Statistics Stories 12/01/23
Fatal crashes in the US involving young drivers have declined by 38%, from 2002 to 2021.
Worldwide, 30 billion tons of concrete are used for construction, emitting enormous amounts of carbon into the atmosphere. If the cement industry was a country, it would be the third-largest carbon emitter in the world after China and the US.
To offset inflation, Social Security is providing a COLA of 3.2% beginning in January, raising the cumulative COLA since 2020 to nearly 19%.
In the US, each year about 3 million people over 65 are hospitalized because of injuries from falls - 38,742 of them died in 2021, an increase of 7.6% over the number of deaths in 2020.
The US estimates that worldwide 48,800 women and girls were killed by family members or intimate partners in 2022, which equates to 133 such femicides a day.
New HIV infections have declined 38% from 2010, to 1,300,000 in 2022. Click Here to see the details.