STATISTICAL FACTS 

40% of American adults believe in the theory of evolution.

A survey, published in The New York Times, states that 47% of dog owners in America sleep with their dogs.

According to the Gallup poll, in 2009, 77% of Americans claim Christianity as their religion (down from 91% in 1948).

The age with the highest number of children in the foster system is 16 (42,272 out of the 510,000 are 16-year olds).

The top 4 types of child maltreatment in 2007 were the following: 59.0 percent were neglected, 10.8 percent were physically abused, 7.6 percent were sexually abused, and 4.2 percent were psychologically abused.

According to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in 2007, there were 35,962 diagnosed with AIDS. This brings the total number of AIDS diagnoses in the US and the district of Colombia to 1,018,428.

National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) estimated the cost for alcohol abuse in the United States in 1998 to be $184,636 millions (the cost includes healthcare and prevention treatments, loss of productivity and earnings, crime and crashes).




G.K. Elio