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Your support makes all the difference.Percentage of the Himalayas' 15,000 glaciers still remaining in 2035 if they continue thinning and receding at the current rate:
20
Percentage of the world's population living in the Gangetic basin, the rivers of which receive 75 per cent of their water from the Himalayas' glaciers:
10
Percentage of Indonesia's coral reefs "still in good shape":
7
Number of cigarettes produced annually for every person - including children:
1,000
Number of packets of cigarettes, per capita, smoked annually in Greece:
139
Average monthly wage in Bulgaria:
$50
Stipulated minimum hourly wage in Germany:
pounds 6.20
Percentage of public building projects in Berlin for which construction companies are not paid on time:
76
Number of construction companies in Germany going bust every quarter:
350
Number of chief executives treated for sex addiction at the Meadows treatment centre in Wickenburg, Arizona, last year:
500
Chances that a web page viewed in a US home contains sex-related material:
1 in 4
Ranking of Harlem among New York destinations for foreign tourists:
1
Number of tourists arriving every day in the Canary Islands, on average:
11,000
Percentage of computer and automated systems at French nuclear power stations that still need work to guarantee short-term safety from the Y2K bug:
40
Amount paid in Taiwan for the mobile phone number 456789, believed to indicate ever-increasing success:
$2,447
Number of different types of bacteria in the large bowel or colon, almost all of which are always beneficial:
500
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