Fact Attack cites a number is factoids from The Economist:
- The 4.9% of families in America with net worth of $1 million or more accounted for 42% of all donations to charitable organizations.
- In rural Peru, 24% of young women say they lost their virginity to a rapist. In rural Uttar Pradesh (in India), 83% of married women surveyed said that before they moved in with their husbands, they didn’t know how women become pregnant.
- Average life expectency in Zimbabwe has plunged from 61 years in 1990 to 34 years today. AIDS is the most important cause of this decline.