This chart shows the result of (one question) survey conducted by the World Values Survey (WVS) about housing: Do you live with your parents? via chartsbin.com
Web developers fight a constant struggle: They want to use modern web browser features, but they also need to take browser adoption into consideration. If a large portion of their users run older versions...
The French spend longer in retirement than almost anybody else. French women enjoy 28 years as pensioners and French men 24 years, six years more than the OECD average. Americans, by contrast, have...
The latest stats show exactly how many foreign-born citizens live in each country in Europe. See how they comparevia www.guardian.co.uk
The figure is a scanned copy of bar graph of aftershocks following the large quake. Note the tall line at the far left of the chart. That is not the Y axis – that’s the big one. via sciblogs.co.nz
Coalition forces military and police deaths for seven years of the US. military presence in Iraq.via en.rian.ru
The past couple of years have been a financial nightmare for millions of Americans who have lost their jobs or homes (or both) and are struggling under mounting debt. But the reality is that for a segment...
China's economic success has been built on cheap labour. The country’s migrant workforce is the world’s largest. At $0.81 an hour, the cost of Chinese workers is just 2.7% that of their American counterparts...
The world is a big place, but so is the Internet. We know which countries are the largest in the real world, but what about on the Internet? via royal.pingdom.com (download...
Microsoft's unprecedented run of burning money online continued last quarter, as the company had an operating loss of $696 million.via www.businessinsider.com
President Barack Obama meets Britain's prime minister, David Cameron, for talks in Washington on July 20th. The BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and allegations over the company's involvement in an...
Foreign-born labour: Alien invasionsAs economies across the developed world fell into recession in 2008, legal permanent immigration to the mostly rich members of the OECD declined by 6%, after five...
via economist.com How much a country's leader is paid compared to GDP per person?
via economist.com Between 2000 and 2008 health spending per person increased by 4.2% a year on average, according to the latest data from the OECD, a rich countries' club. Health-care spending...
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