World of Statistics

Year founded: 🇮🇹 University of Bologna: 1088 🇬🇧 Oxford: 1096 🇬🇧 Cambridge: 1209 🇺🇸 Harvard: 1636 🇨🇦 University of Toronto: 1827 🇨🇭 ETH Zurich: 1855 🇺🇸 Massachusetts Institute of Tech: 1861 🇺🇸 California Institute of Tech: 1891 🇺🇸 Stanford: 1891 🇬🇧 Imperial College London: 1907

America's drivers cover a combined 2.6 trillion miles annually.

Cats spend 66% of their life asleep.

More than 50% of people in Niger under the age of 15.

TOP 10 LARGEST COUNTRIES BY POPULATION: China 🇨🇳 1,453,749,250 India 🇮🇳 1,415,767,226 USA 🇺🇸 336,066,012 Indonesia 🇮🇩 281,162,730 Pakistan 🇵🇰 232,496,560 Nigeria 🇳🇬 220,150,375 Brazil 🇧🇷 216,514,823 Bangladesh 🇧🇩 169,015,149 Russia 🇷🇺 146,095,197 Mexico 🇲🇽 132,509,468

Global Vehicle Sales by Country in 2022 1.🇨🇳China: 26,864,000 2.🇺🇸USA: 13,828,337 3.🇮🇳India: 4,367,964 4.🇯🇵Japan: 4,167,590 5.🇩🇪Germany: 2,874,828 6.🇧🇷Brazil: 1,953,557 7.🇬🇧UK: 1,896,259 8.🇫🇷France: 1,874,805 9.🇰🇷South Korea: 1,652,305 10.🇨🇦Canada: 1,551,409

About 40% of the ants in an ant colony are "lazy" and spend most of their time just sitting around.

US national debt today: thirty-one trillion five hundred twenty billion five hundred fifty million one hundred seventeen thousand seven hundred forty dollars ($31,520,550,117,740)

Companies with the most US patents granted: 2022: Samsung 2021: IBM 2020: IBM 2019: IBM 2018: IBM 2017: IBM 2016: IBM 2015: IBM 2014: IBM 2013: IBM 2012: IBM 2011: IBM 2010: IBM 2009: IBM 2008: IBM 2007: IBM 2006: IBM 2005: IBM 2004: IBM 2003: IBM 2002: IBM 2001: IBM 2000: IBM

The 3 most common languages in the world are Mandarin Chinese, Spanish and English.

There are more than 6,000 dogs registered to come to work with Amazon employees at the company's Seattle office.

SpaceX is going for 100 launches in 2023, it’s ~ 2 launches per week. SpaceX successful orbital missions: 2022 - 61 2021 - 31 2020 - 26 2019 - 13 2018 - 21 2017 - 18

The top 5 fastest growing technology areas by patent grants: 1. Autonomous vehicles 2. Electrical digital data processing 3. Drilling technologies for oil/gas/water 4. Computing based on biological models 5. Electrical smoking devices

50% of Facebook Messenger's voice traffic comes from Cambodian users because the Khmer language is so difficult to type.

Most U.S. patents received in 2021: IBM: 8,682 Samsung: 6,366 Canon: 3,021 Taiwan Semi: 2,798 Huawei: 2,770 Intel: 2,615 Apple: 2,541 LG: 2,487 Microsoft: 2,418 Qualcomm: 2,149 BOE Technology: 2,135 Toyota: 2,028 Samsung Display: 1,975 Amazon: 1,942

Most U.S. patents received in 2022: Samsung: 6,248 IBM: 4,398 Taiwan Semiconductor: 3,024 Huawei: 2,836 Canon: 2,694 LG: 2,641 Qualcomm: 2,625 Intel: 2,418 Apple: 2,285 Toyota: 2,214 BOE Technology Group: 2,795 Samsung Display: 2,106 Micron Technology: 1,920 Amazon: 1,863

Tesla vehicles sold each year: 2023: 2,000,000 (estimate) 2022: 1,313,851 2021: 936,222 2020: 499,550 2019: 367,500 2018: 245,240 2017: 103,097 2016: 76,295 2015: 50,580 2014: 31,655 2013: 22,477 2012: 2,650 2011: 0

The average person could fill as many as 23 2-liter bottles with the amount of saliva they produce in a month.

World's top 10 richest people: 1.🇫🇷 Bernard Arnault: $190b 2.🇺🇸 Elon Musk: $146b 3.🇺🇸 Jeff Bezos: $120b 4.🇮🇳 Gautam Adani: $113b 5.🇺🇸 Bill Gates: $111b 6.🇺🇸 Warren Buffett: $108b 7.🇺🇸 Larry Ellison: $100b 8.🇺🇸 Larry Page: $89b 9.🇺🇸 Steve Ballmer: $86b 10.🇲🇽 Carlos Slim: $85b