MoreThanNumbers


Total CGA-BC members at the time of its incorporation in April 1951:
313

CGA-BC members in February 2011:
10,069


Visitors to CGA-BC’s website in 2010:just over
1 million


Maximum number of characters Twitter allows its users for each tweet:
140


Tweets required to send out the complete text of the King James Bible:
30,645


Portion of Canadians aged 35-69 who have an RRSP:
70%

Portion of Canadians aged 18-34 who have one: 
39%


Number of televisions in the United States:
240 million

Number of those that are in bathrooms:
2 million


Amount raised in February 2008 by Republican presidential candidate John McCain for his campaign through traditional fundraising activities:
$11 million


Amount raised that same month by Democratic candidate Barack Obama, who did not attend a single campaign fundraiser and instead relied exclusively on online social networks:
$55 million

Number of cellphone subscribers in India:
545 million

Number of India’s 1.2 billion people who have access to a toilet:
366 million


Total GDP growth in Canada, during the past decade:
19.7%


Total GDP growth in China during the same period:
316%


Canada’s global rank in terms of GDP per capita:
11


China’s global rank in terms of GDP per capita:
93


Global rank of China in terms of tobacco leaf production:
1

Number of smokers in China:
300 million

Number of cigarettes consumed in China every second:
50,000

Number of people in China who die due to smoking each day:
3,000


Number of years it took for the radio to achieve worldwide sales of 50 million:
38


Number of years for the television:
13


Number of years for the iPod:
3


Number of years it took Facebook to achieve 50 million users:
2