Some random numbers

Video ads

2010-10-01T12:04:00.000-07:00

wow... 10.7% of all videos watched online were ads.

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2370014,00.asp

Mobile Stats

2010-06-30T10:26:00.000-07:00

http://techcrunch.com/2010/06/30/admob-android-apple/

Very cool...

Numbers about google....

2010-03-03T21:15:00.001-08:00

http://royal.pingdom.com/2010/02/24/google-facts-and-figures-massive-infographic/

Suicides...

2009-11-13T12:33:00.000-08:00

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aquBCzT7ZMLs&pos=9

Number of people commiting suicides in US - 19.2 per 100,000

in us army - 20.2 per 100,000

Facebook stats...

2009-09-20T21:07:00.000-07:00

Long time no see... got busy in real life. Back to normal stuff.

Some facebook facts...

http://www.facebook.com/press/info.php?statistics

Most watched videos....

2009-07-09T22:10:00.000-07:00

Not professionally produced but consumer produced - 43%

http://advancingthestory.wordpress.com/2009/07/09/more-intel-on-web-video/

How many people does it take to do US census

2009-07-02T09:45:00.000-07:00

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aAOpY6z2k1c0

The U.S. Census Bureau has said it will hire more than 1.4 million people over the next year to conduct the population count that happens once every 10 years.

State revenues/expenditure...

2009-06-18T23:27:00.000-07:00

Lots of good numbers related to state revenues/expenditure

http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/2009-06-18-State_Revenue_Flash.pdf

How many ppl get killed in hospitals due to human errors...

2009-06-16T09:19:00.000-07:00

In 1999 it was in the range - 44000 to 98000

http://www.iom.edu/Object.File/Master/4/117/ToErr-8pager.pdf

Why health care cost keeps rising....

2009-06-16T09:14:00.000-07:00

PWC gives some numbers - http://www.ahip.org/redirect/TheFactorsFuelingRisingHealthcareCosts2006.pdf

http://www.wellpoint.com/pdf/Premium%20Cost%20Drivers.pdf

Stats about US small businesses

2009-06-14T00:59:00.000-07:00

From http://web.sba.gov/faqs/faqIndexAll.cfm?areaid=24

• Represent 99.7 percent of all employer firms.
• Employ about half of all private sector employees.
• Pay nearly 45 percent of total U.S. private payroll.
• Have generated 60 to 80 percent of net new jobs annually over the last decade.
• Create more than half of nonfarm private gross domestic product (GDP).
• Hire 40 percent of high tech workers (such as scientists, engineers, and computer
workers).
• Are 52 percent home-based and 2 percent franchises.
• Made up 97.3 percent of all identified exporters and produced 28.9 percent of the known
export value in FY 2006.
• Produce 13 times more patents per employee than large patenting firms; these patents are twice as likely as large firm patents to be among the one percent most cited.

Number of credit cards in US

2009-06-14T00:35:00.000-07:00

From http://www.reuters.com/article/ousiv/idUSN1139585720090611

365 Million as compared to 440 Million last year.

Chocolate consumption india....

2009-06-08T23:14:00.000-07:00

Less than half of the 1.1B people in india have ever tasted chocolate.

Cadbury holds ~70% chocolate market, nestle 25%

Size of indian chocolate market $465M, Britian $4.89B.

Cadbury imports 50% of its cocoa needs

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124440401582092071.html

tax efilings in india..

2009-06-07T21:12:00.000-07:00

http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2009/06/04/stories/2009060451740100.htm

Health care statistics...

2009-05-02T02:36:00.000-07:00

http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/ has lots of stats

To get you started, read the executive summary for 08 - http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hus/hus08.pdf#executivesummary

- Overall, private health insurance paid 36% of total personal health care expenditures in 2006, the federal government 35%, state and local governments 10%, and out-of-pocket payments 15%

- An estimated 44 million people or 17% of Americans under 65 years of age did not have health insurance coverage at the time they were interviewed in 2006

- In 2005, the United States devoted 15% of its GDP to health compared with 12% in Switzerland, the country with the next highest share

- Expenditures for hospital care accounted for 31% of all national health expenditures in 2006. Physician and clinical services accounted for 21% of the total in 2006, prescription drugs for 10%, and nursing home care for 6%