356
🇯🇵 Japan: 7,820
🇩🇪 Germany: 7,035
🇫🇷 France: 6,940
🇳🇱 Netherlands: 6,713
🇷🇺 Russia: 6,603
🇩🇰 Denmark: 5,859
🇪🇸 Spain: 5,356
🇬🇧 UK: 5,130
🇮🇹 Italy: 5,002
🇿🇦 South Africa: 4,184
🇨🇳 China: 3,905
🇺🇦 Ukraine: 3,419
🇦🇷 Argentina: 3,075
🇹🇷 Turkiye: 2,815
🇧🇷 Brazil: 2,611
🇲🇽 Mexico: 2,186
🇪🇬 Egypt: 1,592
🇨🇺 Cuba: 1,448
🇮🇩 Indonesia: 1,084
🇮🇳 India: 797
🇵🇰 Pakistan: 420
🇧🇩 Bangladesh: 317
🇰🇪 Kenya: 167
🇳🇬 Nigeria: 142
🇳🇪 Niger: 51
🇭🇹 Haiti: 40

🌍 World: 3,105

According to IEA Statistics © OECD/IEA

Where same-sex marriage is legal:

2001: Netherlands 🇳🇱

2003: Belgium 🇧🇪

2005: Canada 🇨🇦, Spain 🇪🇸

2006: South Africa 🇿🇦

2009: Norway 🇳🇴, Sweden 🇸🇪

2010: Argentina 🇦🇷, Iceland 🇮🇸, Portugal 🇵🇹

2012: Denmark 🇩🇰

2013: Brazil 🇧🇷, France 🇫🇷, New Zealand 🇳🇿, Uruguay 🇺🇾

2014: Luxembourg 🇱🇺, UK 🇬🇧

2015: Ireland 🇮🇪, USA 🇺🇸

2016: Colombia 🇨🇴, Greenland 🇬🇱

2017: Australia 🇦🇺, Malta 🇲🇹, Germany 🇩🇪, Finland 🇫🇮

2019: Austria 🇦🇹, Ecuador 🇪🇨, Taiwan 🇹🇼

2020: Costa Rica 🇨🇷, Northern Ireland

2022: Switzerland 🇨🇭, Slovenia 🇸🇮, Cuba 🇨🇺, Mexico 🇲🇽, Chile 🇨🇱

2023: Andorra 🇦🇩

2024: Estonia 🇪🇪

Note: Same-sex marriage will become legal in Estonia on 1 January 2024.

Most followed accounts on 𝕏:

1. 🇺🇸Elon Musk: 162.5 million
2. 🇺🇸Barack Obama: 132m
3. 🇨🇦Justin Bieber: 111.6m
4. 🇵🇹Cristiano Ronaldo: 110.2m
5. 🇧🇧Rihanna: 108.5m
6. 🇺🇸Katy Perry: 107.1m
7. 🇺🇸Taylor Swift: 94.7m
8. 🇮🇳Narendra Modi: 93.0m
9. 🇺🇸Donald Trump: 87.4m
10. 🇺🇸Lady Gaga: 83.8m
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13. 🇺🇸 NASA: 77.9m
16. 🇺🇸 𝕏: 67.1m
42. 🇺🇸 NBA: 44.8m
43. 🇮🇳 Shah Rukh Khan: 43.8m
55. 🇺🇸 Joe Biden: 37.6m
65. 🇺🇸 POTUS: 33.4m
66. 🇺🇸 Instagram: 33.2m
69. 🇺🇸 SpaceX: 32.1m
75. 🇺🇸 Google: 30.9m
102. 🇺🇸 MrBeast: 24.6m
136. 🇺🇸 Tesla: 21.2m
155. 🇵🇰 Imran Khan: 19.9m
349. 🇺🇸 Joe Rogan: 11.9m
436. 🇺🇸 Tucker Carlson: 10.6m
928. 🇺🇸 jack: 6.4m
2,246. 🇺🇸 World of Statistics: 3.4m
2,565. 🇺🇸 Lex Fridman: 3.1m
2,622. 🇺🇸 World of Engineering: 3.1m
23,247. 🇺🇸 Linda Yaccarino: 0.55m