[englishtext]This topic is for numbers, I hope all the members to add their numbers if they have,
Here some of what I have, of course I took them from TIME weekly.

1/3 Portion of the 150 spices of fish once found in china's Yellow River now believed to be extinct from effects of industrial pollution and over-fishing.
155 million Number of people who depend on the Yellow River as their major source of water.

400,000 Number of employees that the government of Libya plans to lay off to trim the budget and gin up private enterprise.
3 Years each worker will continue to get paid, or he an take up to $40,800 in loans to start a business.
$ 3 billion Cost of the Libyan government payroll in 2006.

345,000 Number of people worldwide who died of measles in 2005 \, down 60 % from 1999, beating a goal set by the United Nations.

52 Number of times reconciliation was used in Iraq Study Group's report
1 Number of times civil war appeared in the document.
0 Times war on terror was used.

$12 million Price an Auto Union D-Type, a rare 1939 German race car, is expected to sell for auction in Paris.
$100,000 Amount Adolf Hitler paid to commission the car's design in 1933.

$1 billion Amount Israeli businessman Avi Shaked has offered to pay Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniya if he reaches a peace accord with Israel.
$100 million Amount Shaked says he would give if the Palestinian and Israeli Premiers simply sit down to talk.

40% Proportion of the world's wealth possessed by richest 1% of the population, according to a recent U.N study.
1% Proportion of global wealth possessed by the poorest half of the world's population.

34,452 Number of Iraqis killed last year, according to the first count of individual deaths by the United Nation.
12,896 Violent deaths tallied in 2006 by the Iraqi government.

118 Number of boys for every 100 girls born in China in 2005, up from 110 in 2000, according to newly released data.
15 Number of years before China will have 30 million more men than women.

320,000 Number of passports issued in the first week of 2007, a record, by the U.S State Department in advance of the Jan. 23 deadline that requires a passport for travel between the U.S and Canada, Mexico and the Caribbean.
27% Portion of U.S citizens with passports.

$363.32 Amount a judge ordered Naomi Campbell to pay in restitution for throwing a cell phone at her maid's head.
2 Number of days the model has to spend in anger-management classes.

$100 billion Amount that the new budget proposed by U.S President Bush would save over five years of trimming Medicare and Medicaid.
$100 billion Additional funding Bush is seeking for Iraq and Afghanistan for fiscal 2008, on top of $ 70 billion already requested this year.

12 Pairs of socks a Turkish hosier gave World Bank president Paul Wolfowitz after he was caught wearing holey socks at a photo op at a Turkish mosque.
$391,440 Wolfowitz 's salary, according to the banks most recent annual report.

114 Age of the world's oldest living person.
28,000 Approximate number of Japanese who are 100 years or older _ up from 1,000 in the early 1980s.

107 Age of Chan Chi, a Hong Kong villager and former chef, who partly attributes his longevity to sexual abstinence.
6 Decades Chan has been living a sexless life, as a result of the death of his bride during World War II

233 Estimated amount, in tons, of ivory poached worldwide last year.
23,000 Number of elephants that were killed illegally to reap ivory.
$156 Cost per kilo of ivory on the black market, up from $23 about 20 years ago. [/englishtext]

[englishtext]More numbers:

3 The number of half-hour naps a person should take at work each week in order to lower the risk of heart-related death, according to a new study.
$150 billion Estimated amount, due to lost productivity, that fatigue costs U.S. businesses each year.

$25 million Prize that Virgin Group chairman Richard Branson will pay the first scientist who
comes up with a system for extracting greenhouse gases from the atmosphere.
$975,000 Fine that companies would pay for causing environmental disaster, under a new law proposed I the European Parliament.

379 Number of homicides committed in Houston, Texas, in 2006, a 12-year high and a 13.5% increase over 2005.
148,000 Jump in Houston's 2006 population, due largely to Hurricane Katrina evacuees. Houston's mayor cited the influx as a major reason for the crime surge.

1 in 5 Number of children aged 10 t0 16 who are either overweight or clinically obese in Delhi, one of India's most prosperous areas.
1 in 3 Number of Indians children under the age of 3 who are clinically underweight due to malnutrition.

47 Number of coal miner death in the U.S. in 2006, a 10-year high, reversing an 80-year trend of steady decreases.

$38,000 Amount a Chinese court ordered a local genetic drug company to pay Pfizer for infringing on its patent for Viagra.
90% Share of Viagra sold in Shanghai that is counterfeit.

50 Years until ocean seafood will be virtually extinct, at current rates of over-fishing and pollution, according to a study by marine biologists.
2040 Year the effects of global warming could cause the Arctic Ocean to be mostly water _ instead of icebergs _ in the summer.

300 million Estimated U.S. population as of October.
2043 Year the 400 millionth American is expected to be born or naturalized.

3,278 U.S. military deaths in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan since 2001, as of Dec. 15.
$502 billion Amount the U.S. has spent in the war on terrorism.

7.5 million Number of Ford Tauruses made in the sedan's 21-year life span, which ended Oct. 27.
38,000 Ford employees who agreed this year to retire early or take a buyout in restructuring effort by the company, which does not expect to be profitable until '09. [/englishtext]

thank you
Sheba really it's a nice topic
sorry , I don't have numbers

khazoom, Try to have

Sheba,
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