Only eight Indians out of every thousand own a car, compared with about 750 per thousand in the U.S. Per-capita income is up 8.4% over last year, an improvement over that year's 7.4% gain over the year before.
So-called health inflation has meant that spending on health care now represents 16% of all economic activity in the U.S. On a per-capita basis, the U.S. spends about twice as much as most other industrialized economies without garnering any tangible effects on health or longevity.
He says it is also uncommon for an IT chief to even sit on a board, something that's backed up by a recent survey, which showed that just five per cent of U.S. companies and seven per cent of European companies have a CIO in an executive position.
Remember that the U.S. GDP is still nearly three times that of China, and U.S. GDP per capita is more than 10 times more.
In addition, according to the U.S. Energy Information Agency, the U.S. has reduced its energy consumption per unit of GDP by nearly 50% since 1980 and 20% since 1999.
Since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, energy consumption per person in the U.S. has crept ahead at 3% per year.
Mindray generates more U.S. patents per revenue dollar than many global leaders.
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It is offering hydro-powered electricity at a very cheap rate: two U.S. cents per kilowatt-hour compared to four cents in the United States and seven cents in Germany.
For more than two decades, soda was the No. 1 drink in the U.S. with per capita consumption peaking in 1998 at 54 gallons a year, according industry tracker Beverage Digest.
But if the Australian dollar falls to levels more in line with historical norms, of around 80 U.S. cents per Australian dollar, US Masters' investors will earn 30% more in profits when the fund sells its homes.
That number, which doesn't include users who log on through smartphones, still puts Venezuela on the level of countries such as the U.S., U.K. and Canada, per capita.
China has approximately 52 automobiles per 1K people, while the U.S. and Europe have approximately 457 automobiles per 1K people.
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Fewer than five per cent of chief information officers (CIOs) in the U.S. and less than seven per cent in Europe sit on a company board, according to a recent survey.
Here are some facts: pre-vaccination, whooping cough caused 9000 deaths per year in the U.S. Post-vaccine, this has dropped to 20 deaths per year.
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South Africa is one of the world's most violent nations, with eight times the proportionate murder rate per day of the U.S., a rape every ten minutes and 2, 642 carjackings a year in Johannesburg alone.
That was the lowest point for U.S. auto sales per capita since World War II.
U.S. and Russian per-person emissions that year were 22 and 15 tons, respectively.
What is interesting is that iPads generate 80% of tablet Internet traffic in the U.S. and Canada per Chitika Insights.
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Industry-wide in the U.S., revenue per available room was up 6% in the 28 days ending October 15, according to Smith Travel Research.
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The U.S. spends more per pupil than any other country yet these pupils frequently rank in the bottom 20% on international math and science tests.
If you look within the U.S. health spending per capita, it varies among regions as much as health spending per capita among nations in the OECD.
The Central Bank of Egypt said Tuesday that the Egyptian pound was trading at 6.20 per U.S. dollar compared to 6.00 during the first half of the year.
U.S. coffee consumption per capita has fallen steadily since 1962.
According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, the energy intensity of China in 2005, the most recent year for which data are available, was 35, 766 British thermal units per U.S. dollar.
The island nation uses 4, 500 BTUs per U.S. dollar of gross domestic product, a measure known as "energy intensity, " the world standard for measuring how efficient an economy is at using energy.
Much of the rest of the islands' productive acreage is used as pastureland for sheep and cattle, whose flatulence helps explain greenhouse gas emissions triple those of the U.S. on a per capita basis.
In addition to this, the proposed regulations have set a solar power tariff at a rate of 5.45 rupees, or 10 U.S. cents, per kilowatt hour, which is comparable to conventional coal-generated power to make it affordable to the state utilities that are paying for the power, Mr. Kapoor said.
Of particular note is the observation by Airbus engineers that by optimizing technology (much of which is available now), flights in Europe and the U.S. could reduce per-trip flight time by 13 minutes, which worldwide would save approximately nine million tons of fuel annually, avoid over 28 million tons of CO2 emissions and cut five million hours from travel time aloft.
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The Wall Street consensus is 73 cents per share, up 9% from a year ago when U.S. Bancorp reported earnings of 67 cents per share.
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