Worldwide, 133,974,696 babies were born in 2021, according toUNICEF. That's more than 367,000 babies born each day. In 2022, the total number of global births was 133,990,599. Our World in Dataprojects that there will be 134.8 million births worldwide in 2023, an average of about ...
How Trump Tariffs Will Increase Costs Tariffs make foreign goods pricier to protect local industries, but aggressive policies can have negative effects. Aja McClanahanandErica SandbergJan. 31, 2025 Personal Finance Predictions for 2025 From interest rates to inflation, people in the know have ideas ...
Reduce Your Housing Costs in Retirement Housing accounts for more than a third of many seniors’ spending. Here’s how to save. Maryalene LaPonsieJan. 21, 2025 Unemployment and Social Security Here's what to consider when taking unemployment benefits and Social Security payments at the same tim...
Unusually bad weather and short-staffed air traffic control centers–especially around New York–have combined with an air-travel system that has little to no slack left in it to trash the personal and business-travel plans of too many Americans. My own summer travel schedule–lately stuffed ...
Before long, her inbox was flooded with emails from the scholarship companies – but none were offering her scholarships. Instead, she was overwhelmed with marketing emails to the point where she had to create an entirely new email account. While it seemed smart to apply to as many big-money...
Many small electronic devices — like WiFi routers and smartphones — don’t consume much electricity individually. But their combined wattage is substantial.(Source: Parks Associates)Research by consulting firm Parks Associates found that in 2023, the average US home with internet access had 17 ...
In 1990, the average educational attainment for Indigenous peoples was only 2 years and 41% were illiterate [66]. In the USA, approximately 80% of AIANs have completed high school and 15% have bachelor’s degrees or higher; in comparison, 93% of White Americans are high school graduates ...
When Steven Sword was not working the night shift, and Becky Sword was not working the day shift, they were preparing to hand over most of the $60,000 they'd saved for their retirement to the government agency charged with supporting Americans in their old age....
pandemic-era lows. 2024 was a record year, with 53 million more nights spent at tourist accommodations compared to 2023. That's according to Eurostat, which counted nearly three billion nights spent in tourist accommodations during the year.LuxembourgandMalta, in particular, saw double-digit ...
Many people around the globe still struggle to make ends meet. According to theWorld Bank, an estimated 700.6 million people lived in extreme poverty in September 2023.8 It's estimated that more than 40% of the world's population lives in poverty, with the U.S. scoring the worst among deve...