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A timeline of world population growth milestones (people):

Year -5000: 5 million
Year -1000: 50 million
Year 600: 200 million
Year 1000: 275 million
Year 1500: 450 million
Year 1650: 500 million
Year 1750: 700 million
Year 1804: 1 billion
Year 1930: 2 billion
Year 1950: 2.5 billion
Year 1960: 3 billion
Year 1974: 4 billion
Year 1987: 5 billion
Year 1998: 6 billion
Year 2010: 7 billion
Year 2022: 8 billion
Year 2037: 9 billion*
Year 2058: 10 billion*

*UN projection

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How much you should tip restaurant staff:

🇺🇸 USA: 20%
🇨🇦 Canada: 15-20%
🇳🇴 Norway: 10-20%
🇲🇽 Mexico: 15%
🇦🇷 Argentina: 10-15%
🇷🇺 Russia: 10-15%
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia: 10-15%
🇦🇪 UAE: 10-15%
🇮🇱 Israel: 12%
🇪🇸 Spain: 10%
🇫🇷 France: 10%
🇬🇷 Greece: 10%
🇮🇹 Italy: 10%
🇪🇬 Egypt: 10%
🇰🇪 Kenya: 10%
🇸🇪 Sweden: 10%
🇿🇦 South Africa: 10%
🇹🇷 Turkey: 10%
🇺🇾 Uruguay: 10%
🇬🇧 UK: 10%
🇺🇦 Ukraine: 10%
🇮🇳 India: 7-10%
🇳🇱 Netherlands: 5-10%
🇩🇪 Germany: 5-10%
🇮🇩 Indonesia: 5-10%
🇻🇪 Venezuela: 5-10%
🇻🇳 Vietnam: 5-10%
🇧🇩 Bangladesh: 2-10%
🇦🇺 Australia: 0%
🇨🇳 China: 0%
🇩🇰 Denmark: 0%
🇯🇵 Japan: 0%
🇳🇬 Nigeria: 0%
🇸🇬 Singapore: 0%
🇰🇷 South Korea: 0%

Note: suggested tipping amounts were sourced from each country’s TripAdvisor tipping guide and checked against over sources. ‘No tip’ is suggested if tips are only locally suggested for exceptional service or if tipping is uncommon.

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Most spoken languages:

English → 1,132 million
Mandarin Chinese → 1,117m
Hindi → 615m
Spanish → 534m
French → 280m
Standard Arabic → 274m
Bengali → 265m
Russian → 258m
Portuguese → 234m
Indonesian → 199m
Urdu → 170m
Standard German → 132m
Japanese → 128m
Swahili → 98n
Marathi → 95m
Telugu → 93m
Western Punjabi → 93m
Wu Chinese → 82m
Tamil → 81m
Turkish → 80m
Korean → 77m
Vietnamese → 77m
Yue Chinese → 74m
Javanese → 68m
Italian →68m
Egyptian Arabic → 65m
Hausa →63m
Thai → 61m
Gujarati → 61m

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⛽️ Gasoline prices (liter, U.S. Dollar):

🇮🇷 Iran: $0.029
🇱🇾 Libya: $0.031
🇻🇪 Venezuela: $0.035
🇪🇬 Egypt: $0.287
🇰🇼 Kuwait: $0.341
🇩🇿 Algeria: $0.342
🇳🇬 Nigeria: $0.482
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan: $0.554
🇷🇺 Russia: $0.609
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia: $0.621
🇦🇪 UAE: $0.887
🇮🇩 Indonesia: $0.968
🇺🇸 USA: $1.082
🇵🇰 Pakistan: $1.037
🇧🇩 Bangladesh: $1.065
🇦🇷 Argentina: $1.068
🇯🇵 Japan: $1.118
🇧🇷 Brazil: $1.139
🇦🇺 Australia: $1.189
🇨🇳 China: $1.216
🇮🇳 India: $1.248
🇰🇷 South Korea: $1.301
🇹🇷 Turkey: $1.322
🇿🇦 South Africa: $1.366
🇪🇹 Ethiopia: $1.370
��🇦 Canada: $1.389
🇲🇽 Mexico: $1.437
🇺🇦 Ukraine: $1.481
🇨🇱 Chile: $1.534
🇷🇴 Romania: $1.577
🇨🇿 Czechia: $1.749
🇪🇸 Spain: $1.785
🇬🇧 UK: $1.874
🇩🇪 Germany: $1.952
🇮🇪 Ireland: $1.982
🇫🇮 Finland: $2.027
🇫🇷 France: $2.031
🇮🇹 Italy: $2.047
🇳🇴 Norway: $2.086
🇨🇭 Switzerland: $2.092
🇩🇰 Denmark: $2.206
🇳🇱 Netherlands: $2.227
🇲🇨 Monaco: $2.298
🇭🇰 Hong Kong: $3.212

The average price of gasoline around the world is 1.35 U.S. Dollar per liter.

Note: According to Global Petrol Prices, Octane-95, 13-May-2024

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Year founded:

🇫🇮 1865 Nokia
🇯🇵 1875 Toshiba
🇯🇵 1885 Nintendo
🇺🇸 1911 IBM
🇺🇸 1928 Motorola
🇰🇷 1938 Samsung
🇺🇸 1939 HP
🇯🇵 1946 Sony
🇺🇸 1968 Intel
🇺🇸 1975 Microsoft
🇺🇸 1976 Apple
🇺🇸 1984 Dell
🇺🇸 1984 Cisco
🇺🇸 1993 Nvidia
🇺🇸 1994 Amazon
🇺🇸 1997 Netflix
🇺🇸 1998 Google
🇺🇸 1999 Salesforce
🇺🇸 2003 Tesla
🇺🇸 2004 Facebook
🇺🇸 2006 Twitter
🇺🇸 2008 Airbnb
🇺🇸 2009 Uber
🇺🇸 2011 Zoom
🇺🇸 2012 Coinbase
🇨🇳 2016 TikTok

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Where the next 1,000 babies will be born:

🇮🇳India: 172
🇨🇳China: 103
🇳🇬Nigeria: 57
🇵🇰Pakistan: 47
🇨🇩DR Congo: 32
🇮🇩Indonesia: 31
🇺🇸USA: 30
🇪🇹Ethiopia: 25
🇧🇩Bangladesh: 22
🇧🇷Brazil: 22
🇪🇬Egypt: 17
🇹🇿Tanzania: 16
🇲🇽Mexico: 13
🇷🇺Russia: 10
🇫🇷France: 6
🇩🇪Germany: 6
🇨🇴Colombia: 5
🇦🇷Argentina: 5
🇬🇧UK: 5
🇮🇹Italy: 3
🌐Oceania: 5
🌐Others: 368

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Most valuable and strongest retail brands:

1. Amazon 🇺🇸
2. Walmart 🇺🇸
3. Home Depot 🇺🇸
4. Costco 🇺🇸
5. Lowe’s 🇺🇸
6. CVS 🇺🇸
7. Taobao 🇨🇳
8. Target 🇺🇸
9. Tmall 🇨🇳
10. Walgreens 🇺🇸
11. JD. com 🇨🇳
12. Lidl 🇩🇪
13. Sam’s Club 🇺🇸
14. IKEA 🇸🇪
15. Tesco 🇬🇧
16. 7-Eleven 🇯🇵
17. Aldi Süd 🇩🇪
18. Publix 🇺🇸
19. Carrefour 🇫🇷
20. Woolworths 🇦🇺

According to Brand Finance

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Number of years it took each product to gain 50 million users:

Airlines: 68 years
Cars: 62 years
Telephones: 50 years
Credit Card: 28 years
TV: 22 years
Computers: 14 years
Internet: 7 years
PayPal: 5 years
YouTube: 4 years
Facebook: 3 years
Twitter: 2 years
WeChat: 1 year
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PornHub: 19 days

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Countries to achieve one trillion $ GDP:

1969: 🇺🇸USA
1978: 🇯🇵Japan
1986: 🇩🇪Germany
1988: 🇫🇷France
1990: 🇮🇹Italy 🇬🇧UK
1998: 🇨🇳China
2004: 🇨🇦Canada 🇪🇸Spain
2006: 🇰🇷South Korea 🇧🇷Brazil
2007: 🇮🇳India 🇲🇽Mexico 🇷🇺Russia
2008: 🇦🇺Australia
2017: 🇮🇩Indonesia
2021: 🇳🇱Netherlands
2022: 🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia
2023: 🇹🇷 Turkey

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Age when their business started:

🇺🇸 Bill Gates (Microsoft) - 19
🇺🇸 Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook) - 19
🇺🇸 Walt Disney (Disney) - 21
🇺🇸 Steve Jobs (Apple) - 21
🇮🇳 Ritesh Agarwal (OYO) - 22
🇺🇸 Bill Clerico (WePay) - 22
🇺🇸 Jack Dorsey (Twitter) - 23
🇺🇸 Larry Page (Google) - 25
🇺🇸 Sergey Brin (Google) - 25
🇮🇳 Dhirajlal Ambani (Reliance) - 25
🇨🇳 Jack Ma (Alibaba) - 29
🇺🇸 Elon Musk (SpaceX) - 30
🇺🇸 Jeff Bezos (Amazon) - 30
🇺🇸 Oprah Winfrey (Harpo) - 32
🇺🇸 Estée Lauder (Estée Lauder) - 38
🇺🇸 Henry Ford (Ford) - 39
🇺🇸 Vera Wang (Vera Wang) - 40
🇺🇸 Jeffrey Brotman (Costco) - 40
🇺🇸 Robert Noyce (Intel) - 41
🇫🇷 Christian Dior (Dior) - 41
🇺🇸 John Warnock (Adobe) - 42
🇺🇸 Ralph Roberts (Comcast) - 43
🇺🇸 Donald Fisher (The Gap) - 44
🇺🇸 Sam Walton (Walmart) - 44
🇺🇸 Bob Parsons (GoDaddy) - 47
🇯🇵 Yoshisuke Aikawa (Nissan) - 48
🇮🇪 Tony Ryan (Ryanair) - 48
🇺🇸 Bernie Marcus (Home Depot) - 49
🇺🇸 Gary Burrell (Garmin) - 52
🇨🇭 Henri Nestlé (Nestle) - 52
🇺🇸 Ray Kroc (McDonalds) - 52
🇮🇳 J. C. Mahindra (Mahindra) - 53
🇹🇭 Chaleo Yoovidhya (Red Bull) - 53
🇺🇸 John Pemberton (Coca-Cola) - 54
🇯🇵 Kawasaki Shozo (Kawasaki) - 59
🇺🇸 Charles Flint (IBM) - 61
🇺🇸 Bill Porter (E-trade) - 63
🇺🇸 Colonel Sanders (KFC) - 65

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IMF 2024 growth forecast:

🇮🇳 India: 6.8%
🇨🇳 China: 4.6%
🇳🇬 Nigeria: 3.3%
🇷🇺 Russia: 3.2%
🇺🇸 USA: 2.7%
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia: 2.6%
🇲🇽 Mexico: 2.4%
🇧🇷 Brazil: 2.2%
🇪🇸 Spain: 1.9%
🇨🇦 Canada: 1.2%
🇿🇦 South Africa: 0.9%
🇯🇵 Japan: 0.9%
🇫🇷 France: 0.7%
🇮🇹 Italy: 0.7%
🇬🇧 UK: 0.5%
🇩🇪 Germany: 0.2%

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Traffic index, average travel time per 10 km:

🇬🇧 London: 37 min 20 s
🇮🇪 Dublin: 29 min 30 s
🇨🇦 Toronto: 29 min
🇮🇹 Milan: 28 min 50 s
🇵🇪 Lima: 28 min 30 s
🇮🇳 Bengaluru: 28 min 10 s
🇮🇳 Pune: 27 min 50 s
🇷🇴 Bucharest: 27 min 40 s
🇵🇭 Manila: 27 min 20 s
🇧🇪 Brussels: 27 min
🇮🇹 Rome: 26 min 30 s
🇲🇽 Mexico City: 26 min 30 s
🇯🇵 Sapporo: 26 min 30 s
🇫🇷 Paris: 26 min 30 s
🇨🇴 Bogota: 25 min 30 s
🇺🇸 New York: 24 min 50 s
🇦🇷 Buenos Aires: 24 min 30 s
🇯🇵 Tokyo: 23 min 40 s
🇮🇩 Jakarta: 23 min 20 s
🇧🇷 São Paulo: 23 min
🇵🇱 Lodz: 22 min 10 s
🇩🇪 Berlin: 22 min
🇮🇳 New Delhi: 21 min 40 s
🇦🇺 Sydney: 21 min 30 s
🇦🇹 Vienna: 21 min 30 s
🇫🇮 Helsinki: 21 min 30 s
🇮🇳 Mumbai: 21 min 20 s
🇹🇷 Istanbul: 20 min 40 s
🇺🇸 San Francisco: 20 min 30 s
🇪🇬 Cairo: 20 min 20 s
🇪🇸 Barcelona: 19 min
🇪🇪 Tallinn: 18 min 50 s
🇺🇸 Chicago: 17 min 50 s
🇸🇦 Riyadh: 17 min 40 s
🇳🇱 Amsterdam: 17 min 10 s
🇩🇰 Copenhagen: 17 min
🇿🇦 Cape Town: 15 min 50 s
🇸🇪 Stockholm: 15 min 30 s
🇳🇴 Oslo: 15 min 10 s
🇺🇸 Los Angeles: 15 min
🇸🇮 Ljubljana: 14 min 20 s
🇦🇪 Dubai: 12 min 50 s
🇺🇸 San Diego: 9 min

According to tomtom

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Seats held by women in national parliaments:

Rwanda 🇷🇼: 61%
Cuba 🇨🇺: 53%
UAE 🇦🇪: 50%
Mexico 🇲🇽: 50%
New Zealand 🇳🇿: 49%
Iceland 🇮🇸: 48%
Sweden 🇸🇪: 47%
South Africa 🇿🇦: 47%
Finland 🇫🇮: 46%
Norway 🇳🇴: 45%
Argentina 🇦🇷: 45%
Spain 🇪🇸: 43%
Austria 🇦🇹: 40%
Denmark 🇩🇰: 40%
France 🇫🇷: 40%
Italy ���🇹: 36%
Germany 🇩🇪: 35%
UK 🇬🇧: 34%
Australia 🇦🇺: 31%
Canada 🇨🇦: 30%
USA 🇺🇸: 28%
China 🇨🇳: 25%
Indonesia 🇮🇩: 21%
Ukraine 🇺🇦: 21%
Pakistan 🇵🇰: 20%
Turkey 🇹🇷: 17%
Russia 🇷🇺: 16%
Brazil 🇧🇷: 15%
India 🇮🇳: 14%
Japan 🇯🇵: 10%
Iran 🇮🇷: 6%
Nigeria 🇳🇬: 4%
Yemen 🇾🇪: 0%

According to Inter-Parliamentary Union ( IPU )

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🇬🇧 Most visited websites in United Kingdom in March 2024:

1. google. com
2. youtube. com
3. facebook. com
4. bbc. co. uk
5. twitter. com
6. amazon. co. uk
7. wikipedia. org
8. reddit. com
9. google. co. uk
10. instagram. com
11. ebay. co. uk
12. dailymail. co. uk
13. theguardian. com
14. live. com
15. yahoo. com
16. service. gov. uk
17. office. com
18. gov. uk
19. pornhub. com
20. linkedin. com
21. microsoftonline. com
22. netflix. com
23. rightmove. co. uk
24. xvideos. com
25. xnxx. com
26. tiktok. com
27. sky. com
28. thesun. co. uk
29. independent. co. uk
30. bbc. com
31. mirror. co. uk
32. xhamster. com
33. sharepoint. com
34. telegraph. co. uk
35. microsoft. com
36. express. co. uk
37. whatsapp. com
38. news. sky. com
39. indeed. com
40. paypal. com
41. fandom. com
42. etsy. com
43. itv. com
44. bing. com
45. duckduckgo. com
46. metoffice. gov. uk
47. quora. com
48. imdb. com
49. betfred. com
50. booking. com

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Thefts per 100,000 people:

🇺🇾 Uruguay: 4,228
🇸🇪 Sweden: 3,352
🇩🇰 Denmark: 3,178
🇳🇿 New Zealand: 2,853
🇬🇧 UK: 2,694 (🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 & 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿)
🇦🇺 Australia: 2,332
🇫🇷 France: 2,136
🇫🇮 Finland: 1,954
🇧🇪 Belgium: 1,900
🇳🇴 Norway: 1,729
🇮🇹 Italy: 1,651
🇨🇭 Switzerland: 1,595
🇺🇸 USA: 1,594
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scotland: 1,591
🇨🇦 Canada: 1,420
🇳🇱 Netherlands: 1,372
🇮🇪 Ireland: 1,339
🇩🇪 Germany: 1,302
🇦🇹 Austria: 1,266
🇧🇷 Brazil: 1,052
🇨🇱 Chile: 919
🇵🇹 Portugal: 853
🇦🇷 Argentina: 625
🇨🇿 Czechia: 557
🇷🇺 Russia: 445
🇪🇸 Spain: 360
🇰🇷 South Korea: 345
🇯🇵 Japan: 293
🇲🇽 Mexico: 290
🇹🇷 Turkey: 277
🇵🇱 Poland: 260
🇦🇪 UAE: 48
🇹🇭 Thailand: 48
🇵🇰 Pakistan: 35
🇮🇳 India: 29
🇵🇭 Philippines: 24
🇮🇩 Indonesia: 20
🇲🇲 Myanmar: 9

According to United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, 2018 data (or last available)

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Top countries by production of wheat:

1.🇨🇳 China: 137.7 million tonnes
2.🇮🇳 India: 107.7
3.🇷🇺 Russia: 104.2
4.🇺🇸 United States: 44.9
5.🇦🇺 Australia: 36.2
6.🇫🇷 France: 34.6
7.🇨🇦 Canada: 34.3
8.🇵🇰 Pakistan: 26.2
9.🇩🇪 Germany: 22.6
10.🇦🇷 Argentina: 22.1

According to FAO, 2022