American Statistics

1. Crime: America's safest city, Brick Township, NJ Key stat: 55.9 incidents of crime per 100,000 residents.This small city near the Jersey shore recorded the lowest rate of violent crime of any town of 75,000 residents or more, according to Morgan Quitno Press, an independent research publisher in Lawrence, Kansas, which used FBI statistics in its analysis. More than a million vehicles were reported stolen by law enforcement agencies in the U.S. every year, yet most adults leave their car doors unlocked. Easy target for theives- 55% door unlocked, 34% windows open, and 6% key in cars USA: 8 million illegal immigrants estimated to be in the United States, about 400,000 have been identified and ordered deported. (Sep 18,2003 report) USA: Identity stolen of nearly 1 in 8 adults-more than 27 million people have been victims of identity theft during the last five years, the Federal Trade Commission reports. In 2002, 9.9 million people were victims of identity theft, costing them $5 billion and businesses and financial institutions almost $48 billion 2. Health & Mortality Dec. 01, 2006: Minnesota was deemed the healthiest U.S. state for the fourth year in a row. States making the most improvement in the past year were Illinois, Ohio, Wisconsin and Kansas, the report found, while those with the biggest declines were New Mexico, Idaho and West Virginia. Since 1990, America is a healthier place but from year 2000 dramatic increase in obesity, a rising number of Americans -- 46.6 million in a country of 300 million -- without health insurance, and smoking by 21 percent of U.S. adults More than 15 percent of Americans ages 6-19 are overweight. Mortality Rate of Accidents - Two deaths per 10,000 vehicle accidents in the US. According to the US Department of Labour, taxi driving is the most dangerous job in the country as these drivers are 60 times more likely than other workers to be killed on the job 3. Education & Technology USA, in 2003, 23 million households had high-speed access, up from 16 million the year before US Census Bureau report says 66.7 per cent of Asian households in the US have Internet access as against 59.9 per cent white households and 36 per cent each of Hispanic and African-American segments. More than two thirds of Americans use the Internet and 90% of all Internet users have e-mail. 80% check e-mail every day, and 50% check every week 4. Business and Global Online travel to reach $71 bln by 2006 40% of U.S. households are expected to own at least one digital camera by the end of 2004 In 2003, Sino-US trade amounted to over $180 billion, while Indo-American trade was a mere $18 billion. A record 51 million international visitors came to the USA every year , the second-most visited country in the world behind France's 75 million foreign tourists; Canada and Mexico continue to provide about half the USA's visitors. Nearly $2 billion worth of trade crosses the Canada-U.S. border every day, and Canada-Mexico trade is worth $15 billion a year It's estimated that $1 billion US in trade crosses the Canada-U.S. border every day. In the year 2004, US government provided $2.4 billion in food and cash and humanitarian relief ... That's 40 percent of all the relief aid given in the world last year. 5. American Society USA: According to the survey, 60 percent of singles aged 40-69 are women, a majority of them divorced. Forty-two percent of the men and 24 percent of the women had never been married . USA: At the beginning of the twentieth century the divorce rate in America was under ten percent. By 2005 the divorce rate was just under fifty percent according to the 2004 American Community Survey by the U.S. Census Bureau. USA: Of the 293.66 million people in the US, 95.81 million (32.6%) are non-whites or Hispanic In USA. USA: Average American household income around $42,000 a year but a credit-card debt in 2001 skyrocketed, topping $8234 per household USA: Last year, about 1.56 million people filed for personal bankruptcy, compared with 875,000 a decade earlier. In 2003, bankruptcy filings peaked at 1.63 million.