• Most Zambians don’t live to see their 40th birthday.
  • On the probability of not reaching 40 graph, the top 34 countries are all African.
  • In Botswana, more than one in three adults aged 15-49 are infected with HIV/AIDS.
  • More than half of all doctors in Finland are female
  • You can be imprisoned for not voting in Fiji, Chile and Egypt - at least in theory.
  • The eight most developed countries all speak Germanic languages.
  • 72% of people in Mali earn less than $1 per day.
  • 41% world’s poor people live in India.
  • The ten most generous countries are all in Europe.
  • The United States has the world’s highest number of McDonald’s restaurants per capita.
  • Members of the armed forces and the police cannot vote in the Dominican Republic.
  • Libya is the only country with a single-coloured flag.
  • Libya’s full name is the Great Socialist People’s Libyan Arab Jamahiriya.
  • Australians are the most likely to join charities, educational organizations, environmental groups, professional organizations, sports groups and unions. But only three percent join political parties.
  • Canadians drink more fruit juice than the citizens of any other nation - more than one litre each, every week.