Demographics Facts

There are approximately 1,319,872,109 people on the Internet.

'Jedi' is an official religion, with over 70,000 followers, in Australia.

There are more than 150 million sheep in Australia, and only some 20 million people.

One of every 8 married couples in the US last year met online.

You share your birthday with at least 9 other million people in the world.

If Manhattan had the same population density as Alaska, only about 30 people would live there.

The most common first name in the world for males is Muhammad (and its various spellings)!

In 2005, 25 percent of Americans over the age of 50 played video games, a dramatic increase from just nine percent in 1999.

Every three seconds, a new baby is born.

There are more telephones than people in Washington, D.C.

Niger (Africa) has the world's highest fertility rate - 7.1 children per mother.

Denmark has twice as many pigs as there are people.

Roughly a quarter of the world's people live in China.

More than half the population of Kenya is under the age of 15.

Suicide is the leading cause of death among South Koreans in their 20s and 30s.

Washington, D.C. has one lawyer for every 19 residents!

There are about 255 babies born worldwide every minute.

One percent of Greenland's population lives in a single apartment building!

The word 'Indiana' is Native American for 'Land of the Indians', yet less than 16,000 Native Americans live there.

Sheep outnumber humans in New Zealand 15 to 1.

Next to Warsaw, Chicago has the largest Polish population in the world.

Only 2% of the Earth's population are natural redheads.

According to U.S. Census data, there are several hundred Americans with 'Lol' as their legal first name.

Roughly 90% of the world's population live in the northern hemisphere.