The goal of the world simulation will be to create the world as it is today. To do this, we need to know the world's current condition. Let's use the space below to post verified and legitimate statistics about our world. If you have reason to question any of the stats below, please start a thread (below this page) so we can discuss it. (Note: each verified statistic you post will be worth one extra credit point. You can also receive one point for disproving or challenging a stat already posted.)

Philip Anderson
1. throughout history, about one trillion varrels of oil have been
produced in the entire world.
2. 1.6 percent of the world's oil and natural gas reserves are controlled by U.S. energy companies (the total amount of reserves managed by all investor-owned companies is just six percent
3. worldwide, livestock production occuppies 70% of all land used for agriculture, or 30% of the ice-free land surface of the earth.
4. scientists arrticute more than 18% of anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions to livestock and livestock-related activities such as deforestation and increasingly fuel-intensive farming practices.
5. there are more than 1.6 billion obese and overweight individuals worldwide, which in fact doubles the amount of people who are suffering from famine, malnutrition and starvation.


Emily Taussig
GDP (purchasing power parity): $13.86 trillion (2007 est.)
GDP (official exchange rate): $13.75 trillion (2007 est.)
GDP - real growth rate: 2% (2007 est.)
GDP - per capita (PPP): $46,000 (2007 est.)
GDP - composition by sector: agriculture: 0.9% industry: 20.6% services: 78.5% (2007 est.)
Labor force: 153.1 million (includes unemployed) (2007 est.)
Labor force - by occupation: farming, forestry, and fishing 0.6%, manufacturing, extraction, transportation, and crafts 22.6%, managerial, professional, and technical 35.5%, sales and office 24.8%, other services 16.5%
Unemployment rate: 4.6% (2007 est.)
Population below poverty line: 12% (2004 est.)
Household income or consumption by percentage share: lowest 10%: 2% highest 10%: 30% (2007 est.)
Inflation rate (consumer prices): 2.7% (2007 est.)
Investment (gross fixed): 15.6% of GDP (2007 est.)
Budget: revenues: $2.568 trillion expenditures: $2.731 trillion (2007 est.)
Public debt: 36.8% of GDP (2007 est.)
http://www.theodora.com/wfbcurrent/united_states/united_states_economy.html

Emily Taussig
The US has the largest and most technologically powerful economy in the world, with a per capita GDP of $45,700. In this market-oriented economy, private individuals and business firms make most of the decisions, and the federal and state governments buy needed goods and services predominantly in the private marketplace. US firms are at or near the forefront in technological advances, especially in computers and in medical, aerospace, and military equipment; their advantage has narrowed since the end of World War II. Since 1975, practically all the gains in household income have gone to the top 20% of households. The war in March-April 2003 between a US-led coalition and Iraq, and the subsequent occupation of Iraq, required major shifts in national resources to the military. The rise in GDP in 2004-07 was under girded by substantial gains in labor productivity. Hurricane Katrina caused extensive damage in the Gulf Coast region in August 2005, but had a small impact on overall GDP growth for the year. Soaring oil prices in 2005-2007 threatened inflation and unemployment, yet the economy continued to grow through year-end 2007. Imported oil accounts for about two-thirds of US consumption. Long-term problems include inadequate investment in economic infrastructure, rapidly rising medical and pension costs of an aging population, sizable trade and budget deficits, and stagnation of family income in the lower economic groups. The merchandise trade deficit reached a record $847 billion in 2007. Together, these problems caused a marked reduction in the value and status of the dollar worldwide in 2007.
http://www.theodora.com/wfbcurrent/united_states/united_states_economy.html

Meaghan Doran
-In 2006, 2.6 billion people, or 40% of the world’s population, lived on less than $2 a day, with 1 billion of them surviving on the margins of subsistence with less than $1 a day. -Between 1970 and 2000 the under-5 mortality rate worldwide fell from 96 to 56 per 1,000 live births
-In 2000, 1.1 billion people lacked access to safe water, and 2.4 billion did not have access to any form of improved sanitation services.
-The proportion of the world's extremely poor fell from 29% in 1990 to 23% in 1999
-As of 2007, only 28 countries, representing 13% of the world's population, are fully democratic. 54 countries, representing 38.3% of the world's population are flawed democracies; 30 are hybrid regimes; and 55, or 38.2% of the world's population, are authoritarian regimes.
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0904677.htm

Jordyn Storey
1. 2.2 million children die each year because they are not immunized
2. Approximately half the world’s population now live in cities and towns. In 2005, one out of three urban dwellers (approximately 1 billion people) was living in slum conditions.
3. Around 27-28 percent of all children in developing countries are estimated to be underweight or stunted. The two regions that account for the bulk of the deficit are South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa.
4. The GDP (Gross Domestic Product) of the 41 Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (567 million people) is less than the wealth of the world’s 7 richest people combined.
5. 20% of the population in the developed nations, consume 86% of the world’s goods.
http://www.globalissues.org/TradeRelated/Facts.asp


EmilyEgger

-The poorest 40 percent of the world’s population accounts for 5 percent of global income. The richest 20 percent accounts for three-quarters of world income.

-Rural areas account for three in every four people living on less than US$1 a day and a similar share of the world population suffering from malnutrition. However, urbanization is not synonymous with human progress. Urban slum growth is outpacing urban growth by a wide margin.

-Indoor air pollution resulting from the use of solid fuels [by poorer segments of society] is a major killer. It claims the lives of 1.5 million people each year, more than half of them below the age of five: that is 4000 deaths a day. To put this number in context, it exceeds total deaths from malaria and rivals the number of deaths from tuberculosis.

-For every $1 in aid a developing country receives, over $25 is spent on debt repayment

-The wealthiest nation on Earth has the widest gap between rich and poor of any industrialized nation.

http://www.globalissues.org/TradeRelated/Facts.asp

Joseph M. Cooper
-UNDP calculates that an annual 4 percent levy on the world's 225 most well-to-do people (average 1998 wealth: $4.5 billion) would suffice to provide the following essentials for all those in developing countries: adequate food, safe water and sanitation, basic education, basic health care and reproductive health care. At present, 160 of those individuals live in OECD countries; 60 reside in the United States.
-The modest net worth of white families is 8 times that of African-Americans and 12 times that of Hispanics. The median financial wealth of African-Americans (net worth less home equity) is $200 (one percent of the $18,000 for whites) while that of Hispanics is zero.
-Business Week reports that in 1999 top executives earned 419 times the average wage of a blue-collar worker, up from 326:1 in 1998. In 1980, the ratio was 42:1.
-The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) reported in 1998 that the world's 225 richest people now have a combined wealth of $1 trillion. That's equal to the combined annual income of the world's 2.5 billion poorests people.
-While global GNP grew 40 percent between 1970 and 1985 (suggesting widening prosperity), the number of poor grew by 17 percent....
statistics found at: http://www.globalpolicy.org/socecon/inequal/gates99.htm


Aimee Hobbs
- there are 25 "mega-cities" in our world (mega-cities contian over 10 million people), most of them are in the developing world. By 2015, 33 cities are expected to be "mega-cities", exponentially growing with time.
-these cities take up 2% of the land, but use a much larger area for resources. ex: London uses 60 times it own area to supply its 9 million inhabitants
-80% of deaths in mega cities in developing countires are attributed to pollution; exposre to toxic poolution is anywhere from 2 to 8 times higher than the World Health Organization guidelines
- 20% of the world population ( 1 billion) does not have regular access to clean running water; mthe resources used by "mega-cities" is putting an even greater strain on this resource.
-As urban population grows, rural popultion decreases, putting a greater strain on our vital resources like water, energy, fuel, ect...also causing much more polution and also not using the earth for subsistence.
http://www.emagazine.com/view/?2849

Stephanie Mars
1. 2000 people die in Darfur every single day.
2. The U.S.'s total aid pledges for Darfur are $220 million..which is pretty insignificant comparedto the $417billion dollar war budget.
3.The European Union has contributed more than $270 million in aid, “about twice as much as the US”.
http://www.countercurrents.org/sudan-dixon160804.htm
4. Humans now use between 40% and 50% of all available freshwater running off the land
5.Because of human demand for food, fresh water, timber, fibre and fuel, more land has been claimed for agriculture in the last 60 years than in the 18th and 19th centuries combined.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2005/mar/30/environment.research

Abbey Heikes
About 400 billion gallons water is used worldwide each day
Aluminum cans take 500 years to break down.
www.wonderfulinfo.com/wininfo/earth3.htm

Lauren Anderson:
1,227,355- water consumed this year (billion liters)
1,349,095,277- people with no access to safe drinking water
3,487,373,544- energy consumed this year
3,229,912- deaths of children under the age of five this year
1,845,670- deaths caused by cancer this year
(all of this comes from http://www.worldometers.info/)

Rachel Manry:
as of 4/16/08 at 3:34pm- world population: 6,663,393,509, births today: 230,585, births this year: 37,856,874, deaths this year: 15,566,479, deaths today: 94,887
http://www.worldometers.info/

Jayme Rezac-- Death rate: 8.37 deaths/1,000 population, Sex ratio (at birth): 1.07 males/females, Infant mortality rate: 43.52 deaths/1,000 live births Land use: Arable land: 13.31%. Permanent crops: 4.71%. Other: 81.98% Irrigated land: 2,770,980 sq km (1,721,886 sq mi), Exports: $13.87 trillion f.o.b. Imports: $13.81 trillion f.o.b (http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0004372.html)


Madeline Miller
Deaths from global warming will double in just 25 years -- to 300,000 people a year.—World Health Organization

Erin Fisher

• The United States maintained its position as top arms dealer to developing nations in 2006 with $10.3 billion in weapons sales.

http://www.infoplease.com/world/statistics/arms-sales-developing-nations.html

• Civilians have accounted for more than 90% of the casualties—either injured or killed—in post-cold war conflicts.
• Ninety countries are affected by landmines and unexploded ordinance, with rough estimates of 15,000 to 20,000 mine victims each year.
• The United States has a carbon footprint five times that of China, and over 15 times that of India.
• The 23 million residents of the US state of Texas emit more carbon dioxide than the entire population of sub-Saharan Africa, which is 720 million people.

http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0904677.html

Natalie Exposito

• 192 countries in the UN today
• 3.001 billion in the labor force
• 78.9 bbl of oil-production per day.
• 32,345,165 km total of roadways today
• 671,886 km of waterways today

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/print/xx.html


Collin Mangus
928,201 Deaths caused by smoking this year
1,629,182 Cigarrettes produced this year
4,641,045 Babies by teenagers this year
1,411 U.S. spending on perfume this year (US$ Millions)
30,928,315 HIV infected people
http://www.worldometers.info/

Brittany Dixon
3,347,600 Forest lost this year
4,370,500 Desert Land formed due to mismanagement this year
19,039 People died of hunger today
3,254,626 Deaths of children under the age of five
80,064 Automobile accident fatalities this year



Jodie Sager

-53% of people die in their sleep
-We waste 10 gallons of oil a day because of motor cars
-50-70% say that they have cheated on a partner
-The average person eats 4.7 lbs of food a day

In the Asian, African and Latin American countries, well over 500 million people are living in what the World Bank has called "absolute poverty"

Every year 15 million children die of hunger

For the price of one missile, a school full of hungry children could eat lunch every day for 5 years

Throughout the 1990's more than 100 million children will die from illness and starvation. Those 100 million deaths could be prevented for the price of ten Stealth bombers, or what the world spends on its military in two days!

The World Health Organization estimates that one-third of the world is well-fed, one-third is under-fed one-third is starving- Since you've entered this site at least 200 people have died of starvation. Over 4 million will die this year. http://library.thinkquest.org/C002291/high/present/stats.htm


Stefanie Aulgur
-There are an estimated 11 million illegal immigrants living in the United States and an estimated 200,000 illegal immigrants residing in Canada. http://www.dosomething.org/tipsheet/8_facts_about_immigration
-39.4 million people are living with HIV/AIDS.
http://www.nhpco.org/files/public/worldwidefacts.pdf
-Today China has the largest population in the world with 1,328,326,065 people while the U.S is in 3rd with 303,315,827 people.
http://www.geohive.com/earth/population1.aspx
- Japan has the greatest life expectancy for a woman which is 86 years. Iceland has the greatest life expectancy for a man which is 80 years.
http://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic/products/socind/health.htm
-The oldest country is San Marino dating back to 301 AD.
http://www.worldatlas.com/geoquiz/thelist.htm

Sydney Miller

~~For every $1 in aid a developing country receives, over $25 is spent on debt repayment.

~~20% of the population in the developed nations, consume 86% of the world’s goods.

~~Approximately 790 million people in the developing world are still chronically undernourished, almost two-thirds of whom reside in Asia and the Pacific.

~~Nearly a billion people entered the 21st century unable to read a book or sign their names

~~The poorest 40 percent of the world’s population accounts for 5 percent of global income. ~~The richest 20 percent accounts for three-quarters of world income

~~Around 27-28 percent of all children in developing countries are estimated to be underweight or stunted. The two regions that account for the bulk of the deficit are South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa.

(All of my information was found at http://www.globalissues.org/TradeRelated/Facts/asp)

Kelly Harrison
- 26,500 children die every day because of poverty, hunger, or easily preventable diseases and illnesses.
- About 0.13% of the world’s population controlled 25% of the world’s assets in 2004
- In the US, the top 1% receives more money than the bottom 40%
- Over 9 million people die worldwide each year because of hunger and malnutrition. 5 million are children.
- The direct medical cost of hunger and malnutrition is estimated at $30 billion each year.
http://www.globalissues.org/TradeRelated/Poverty/Hunger/Causes.asp
http://www.globalissues.org/TradeRelated/Poverty/death/
http://www.globalissues.org/TradeRelated/PovertyAroundTheWorld.asp


Caleb Matousek
- 3,629,629 Forests lost this year (Hectares)
- 4,738,748 Destert Land Formed due to mismanagement this year (acres)
- 5,973,600,000 Earth's mass, in millions of trillions (quadrillions) of Kg
- 41,571,894 Tons of Live Being biological waste, total
-29,239,561 Tons of caught fish this year
(all from http://www.worldometers.info/)