Global Facts & Figures: Eye-Opening Realities in Today's World

1. Did you know?

2. That for every 10 California high school freshman

3. only 2 graduate from college.

5. Did you know?

6. If you’re one in a million in China . . .

7. there are 1,300 people just like you.

8. In India, there are 1,100 people just like you.

9. The 25 percent of the population in China with the highest IQs . . .

10. is greater than the total populationof North America.

11. In India, it’s the top 28 percent.

12. Translation for teachers:they have more honor students than we have students.

13. Did you know?

14. China will soon become the number one English-speaking countryin the world.

15. If you took every single jobin the U.S. today and shipped it to China . . .

16. it still would have a labor surplus.

17. During the course of this presentation . . .

18. 60 babies will be born in the U.S. • 244 babies will be born in China. • 351 babies will be born in India.

19. The U.S. Department of Labor estimates that today’s learner will have 10 to 14 jobs . . .

20. by age 38.

21. According to the U.S. Department of Labor . . .

22. 1 out of 4 workers today is working for a company for whom they have been employed less than 1 year.

23. More than 1 out of 2 are working for a company for whom they have worked less than 5 years.

24. Only 22 percent of California jobs require a bachelors degree or higher

25. According to former Secretary of Education Richard Riley . . .

26. the top 10 jobs that will be in demand in 2010 didn’t exist in 2004.

27. We are currently preparing students for jobs that don’t yet exist . . .

28. using technologies that haven’t yet been invented . . .

29. in order to solve problemswe don’t even knoware problems yet.

30. Name this country . . .

31. Richest in the world • Largest military • Center of world business and finance • Strongest education system

32. World center of innovation and invention • Currency the world standard of value • Highest standard of living

33. England

34. in 1900.

35. Did you know?

36. The U.S. is 20th in the world in broadband Internet penetration (Luxembourg is ahead of us).

37. In 2002, Nintendo invested more than $140 million in research and development.

38. The U.S. federal government spent less than half as muchon research and innovation in education.

39. 1 of every 8 couples married in the U.S. in 2006 met online.

40. There are over 106 millionregistered users of MySpace (as of September 2006).

41. If MySpace were a country,it would be the 11th-largestin the world (between Japan and Mexico).

42. The average MySpace page is visited 30 times a day.

43. Did you know?

44. We are living in exponential times.

45. There are over 2.7 billion searches performed on Google each month.

46. To whom were these questions addressed B.G.(before Google)?

47. The number of text messages sent and received every day exceeds the population of the planet.

48. There are about 540,000 words in the English language . . .

49. about 5 times as many as during Shakespeare’s time.

50. More than 3,000 new books are published . . .