Old and Older

Japan has eclipsed Italy as the nation with the world’s highest percentage of old people. Life expectancy is 78 for Japanese men and 85 for Japanese women.

Dunkin Donuts in Boston

There’s one Dunkin’ outlet for every 6,500 residents in Boston. (SOURCE: Fortune Magazine)

Connection Anxiety

1 of 3 executives in a recent survey who say they spend too much time connected to work through mobile devices like BlackBerries. But 3 of 4 say that overall, constant connection improves “work-life balance”.

It’s in the game

$730 million is the projected size of the videogame ad market (that is, ads inside the game) by 2010. Today the market is$55 million. But Electronic Arts, which just signed an ad deal, now brings its Madden NFL2007 (first week sales of $100 million) to the table. (SOURCE: Fortune Magazine)

Artificial Heart

$250,000 is the cost of a fully implantable artificial heart approved last week by the FDA for use in up to 4,000 people with severe congestive heart failure.

The device weighs 2 lbs, which makes it an option only for men and large women.

5.2 is the average number of months the first 12 recipients survived with the device.

(SOURCE: Time Magazine)

Total Number of Dinosaur Species

1,844 is the number of dinosaur species that ever existed, as estimated by a University of Pennsylvania paleontologist and a Swarthmore statistician.

527 is the total number of dinosaur species that have been discovered so far.

(SOURCE: Time Magazine)

Unpaid taxes and their collection

24% is the commission the IRS will pay private collection agencies for recovering unpaid taxes.

$345 billion is the estimated unpaid federal taxes in 2001, the last year for which the data was available.

(SOURCE: Time Magazine)

Birth Numbers

1.77 is the newborn-mortality rate per 1,000 babies delivered by voluntary caesarean section, according to a study of 6 million U.S. births.

0.62 is the newborn-mortality rate oer 1,000 vaginal births.

29.1% of U.S. births by C-section in 2004, up from 20.7% in 1996.

(SOURCE: Time Magazine)

Oldest ever child

3.3 million is the age in years of a skeleton of a 3-year-old girl recently unearthed in Ethiopia. The remains are thought to the oldest even found of a child. (SOURCE: Time Magazine)

Reef from tires?

2 million tired were dumped by Florida officials into the Atlantic in 1972 to seed an atificial reef, which never formed. The loose tires are now damaging real coral reefs (SOURCE: Time Magazine)