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Multiple indices measure “worst” human‑rights records for different purposes; for worker rights the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) lists Bangladesh, Belarus, Ecuador, Egypt, Eswatini, ...
Tetanus is now rare in high‑income countries but remains a preventable killer worldwide: global reported deaths fell to under ~35,000 by 2019 and confirmed global case counts have fallen by orders of ...
Available sources show that France on the eve of 1789 had extremely concentrated wealth—some accounts put the top 10% owning about 90% of national wealth and the top 1% about 60%—whereas modern measur...
Best-available public analyses show a troubling rise in U.S. excess deaths from 2017 through 2024: a pre‑pandemic gap already evident in 2017, a massive spike during 2020–2021, and persistently elevat...
Global plastic production in 2024–2025 is roughly 400–445 million tonnes per year and most of that waste is not recycled: about 9% recycled, roughly half goes to landfill globally, and around a quarte...
The United States records roughly 1,500 knife homicides per year, meaning knife killings are a minority of U.S. homicides while firearms dominate U.S. lethal violence — firearms account for about 79–8...
Tobacco use causes the vast majority of deaths: authoritative sources estimate roughly deaths worldwide each year from tobacco, including more than deaths annually in the United States . Vaping‑specif...
The documents provided do not state a single, up-to-date percentage for the share of the global population that has received at least one COVID-19 vaccine dose; instead, they point readers toward data...
A complete, per-capita accounting of gun-related deaths exists in international datasets but cannot be sensibly printed in full here; authoritative compilations include the UNODC-derived Our World in ...
Freedom House’s 2025 "Freedom in the World" reporting shows the United States is no longer among the very top-scoring democracies; Visual Capitalist summarizes that “53 countries are considered more f...
The deadliest single-day terrorist attack since 1970 remains the September 11, 2001 strikes that killed about 2,990 people, and the largest recent mass-casualty Islamist events include October 7, 2023...
Global tallies of people who have received COVID-19 vaccinations vary by data source and timeframe, and the materials provided do not converge on a single, up-to-date global headcount. is presented as...
Liberal democracy combines free, competitive elections with constitutional limits on government and protected civil liberties: expert datasets and encyclopedias list features such as free and fair ele...
Tetanus can be fatal: global and clinical studies report case-fatality rates ranging widely—from about 10% in some summaries to as high as nearly 100% for neonatal tetanus in settings without intensiv...
Official, confirmed COVID-19 death counts vary by source: global tallies of confirmed deaths are about 7.1 million as of early December 2025 (Wikipedia’s pandemic-deaths aggregation) . Independent exc...
Global reporting in 2023 shows wide variation in COVID-19 vaccination by metric: some countries led the world on cumulative doses per 100 people (Cuba was cited near the top with ~391 doses/100 by Mar...
Cuba entered the 20th century as one of Latin America’s relatively prosperous economies and by 1958 had a reported per‑capita GDP of $2,363, “in the middle of Latin American countries” . Scholarly rec...
Available sources do not give a single agreed scientific “hard cap” on how many children a woman can biologically bear; demographic measures report averages (total fertility rate ≈2.2–2.3 globally in ...
The Authoritarian Threat/Threat to Democracy indexes are expert-driven composite measures that track signals of democratic backsliding; Protect Democracy’s Authoritarian Threat Index currently lists t...
The United States does register among the higher end of police-per-capita measures compared with many developed countries, and it also spends a large share of resources on policing , yet clear weaknes...