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Originally Posted by BRISK
In China last year BScs in engineering represented 46% of all university degrees; in America, it was 5%
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Yeah lol the stats downt he bottom are scary:
· If Wal-Mart was a country, it would now be China's eighth-biggest trading partner, ahead of Russia, Australia and Canada
· UPS ships 13.5 million packages a day - which means that at any given moment, 2% of the world's GDP is in the back of a UPS delivery truck
· When multinationals 'outsource' work to developing countries, they typically not only save 75% on wages, but also gain a 100% increase in productivity
· Advances in fibre optics will soon allow cables to carry 48 terabits of data per second - enough capacity to enable all the printed material in the world to be transmitted via a single cable in minutes
· One hundred and fifty years ago 90% of Americans worked in agriculture; today, the figure is about 3% (top right)
· Google now processes approximately 1 billion searches a day
· Last year, of the 2.8 million science degrees awarded around the world, 1.2 million were gained by Asian students in Asian universities
· UPS's fleet of 270 aircraft makes it the 11th largest airline in the world
· In China last year BScs in engineering represented 46% of all university degrees; in America, it was 5%
· eBay now has 105 million registered users from 190 countries, trading more than £35bn of goods annually