Facts & Figures.....
My latest book purchase was this little gem from The Economist...
I am probably the world’s worst mathematician, however statistics and lists of figures fascinate me…a few (actually far more than a few!) statistics for you…
Population
Hong Kong ranks 9th with the highest female populations - 89 males per 100 females; China on the other hand ranks 14th in the list of highest male populations (106 males per 100 females)…must be something in the water.... The 14 countries before china are predominantly Muslim countries…with one rather unusual exception….in descending order UAE, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, Oman, Saudi, Greenland (?!), Jordan, Afghanistan, Andorra, Brunei, Faroe Islands and Libya.
Hong Kong ranks second only to Macau in having the lowest fertility rates in the world…Macau with 0.84 children per woman and Hong Kong with 0.94….HKG’s fearless leader, no not China…no not Disney….the other one…the guy with the bow tie….he was obviously barking up the right tree when he told Hong Kong’s female population to go forth and multiply…three times over…. Singapore’s breeding plan is racing ahead however with 1.35 children per woman.
More Singaporeans marry (6.3 marriages per 1,000 people) compared to HKG (3.9 marriages per 1,000 people) and yet both HKG and Singapore are equal on the divorce front with 1.8 divorces per 1,000 population….you wouldn’t want to be living in Aruba…they have the highest number of divorces in the world with 5.3 divorces per 1,000 population
City Living
…largest cities in the world by population…1st Tokyo with 35million; 18th Moscow – 10.5m, Manila – 10.4m, 27th London – 7.6m, 30th HKG – 7m, 38th Baghdad – 5.6m, 47th Toronto – 4.9m….
Leading the charge in the list of the highest proportion of a country’s population residing in a single city are – in joint first place…HKG & Singapore with obviously 100% of the population living in the one city…..4th place Beirut – 49.1% of the Lebanese population lives in Beirut…
Transport
Here’s where HKG goes right in at the top of the list – Most crowded road network….with HKG having 286.7 vehicles ‘per km of road network’…, Qatar comes second with 283.6 vehicles per km …but whenever I see pictures of the roads in Qatar they are empty…the cars must be all parked at home in the garages! Most used road network 1st – Indonesia, 2nd HKG and Qatar doesn’t even figure on the list…so my theory could be right! In the league of car ownership…Lebanon comes in highest at 732 cars per 1,000 people (dare I say it is because they keep setting fire the cars on the street….?) and China comes in at the bottom with 6.7 cars per 1000 people. Another great achievement for HKG – we feature on the list of most accidents…granted in 12th position (equal with Morocco) with 176 people injured ‘per 100m vehicle km (now there’s a stat they never taught me at school!)..Malawi comes in 1st on that list with 2,730 people injured…
The most air travel….US 1st with 1,142,984 million passengers per km per year….Japan 2nd, UK 3rd…and HKG at 7th place (that’s because everyone’s going to Taipei!!)
HKG comes second in the list of busiest cargo airports – shifting 3.13m tonnes of cargo per year…second only to Memphis which is the home base of UPS (which may help that stat)…busiest airports for passengers (in descending order) Atlanta, Chicago O’Hare and LHR…busiest airport of flight movements (again descending order) Chicago O’Hare, Atlanta, Dallas Ft Worth, …with LHR coming in 15th after Frankfurt!!
Are you bored yet…
Tourism….
France has the most tourist arrivals with 75m, followed by Spain with 51.8m, Hong Kong is in 12th place with 15.5m arrivals and Saudi ranks in 23rd place with 7.3m tourists compared to Singapore in 31st place with 5.7m arrivals….scary that more people want to go to Sodding Arabia than Singapore (although am guessing that the Hajj figures would skew that in favour of SA).
Health…
Diabetes…HK has the 4th highest occurrence of diabetes (amongst people aged 20-79), after (in ascending order) Saudi, Trinidad and Tobago and Mexico. Cambodia spends 12% of its GDP on healthcare, second only to the US which spends 14.6% of its GDP on healthcare
Up to now, the Philippines hasn’t really figured on any tables…but now we hit the Media section…the average Filipino spends 21 hours a week watching TV, second only to Thailand where they spend 22.4 hours a week in front of the box.. However there is slight redemption in the fact that the average Filipino spends 7.6 hours a week reading…India is top with 10.7 hours a week followed by Thailand and China….Hong Kong comes in at 12th position and the UK and the US don’t even figure in the top 17 countries. Filipinos also spend more time on the internet (9.8 hours a week) than the average Brit or American who come in at only 8.8 hours a week. The Taiwanese lead the list on internet usage with 12.6 hours a week (they’re probably all on the net trying to figure out how to get out of Taiwan to avoid all the people arriving in Taipei!).
Communications
Obviously the citizens of Luxembourg are concerned that in their tiny little country they may loose touch with the rest of the world..or indeed their own countryfolk….They have the highest number of mobile telephone subscribers - 119.4 per 100 people and the highest number of telephone lines – 79.8 per 100 people. Hong Kong comes 3rd in the list of mobile telephones (107.9 per 100 people) and comes 15th on the number of telephone lines (55.9 per 100 people). Possibly the people in Luxembourg are all talking about their money – they have the highest GDP per head and the highest purchasing power
Alcohol
…all that money and phoning people obviously requires some serious alcohol consumption in Luxembourg…with the average citizen consuming 66.1 litres per head (am assuming that is in a year…) and 12.6 litres of pure alcohol per head….both stats put them in the top position, however they only rank 5th in the beer drinking scale.
Now here’s a statistic that must show that it’s all in how you categorise things…Crime…in the list of total recorded crimes per 100,000 population…Iceland is at the top, followed by Sweden and then in 3rd place is the UK (11,014) and the US ranks in 17th place with (4,119).
There are a few countries out there with a fear of invasion that seems slightly out of proportion to possible reality….The Oman spends 11.6% of its GDP on defence…2nd only to North Korea which spends 25% of its GDP on defence…Singapore comes in at 18th position (5.2%) and in the list of 28 countries shown…the US, UK and China don’t register…
I think that’s enough info for one day….!!!!
I am probably the world’s worst mathematician, however statistics and lists of figures fascinate me…a few (actually far more than a few!) statistics for you…
Population
Hong Kong ranks 9th with the highest female populations - 89 males per 100 females; China on the other hand ranks 14th in the list of highest male populations (106 males per 100 females)…must be something in the water.... The 14 countries before china are predominantly Muslim countries…with one rather unusual exception….in descending order UAE, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, Oman, Saudi, Greenland (?!), Jordan, Afghanistan, Andorra, Brunei, Faroe Islands and Libya.
Hong Kong ranks second only to Macau in having the lowest fertility rates in the world…Macau with 0.84 children per woman and Hong Kong with 0.94….HKG’s fearless leader, no not China…no not Disney….the other one…the guy with the bow tie….he was obviously barking up the right tree when he told Hong Kong’s female population to go forth and multiply…three times over…. Singapore’s breeding plan is racing ahead however with 1.35 children per woman.
More Singaporeans marry (6.3 marriages per 1,000 people) compared to HKG (3.9 marriages per 1,000 people) and yet both HKG and Singapore are equal on the divorce front with 1.8 divorces per 1,000 population….you wouldn’t want to be living in Aruba…they have the highest number of divorces in the world with 5.3 divorces per 1,000 population
City Living
…largest cities in the world by population…1st Tokyo with 35million; 18th Moscow – 10.5m, Manila – 10.4m, 27th London – 7.6m, 30th HKG – 7m, 38th Baghdad – 5.6m, 47th Toronto – 4.9m….
Leading the charge in the list of the highest proportion of a country’s population residing in a single city are – in joint first place…HKG & Singapore with obviously 100% of the population living in the one city…..4th place Beirut – 49.1% of the Lebanese population lives in Beirut…
Transport
Here’s where HKG goes right in at the top of the list – Most crowded road network….with HKG having 286.7 vehicles ‘per km of road network’…, Qatar comes second with 283.6 vehicles per km …but whenever I see pictures of the roads in Qatar they are empty…the cars must be all parked at home in the garages! Most used road network 1st – Indonesia, 2nd HKG and Qatar doesn’t even figure on the list…so my theory could be right! In the league of car ownership…Lebanon comes in highest at 732 cars per 1,000 people (dare I say it is because they keep setting fire the cars on the street….?) and China comes in at the bottom with 6.7 cars per 1000 people. Another great achievement for HKG – we feature on the list of most accidents…granted in 12th position (equal with Morocco) with 176 people injured ‘per 100m vehicle km (now there’s a stat they never taught me at school!)..Malawi comes in 1st on that list with 2,730 people injured…
The most air travel….US 1st with 1,142,984 million passengers per km per year….Japan 2nd, UK 3rd…and HKG at 7th place (that’s because everyone’s going to Taipei!!)
HKG comes second in the list of busiest cargo airports – shifting 3.13m tonnes of cargo per year…second only to Memphis which is the home base of UPS (which may help that stat)…busiest airports for passengers (in descending order) Atlanta, Chicago O’Hare and LHR…busiest airport of flight movements (again descending order) Chicago O’Hare, Atlanta, Dallas Ft Worth, …with LHR coming in 15th after Frankfurt!!
Are you bored yet…
Tourism….
France has the most tourist arrivals with 75m, followed by Spain with 51.8m, Hong Kong is in 12th place with 15.5m arrivals and Saudi ranks in 23rd place with 7.3m tourists compared to Singapore in 31st place with 5.7m arrivals….scary that more people want to go to Sodding Arabia than Singapore (although am guessing that the Hajj figures would skew that in favour of SA).
Health…
Diabetes…HK has the 4th highest occurrence of diabetes (amongst people aged 20-79), after (in ascending order) Saudi, Trinidad and Tobago and Mexico. Cambodia spends 12% of its GDP on healthcare, second only to the US which spends 14.6% of its GDP on healthcare
Up to now, the Philippines hasn’t really figured on any tables…but now we hit the Media section…the average Filipino spends 21 hours a week watching TV, second only to Thailand where they spend 22.4 hours a week in front of the box.. However there is slight redemption in the fact that the average Filipino spends 7.6 hours a week reading…India is top with 10.7 hours a week followed by Thailand and China….Hong Kong comes in at 12th position and the UK and the US don’t even figure in the top 17 countries. Filipinos also spend more time on the internet (9.8 hours a week) than the average Brit or American who come in at only 8.8 hours a week. The Taiwanese lead the list on internet usage with 12.6 hours a week (they’re probably all on the net trying to figure out how to get out of Taiwan to avoid all the people arriving in Taipei!).
Communications
Obviously the citizens of Luxembourg are concerned that in their tiny little country they may loose touch with the rest of the world..or indeed their own countryfolk….They have the highest number of mobile telephone subscribers - 119.4 per 100 people and the highest number of telephone lines – 79.8 per 100 people. Hong Kong comes 3rd in the list of mobile telephones (107.9 per 100 people) and comes 15th on the number of telephone lines (55.9 per 100 people). Possibly the people in Luxembourg are all talking about their money – they have the highest GDP per head and the highest purchasing power
Alcohol
…all that money and phoning people obviously requires some serious alcohol consumption in Luxembourg…with the average citizen consuming 66.1 litres per head (am assuming that is in a year…) and 12.6 litres of pure alcohol per head….both stats put them in the top position, however they only rank 5th in the beer drinking scale.
Now here’s a statistic that must show that it’s all in how you categorise things…Crime…in the list of total recorded crimes per 100,000 population…Iceland is at the top, followed by Sweden and then in 3rd place is the UK (11,014) and the US ranks in 17th place with (4,119).
There are a few countries out there with a fear of invasion that seems slightly out of proportion to possible reality….The Oman spends 11.6% of its GDP on defence…2nd only to North Korea which spends 25% of its GDP on defence…Singapore comes in at 18th position (5.2%) and in the list of 28 countries shown…the US, UK and China don’t register…
I think that’s enough info for one day….!!!!
posted by Madame Chiang at 6:10 am
3 Comments:
Some interesting figures!
I was reading that the high proportion of males in China is partly due to the one child policy:
"Data from the in depth fertility survey for 1979-84, when the policy was at its most stringent, put the male: female ratio of reported births at 115:100 in rural Hebei and 116:100 in Shaanxi. This compares with an expected ratio at birth of 106:100 in China.8 The reasons for the imbalance related to not reporting female births, female infanticide, sex selective abortion, and unreported adoption of baby girls."
http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/314/7095/1685
PS Hello! Another HK blog for your list if you'd like one - http://couldtry.livejournal.com
I was being facetious (about a very serious subject) with the comment about the water...unfortunately I am well aware of the reasons for the high % of the male population.
Thanks for the link.
Oh, I hope it didn't look like I thought you were serious about the water! :-) You don't seem anywhere near that silly!
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