Some people recommended naming this “Who Are the Laziest People?” It actually shows the number of steps that a person living in a country makes per day. The data was collected using a special fitness application and more than 700,000 people took part in the study.
It turned out that the most active people live in Hong Kong — they take 6,880 steps per day and the least active people live in Indonesia, taking only 3,513 steps.
The studies of the giraffe genome showed that there are 4 kinds of giraffes and every single one of them has a special color that also indicates its origin.
The price of petrol is shown in euros. The data was collected for February 2018. The lowest price is in Venezuela. In Russia, petrol costs less than in any other European country. The most expensive petrol can be found in Hong Kong, Iceland, Senegal, and Mali.
The lowest salaries were found in Azerbaijan and Ukraine (less than $300), the highest were found in Denmark, Norway, Luxemburg, Iceland, and Switzerland (more than $3,000).
According to Forbes, in 2018, in countries such as Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, Montenegro, Albania, Macedonia, Bulgaria, and Moldavia, there are no billionaires.
In Luxemburg, there is not a single registered billionaire, but there are 17 guests. You can easily find a billionaire in Switzerland, Monaco, Ireland, Denmark, Norway, and Sweden.
The population of our planet has grown by 1.5 billion people since 2000. According to scientists, at the same pace by 2039, there will be 8.5 billion people on Earth.
The population of Japan has been decreasing for several years now because women have been choosing careers over family and are less likely to get married and have children.
In Nigeria, on the contrary, since 1960 the population has grown 4 times. Here, people want to have big families. And in the northern part of the country, men often live with several wives and every wife wants to have as many children as possible in order to be the top woman of the family.
Teenagers ages 15 and older as well as adult people were the ones counted.
For the European part of Russia, it’s −74° F. And the warmest Januaries were in Portugal and Ireland.
When making the ratings, the following indicators were used:
- power consumption per capitaIn Europe, the most toxic countries are Bulgaria, Luxemburg, and Bosnia and Herzegovina. In Asia, they are Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Iran, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE. Also included were Trinidad and Tobago in central America, and Libya in Africa.
The blue spot in Canada is the Alberta province. In the 1950s, the local authorities implemented a rat population control program: a perimeter was closed off and there were special people that spread the rat poison. And even if rats do find a way to get into the territory of Alberta, they won’t be able to find a warm place for a comfortable life because of the low temperatures and low population.
It is known that in 1959, 600 rats were found and killed and in 2007 only 2; and in 2014, only 4. And in 2003 and 2016, there were no rats at all.
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