The Statistics Of How We Spent 2012

A lot happened this year. For better or worse, we dug up the data on what the people of the world did in 2012.

141 Million Of Us Were Born...

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140.5 million people were born in 2012. So. Many. Babies.

...And 56 Million Died.

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56.2 million people died this year...at least they stayed down.

We Blinked 36 Quadrillion Times...

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That's 36,000,000,000,000,000. Or 5.3 million per person. Or a shitload.

...Had 10 Trillion Dreams...

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On average, human beings have 5 dreams per night.

...Produced 2.6 Trillion Pounds of Garbage...

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In 2012, the world produced 2.6 trillion pounds of garbage. 490 billion pounds came from the USA and 9 billion pounds came from NYC. It's the equivalent of 7 million Empire State Buildings.

...And Spent 309 Million Years Spent Sitting on the Toilet.

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309,242,222 Years. The average person will spend about 3 years of their life sitting on the toilet. Though for some, that's still not enough.

We Spent 11 Million Years on The Internet...

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In 2012, the world's population spent a combined 11.8 million years surfing the web. One more time, 11.8 MILLION YEARS!

...2.8 Million Years on Social Media...

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Almost 25% of all time spent on the internet was on Social Media Sites

...2.1 Million Years on Facebook...

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Facebook is by far the most-widely used social media site. About 76% of all time spent on social media sites was spent on Facebook.

...4,350 Years on BuzzFeed...

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...And Left a Trail of 13x More Bits of Information Than There Are Grains of Sand on the Earth.

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That's quite the digital paper trail. This year, we collected 1 zetabyte of data (37% of all the digital data that's ever been collected). That's 10^21 bytes, or 9.44 x 10^21 0s and 1s, which is 13x more than the number of grains of sand on the earth.

We Bought 717 Million Smartphones...

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We bought 717 million smartphones. A recent study shows that there are now more than 1 Billion active smartphone users world-wide.

...349 Million Computers...

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...And 62 Million Cars.

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We Sent 53 Trillion Emails...

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This turns out to be about 144.8 Billion Per Day. I wonder how many of those were spam?

...100 Trillion Tweets...

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This translates into about 400 million per day or 5,000 tweets per second.

...And Uploaded 38 Million Hours of Video to YouTube.

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YouTube's Press Statistics state that 72 hours of video are uploaded each minute.

219 Million of Us Watched The Olympics...

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219 million Americans watched the olympics this year which is slightly higher than the 215 million that watched the 2008 games in Beijing.

...111 Million Watched The Super Bowl...

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111.3 million people people watched the Giants defeat The Patriots this year.

...191 Million Watched The Presidential Debates...

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191 million people tuned in across all 3 Presidential Debates involving Romney and Obama this year.

...And 119 Million Actually Voted.

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119 million estimated voters participated in this year's presidential election.

..And YOLO Was Said 5 Trillion Times

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You should all be ashamed of yourselves. Especially you... Drake.